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I like to think that here at Videogum, we maintain a very healthy and respectful relationship with our readers. We do our best not to pander or condescend to you. Sometimes you agree with us and sometimes you disagree with us, but you can always trust that we will be honest and forthcoming with our opinions on the latest baby panda farting on a roller-coaster videos, and that we encourage the same respectful criticism and debate in the comments section, no matter where you stand on whether or not the baby panda should go to jail for being the worst.
We’re not here to make friends.
So it’s really upsetting to see other media outlets (we’re a media outlet now, I just decided) treating their audience less respectfully. I strongly believe that you should just put out good work and trust that your audience will find it and enjoy it, and that you should refrain from blatantly pandering to people just to juke your stats. It doesn’t matter who you’re trying to cater to, or how broad your appeal, a cheap lie is a cheap lie is a cheap lie. And it’s in that same spirit of incredulous disdain for laziness and dishonesty that I find MTV News’s announcement of their Woman of the Year to be one of the most hilariously inane teen-baiting fake outs that I’ve ever seen.
2008′s Woman of the Year, according to MTV News, is…
TWILIGHT FANS?!!?!!??!
I’m sorry, but this is the hackiest, most condescending year end list decision since Time magazine’s December 2006 issue. SINCE TIME MAGAZINE’S DECEMBER 2006 ISSUE!!
Twilight fans. Right. Because they achieved and accomplished so much, and are such inspirations to other women, and because they totally encapsulate the spirit of that one weekend where they went really crazy.
Fuck you, MTV News. You’re an idiot.
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All will be forgiven if their “Man of the Year” is all the men who filmed themselves dancing to “Single Ladies”.
But it’s obviously going to be Obama.
Don’t forget an honorable mention to all the men singing “If I Were A Boy” (caveats included).
first they won’t let Gay men get married… and now they’re saying their love of teen vampires isn’t as strong as women’s…. women’s of the year… also- does MTV news watch 30 Rock? ah no.
Wow…gotta love a host who makes it seem that the *biggest* competition to “Twilight fans” in this auspicious award was Britney? Really – really MTV, seriously?! Because clearly there were no better role models or inspiring women this year…they were absent from everything that went on.
Gideon Yago must be rolling in his grave.
“Blood Sucking Emo Vampires In Love.” Wow. Poetry.
Still a better choice than Sarah Palin.
summer heights high!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9u3ql4abG4I
Good job Twilight fans! Now that you’re woman of the year you can look forward to a lifetime of unfulfilled relationships with men who aren’t sexy flawless vampires and sometimes have other interests than you!! Carry on writing that fan fiction where the dude vampire dumps that Bella chick for you, keep the dream alive!
Wow, I think doozy proves that MTV has nothing but contempt for womankind in general.
Twilight fans are the worst.
MTV News exalts the worst.
Every time I see news about “Twilight”, or other crap, and feel I’m going to have an emotional outburst I remind myself:
“I am not the target audience for this tripe and no one can force me to consume it. Nobody cares and the world is unfair. I sleep the sleep of angels.”
See, Ricky’s??? This is what happens when you sell too many Slutty Vampire costumes to teenagers! Hordes of Women of the Year!!!!
And the obvious choice is Palin, MTV. You trippin’.
Holy shit, did anyone else get a “Dulcolax” commercial before the clip played? Yeah… Dulcolax. “It doesn’t make you go, it just makes it easier.” WHAT THE HELL MTV? WHAT IS YOUR TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC?
Thanks Twilight fans and MTV for making it that much harder for women to be taken seriously.
Epic fail MTV News. Epic fail Twilight fans. Epic fail for all womankind.
A shitty choice for Woman of the Year deserves a shitty response.