Whoever said sexism isn’t alive and well in America has been asleep behind the wheel or living under a rock for, well, forever. Now, before you get all PC on us, save your breath. The glass ceiling here at Dealbreaker is not only buttressed by myself and Bess Levin – but John Carney smiles down on us and his other female minions from time to time sitting on his glass thrown in his ivory tower.
In addition to Dealbreaker, Neiman Marcus management has an interesting division of how they divvy up “allowances” to their CEO’s. Karen Katz, President and CEO gets an annual $25k allowance for clothing while CEO Burton Tansky doesn’t get jack. He does however, get a $12k car allowance (will that even get you a Ford Festiva?). James J. Gold, president of Bergdorf Goodman received a $167k “cost of living” adjustment for relocating from Texas to New York and an additional $296k for NY state taxes. Footnoted.org poses the question – are women simply more focused on clothing while men are more focused on cars and taxes?
Dealbreaker.com gets to the heart of the matter – men get more tail when they drive a hot car. Women can only get men to listen to them if they dress slutty.
On how men and women differ… [footnoted.org]
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 2:00PM
Where is Keith?
Posted by AJ , Sep 28, 2007 2:07PM
I miss Keith. Carney, you owe us an explanation...
Posted by anon , Sep 28, 2007 2:13PM
you suck myrna
and just in case you weren't aware:
a) slutty clothes mean nothing if you don't have a nice rack
b) since when is haute couture associated with slutty? or are you so batting for the other team that you don't get the basics of fashion? just curious, like.
Posted by CAV , Sep 28, 2007 2:24PM
please don't refer to Bess as if you were her equal
Posted by ahem , Sep 28, 2007 2:26PM
Glass thrown? Good God.
Posted by ... , Sep 28, 2007 2:35PM
The hating in these comments is awesome. Myrna is the Meg Griffin of Dealbreaker....
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 2:44PM
Who the hell is meg griffin!
Posted by the myrna = meg analogy is spot on , Sep 28, 2007 2:49PM
Megan "Meg" Griffin is a cartoon character on the TV show Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane. She is the eldest child of Lois and Peter Griffin. She has two younger brothers, Chris and Stewie. She was voiced by an uncredited Lacey Chabert for the first season and by Mila Kunis in subsequent seasons, though Lacey Chabert reprised the role of Meg for several second season episodes.
Meg lives in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island, where she attends James Woods High School as a junior. Meg is constantly seen trying desperately to be part of the "cool crowd", fulfilling the much-used TV stereotype of an unpopular adolescent American female.
Meg is often ridiculed and ignored by the rest of the family - for example, in "Lethal Weapons", where Peter tries an anger management technique by writing letters and not sending them, Meg's said, "Dear Meg, for the first four years of your life, I thought you were a housecat".
Posted by Nice , Sep 28, 2007 2:54PM
Nice to sit on my big THROWN!
Posted by sense , Sep 28, 2007 2:55PM
A baseball THRONE at your head can hurt you!
Posted by are you like the writer of family guy or smthg? , Sep 28, 2007 2:58PM
agreed. except meg= unnoticeable and myrna= so noticeably sucky it hurts.
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 2:58PM
sell myrna, buy bess
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 2:59PM
Why is every post a referendum on Myrna?
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 3:00PM
aren't we good with hominems
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 3:03PM
"Why is every post a referendum on Myrna?"
just the ones by her.
Posted by This Ain't About Quebec Independence , Sep 28, 2007 3:24PM
How many referendums do you need before it's clear that we think she sucks?
Posted by Anal_yst , Sep 28, 2007 3:27PM
You guys are mean, you're gonna make Myrna cry!
(excuse my laughter, I can't help myself)
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 3:30PM
"aren't we good with hominems"
If you don't know how to spell it you should just leave it alone. You're probably a homophobe, but that only explains the incorrect prefix and doesn't touch the lack of a 'y'.
The correct spelling is homonym.
Posted by Myrna Moss , Sep 28, 2007 3:33PM
I am crying now, thanks a lot.
Posted by poop , Sep 28, 2007 3:34PM
does myrnas father own dealbreaker?
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 3:48PM
Whatever, I like Myrna. But maybe only because you guys don't.
Posted by Chris Crocker , Sep 28, 2007 3:49PM
LEAVE MYRNA ALONE!!! SHE'S NOT WELL!!!
LEAVE MYRNA ALONE NOW!!!
Posted by Series7.5 , Sep 28, 2007 3:50PM
Whatever, I like Myrna. But maybe it's only because everyone gives her such a hard time. She's like the value investment of DB.
And at least she's not ragging on 9/11 yet.
Posted by bess fan , Sep 28, 2007 3:52PM
recommendation: get rid of myrna and carney and keith (oops, my b), and turn the site overy entirely to bess.
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 4:00PM
Are we to understand that keith was fired?
Not surprised, he was a real renegade. But some of his posts were unrivaled.
To wit: http://www.dealbreaker.com/2007/07/doing_business_trips_right_the.php
Posted by Fake Oliver Stone , Sep 28, 2007 4:06PM
Where is Keith? The readers have a right to know!
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 4:09PM
Keith, if you are out there, drinking or not, send us a signal of your whereabouts!
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 4:11PM
PING keith
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 4:18PM
myrna = meg, bess = stewie, carney = i can't decide between chris and quagmire
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 4:46PM
Oh come on I just saw Myrna on Miss Blackberry and she is adorable.
Posted by Anal_yst , Sep 28, 2007 5:59PM
Is Myrna Moss a psuedonym? It just sounds way too made up, like a bad pron star name to be real. Perhaps if she had a name like, oh, I dunno, Erin Burnett or something, just to pick an arbitrary combination of letters, her work would get more respect...
Posted by Anonymous , Sep 28, 2007 6:17PM
What a bunch of crybabies in here.
Posted by , Sep 28, 2007 8:30PM
yeah, for *** sake's, someone told me she's fudgy.
But then Dealbreaker cut off all the posting privileges on that particular thread.
Myrna just happened to be FUGLY!!!!!!
Please get Keith back, will ya?
Posted by Chris , Oct 09, 2007 11:32AM
You can obviously lease much more than a Ford Festiva for $1,000/month...