Oooh! A new topic! Oh, wait...

You're becoming a one-horse cart.

Our top stories tonight:

Sexuality is sexist!

Dog bites man!

And so it goes!

Much to my surprise, they all seem to be hot.

Of course not, Erica!

Page 3 girls are always hot.

beats a flickr set of a bunch of fat attention starved hipsters at a pride parade.

Seriously, as if The Stranger never objectifies the sexually attractive? Maybe ECB should start her own feminist blog. Oh wait...

Nothing to see here.

This has to be intentional self-parody on ECB's part.

@1: Fuck you, sock puppet.

As for the question of the contestants' hotness or notness, I have carefully reviewed the photographs and I am pleased to answer, "hot." If all rather depressingly on the skinny side.

Well, they are in a pool. So the bikini is apropriate.

Does Erica wear a bikini? I bet she looks hot in it.

Erica where was your outrage at the wet t-shirt picso n slog last week? Oh, I forget. You are farsighted.

In other news, really class ad bank in the back pages of your paper.

I hope it IS page 3 girls. They are hot.

my word, a poll that ranks beauty contestants by their beauty. what will they think of next?

As @4 pointed out, they all generally seem to fall into the "hot" category. Thus I don't get the point of the voting.

I suppose it is very bad of them to post stuff on their website to attract customers and make money and stuff. The more I think of it the angrier I get. What's next? An editorial in favor of "message" t-shirts?

Lindsey Bluth is probably spinning in her grave.

Yeah, I want to second the call for Page 3 girls. Hey, and we could do Page 4 guys as well, right? Think of the gay / bi / straight female readers.

erica's right. how cheap. these women should be appreciated for their...um...intellectual capacities and, um...

Hey thanks for the tip - I am always looking for pictures of hot girls on the internet ever since my neighbor stole my binoculars and flashlight.

@5 -- alas, that isn't true. In fact, Page 3 girls, while always ultra-chesty, are rarely very hot at all. They're English, you see. And all they ever eat is chips. And when they turn thirty, their ankles will thicken, and they'll start wearing slippers and a housecoat to the store, and they'll look like they're sixty. But even now, when they're eighteen, they exude fry oil from every pore.

Erica, there's an ad on Slog (it's on my screen right now!) for Hump with a man (dirty, evil man) with a woman literally hanging on him while she licks his neck and he grabs her hair. And we're supposed to be offended by what, now?

OK, I'm done voting. Voted no on most of them. Too damn skinny. Their heads look too big for their bodies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12373649@N03/1284642173/

Hot or not?

What weirds me out about this contest is that almost all the contestants are super white. The contestant from India has to be the palest person i have ever seen.

I may be imagining it, but it seems, the more you guys whine/attack, the more ECB posts. So, keep it up, goofballs.

@22 - I'd hit it

Exactly @24, she's obviously being a completely neurotic bitch just to generate more slog traffic. That's how pathetic the Stranger really is.

I think it's hilarious how much some of you people infer from a post consisting entirely of one statement of fact.

@24: You say that like it's a bad thing.

24 - so then it's win-win! or am i the only one who finds the cycle of outrage incredibly entertaining?

@22 mediocre. head and cheeks appear proportionally larger than the small framed body which triggers a gentically framed revulsion. Hips seem lateral toward the apex and unsuitable for easy birthing. But... ehhh, I'd take my chances after a couple drinks.

..hey erica..@27 don't act like we don't know you, mmmkay ?

@27 - well, let's see. Considering that nearly all of your Slog posts express some kind of outrage at something or someone, and a good portion of those posts deal with (real or perceived) sexism, misogyny, and/or the objectification of women, what are they supposed to infer from a post like this? C'mon, it's not hilarious, it's eminently predictable.

@27 - call it an educated inference.

In related news, PI dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century by HotOrNot ...

But they had a previous version of this where you could vote Yes or No on a pic as well, which is then used for Most Recommended stats for a Weeks Top Pics.

and @9 FTW ...

ECB: Your post wasn't just a statement of a fact - you tagged on "What's next? Page 3 girls?" And even if you hadn't, the frequency of your sexism posts makes people comment on them as a whole, not just on whichever specific example you're currently on (which you are occasionally dead right on, like this current example, in my opinion). And really, I think you must realize that posting 35 times a day on sexism will make people think you're repetitive and reactionary, and therefore I think you must be doing it for the traffic. Which means I fell into your trap.

@22, Annie Wagner is hotter.

@36 (and others) - It seems like many people suspect that ECB (plus Charles and Josh) do these posts for the traffic, but I'm not sure I understand. How would/does this benefit the Slog writers?

And if it does somehow benefit the Slog or its writers, wouldn't that mean that ECB is exploiting these women for her own gain?

The Sunshine Girls are closer to home:
http://calsun.canoe.ca/SUNshineGirl/home.html

@ 25 re: 22...I'd hit all of them. Sandeep is borderline, but I gotta be honest. It wouldn't take a lot to convince me.

Also, ECB @ 27: Nice one. See, you really can be funny if you just give it a little effort.

Now about that sexy red v-neck...

fnarf!

how do you know an essex girl's had an orgasm?

Perhaps they are hoping this will help prop up plunging newspaper readership. Perhaps it will. What's Erica's business plan -- reprint articles from the Socialist Worker?

By the way, I don't approve of John Wurster posting that photograph. I think he should have posted this one instead.

@36: Dude. Seriously, knock it off. While I appreciate your eloquence on my behalf, 'Greg' and even 'Original Greg' (look it up) are mine. Don't make me send you a cease-and-desist letter.

None of these women strong, for pull plow.

these are the kind of statement of facts I can get behind, ya know in the hubba hubba sense. 'Cause hotties like this, ooooh boy, who needs fantasy? when the girls all look like this all the time, it's all I need to inform me of what womanhood is, and should be.

@39 ties with @37 for the win!

I remember my culture shock during Army training near Toronto and realizing how different those people were - that plus seeing mostly white faces (this is way back when) ...

I'll say this for Page 3 in the UK - less white and more interesting.

@46:
thanks will, we love you informing us who has won, you are a real Bob Costsas no wait, you are Harry Caray "Holy Cow # XX, & Blah Blah For The Win", we couldn't figure out any of the internet without ya. if you ever feel underappreciated on slog, remember it's only half as much as you deserve.

Right, Will, because you grew up in da ghet-to back in Kamloops or Kelowna or wherever the hell you're from.

STM @41, I don't know -- she stops talking for two seconds?

Well, it's pretty obvious who Dan and Tim decided to make walk the plank this morning at their little news meeting.

"Charles, take the day off from your race-bating posts. Josh, continue the self-fellation, you're doing a great job - um, but we still can't pay you because technically you're fired and all. Erica, I want you to pull out all stops - take down your fellow female journalists. Let's see, Pam's gone, Nicole? Eh, you did her a few weeks ago. How about this? Christine Clarridge - yeah. Go find some offense in one of her stories and then post some disparaging comments about her. Make it personal this time, too. We need the hits people! Don't forget to put on your sandpaper underpants: Look for sexism and anti-mass transportation innuendo under EVERY rock. OK team? GO! GO! GO! Teammmmmmmmm SLOG!"

Hey #49:
Where does one find these underpants made of sandpaper? I am intrigued by the notion. Could I pick some up at big-lots? Or maybe you have a DIY pattern and I could fashion some out of my stock of Home Depot p40. Thanks in advance.

@50 Any of the big-chain hardware stores have them, but your local Ace will too. They've been around for years. Usually hanging next to the fiberglass minipads and the Chore-Boy athletic supporters.

@38 Some online publishers pay writers for comments that they generate. I believe that the Gawker sites do it and I do have a vague recollection of one of the guest sloggers mentioning getting paid a buck for each comment. I'm not sure if it is an official policy for all sloggers, but a few of the writing styles lead me to suspect it may be.

@52 - Thanks for the response.

Erica (or Dan or any other Slog poster) - Care to elaborate on what, if any, the incentive structure for Slog posters is (financially or otherwise)? I do think that it's important that you inform your readers if you stand to gain from your posts. It will tell us a little something about your true motivations on these types of posts.

@53: None.

@54 - Thanks for the reply.

@48

she drops her chips.