Wednesday, April 20, 2022

On Carpet Posing & Glass Ceilings

 

How well do you suppose a carpet pose like this would work to celebrate a 57-year-old woman/female/genetically determined-XX person's promotion in the corporate world?   

10 comments:

MamaM said...

Powerline was where I first encountered this, unclear as to what the NYT was trying to convey.

Daily Mail also has a piece up on it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10736101/New-York-Times-editor-Joe-Kahn-mocked-online-seductive-announcement-photoshoot.html

If it was a woman taking that position, I'd wonder if she'd used her wiles to sleep her way into the promotion, or fell back to the floor when she hit the glass ceiling?

edutcher said...

I suppose, if you're a guy who defines as a girl, it's supposed to make you look cool.

anne clarke said...

happy to here about it  

Some Seppo said...

They forgot to include SPAM in those sexy Tinder pics of the new guy.

ampersand said...

William Shatner's not happy.

Trooper York said...

Maybe he wanted to signal that he is a carpet muncher.

ampersand said...

With that pose? More of a pillow biter.

MamaM said...

Someone's punking someone, but it's not clear who's the target:

-Middle aged women yearning for a safe, seemingly suave yet playful companion to confirm their thinking?
-Wealthy younger moms, Karens, and single career women who want an authority figure they can relate to--one that brings to mind Dad or Grandpa sitting on the floor with them, chatting and reading his newspaper, while they played with their Barbies?
-Gay men who think it's funny and cute?

I don't know of a man in my sphere who'd find this picture and pose anything but odd. In my view, women who fall for it are stupidly being played one more time.

Who sits on the floor in their dark dress pants, wearing a buttoned up shirt and tie, reading a paper newspaper these days?

It's hard to believe someone with editing power thought this was a good idea.

Some kind of messaging is definitely being deployed.

edutcher said...

MamaM said...

Wealthy younger moms, Karens, and single career women who want an authority figure they can relate to--one that brings to mind Dad or Grandpa sitting on the floor with them, chatting and reading his newspaper, while they played with their Barbies?

I've always said, scratch a feminut and you'll find Daddy's Little Girl.

Amartel said...

It looks like he's LARPing Katherine Hepburn. (I thought the pants were a skirt.)
If that's your Daddy, I just feel sorry for you.