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New York Post Tiger Woods Cover Further Confuses Definition of “Cheetah”

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by Rachel Sklar | 12:55 pm, December 3rd, 2009

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tiger woods cheetah What is a Cheetah? Aside from a fleet-footed, graceful jungle cat, its colloquial meaning is becoming more imprecise by the day. The New York Observer yesterday tried to use the term to denote an imprecisely large group of women on indeterminate age and indeterminate attractiveness with indeterminate needs but the decidedly determined goal of having sex. Cover your eyes, children. Or, as Jezebel’s Irin Carmon noted, it’s “unclear what a “cheetah” actually is, except amalgam of lazy gchat reporting, cliches [and] double standards.” Which is probably the best definition of that Observer story.

But anyway! Aside from widely-reported feelings of disgust, readers were left with little in the way of hard reporting, or a hard definition for the word “Cheetah” — which just got a lot fuzzier thanks to the New York Post‘s cover today. “I’M A CHEETAH!” says Tiger Woods, on its photoshopped cover. It’s not a direct quote, it’s a pun: Tiger? Cheetah? Get it? But also, wait a second! Tiger’s a man! And he certainly doesn’t answer to the description in the Observer article, though the more information that comes out, the more he’s answering to the description of someone making bad decisions at the end of a boozy night. (Wait, you mean there could be guys that do that too? Wow!) Anyway, something that I’m sure seemed ever so clear on Tuesday night at the Observer offices certainly seems a lot murkier now.

Also, while we’re on the subject of the imprecise, indeterminate definition of “Cheetah,” is there a specific “Cheetah Woman?” Because Disney sort of locked down where exactly the “Cheetah Girls” fall along the spectrum:

Cheetah Girls

Putting women in one-dimensional sexualized categories according to their age is confusing! Below, Kathy Lee and Hoda go a bit Cheetah.

august

Is this the same Rachel Sklar who at Huffpo constantly worked in references to mens’ “packages” in her columns? If any man who had an alleged media criticism column spent most of his time writing about chicks he thought were hot, hypocrites like Sklar would jump all over him as a sexist. Yet here we get another self-righteous column about the terrible double standard slutty women face. Cut it out, you phony hypocrite.
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August, that’s so mean and that’s so not true. I blogged about Rachel’s hotness and she loved it:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?blogid=95&entry_id=52793

…What fuels me is this really wacked desire some express to write mean things about others without using their real name.
august

What the hell are you talking about?

The sexist stereotype of women is that of a frivolous, boy-crazy ignoramus who can’t deal with substantive issues and sees everything in terms of how hot she thinks the men are. Go read Sklar’s crap and see how this caricature is a pretty good description of Sklar in real life.

Just look at how she deals with, say, Rahm Emmanuel and Ralph Nader. Nader supposedly shares her anti-war, “progressive” views, while Emmanuel is a war-mongering neocon who made millions on Wall Street solely from his connections, yet she dumps all over Nader and fawns over a scumbag like Rahm. I served in the Marines–unlike her hero I served in the US military–in Afghanistan and Iraq and don’t often agree with Nader, but I recognize the guy has principles, which is more than you can say for Sklar.

One of the few times she tried to be serious was her article on McCaffrey and the hidden PR effort of the Pentagon. She absolved the them and slammed the original NY Times piece. Of course, the article went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, demonstrating how clueless she is.

Pretty much every time I read Huffpo, there she was talking about some guy she made out with or Tom Brady’s ass or some comedy bit. What does this have to do with journalism? People like Sklar represent everything that is wrong with modern journalism. They’re self-promoters who think journalists are “stars.” Go on Youtube and there she is talking about how to be a media star. Not a journalist, but a star.

And my name is Augie. Should I provide my home address and social security number too?
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