I think it's fair to say that The Register has always been the red top of tech publishing, I haven't minded in the past, I'm partial to a bit of puerile humour myself, but their sexist and sexualised headlines seem to have been particularly bad over the last few months. It also seems to have been a very bad year for women in tech, as they say, although maybe every year is a bad year for women in tech.
There sometimes comes a point where you have to vote with your feet, I've tried to give up Google, and now I'm giving up The Register. It's a shame, I mostly like the content, it's only the headlines and the odd Andrew Orlowski polemic that I object to.
The examples below are a few stories I've noticed, ranging from genuine IT stories with arguably offensive innuendo crowbarred into their headlines (the first one is a good example), through vaguely IT-y stories with a sexual element (see the Oracle story for example) to non-IT non-stories that allow a titillating headline and/or picture (take Pamela Anderson, please). There's a bit of everyday sexism too.
Incidentally Bridget Christie Minds the Gap has been excellent.
Facebook turns on frigid Swedish ice-maidens in new data centre
And by maidens, we mean slim, 'vanity-free', low-maintenance models
NSA PRISM deepthroat VANISHES as pole-dance lover cries into keyboard
Blogging bikini babe blubs about 'the ones I never got to bid adieu'
US public hate Snowden - but sexpot spy Anna Chapman LOVES him
Deep penetration femme fatale fancies PRISM deepthroat
Tickle my balls, stroke my button and blow the fluff from my crack
"Give yourself a little blow job every morning and your working day will be a happier
one!"
Is it a BIRD? Is it a plane? Right first time - and she's in SPANDEX
Huawei's superheroine Purple Reign upstages new mobe
Apple drops hints about future low-cost iPhones
Maybe just older iPhone models, maybe something new entirely. We report, you decide
Village-swallowing MUDCANO was no accident, say boffins
Forget 'Sharknado': the Mudcano is real, destroyed 10,000 buildings and is still erupting
Apple FINGERED our personal packages every day, claim shop staff
Hired fanbois demand thousands of dollars in sueball
Think your smutty Snapchats can't be saved by dorks? THINK AGAIN
Snapchat Save app promises hassle-free image and video capture
China has another go at rare earth dominance
First exchange will 'stabilise the market' as crackdown targets 'smugglers'
Leaked photos of iPhone 5C parts portend ugly Google legal battle
Slavish copycat behavior will certainly unleash the lawyerly hounds
Amazon DISAPPEARS from internet
Last week Google, this week Amazon, next week
Amazon tightens grip on cloud market, report shows
Data reveals cloud inferiority complex in other vendors
10,000 app devs SLEEP together in four-day code-chat-drink tech orgy camp
Hey, geeks: Hate the great outdoors? Now you can stay in a tent in a big tent
Beat the UK's incoming smut filter: Pre-censor your grumble flicks
Oh NO, we don't have money to pay you! Bow-chicka- EDIT *bzzzzt*
TPG flashes cheeky 'down under' CAPTCHA
Bum's the word on who's responsible
Oracle sued over $33,000 bill for SaaS: STRIPPERS as a SERVICE
Company credit card allegedly racked up thousands on the other kind of rack
Ubuntu 13.10: Meet the Linux distro with a bizarre Britney Spears fixation
Search me, baby, one more time
Swedish teen's sex video fine slashed: Unwilling co-star girlfriend furious
'It feels like a slap in the face' says ex
UPDATE: Ok, they're just trying to rile me now.
In a meeting with a woman? For pity's sake DON'T READ THIS
Just put that gadget away, or she's liable to do one
UPDATE 22-Jan-2014 : I've been keeping an eye on it and they really seem to have cleaned up their act, both in respects of the images and the headlines.
There sometimes comes a point where you have to vote with your feet, I've tried to give up Google, and now I'm giving up The Register. It's a shame, I mostly like the content, it's only the headlines and the odd Andrew Orlowski polemic that I object to.
The examples below are a few stories I've noticed, ranging from genuine IT stories with arguably offensive innuendo crowbarred into their headlines (the first one is a good example), through vaguely IT-y stories with a sexual element (see the Oracle story for example) to non-IT non-stories that allow a titillating headline and/or picture (take Pamela Anderson, please). There's a bit of everyday sexism too.
Incidentally Bridget Christie Minds the Gap has been excellent.
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