[fivedogit]

By some force of habit, I still visit yahoo.com every now and then. I guess it's about as close to "what normal people are into" as I'm going to get these days without TV.

I'm struck by the juxtaposition of Marissa Mayer's place as a historically important woman in tech (which she has personally embraced) and the sheer number of "Kardashian" and "Jenner" mentions found on the Yahoo front page. Seriously. CTRL-F "Jenner" at any time and see what happens. 5 mentions, minimum.

"What's wrong with that?" you might ask. Everything. The Kardashians -- OK, primarily Kim has made a career and massive amounts of money from voluntarily making herself into a vapid sex object. Sex tapes, jilted husbands, nude PR stunt magazine covers... it's the lowest of the low. We all know it and that's fine. If the world pays for that, whatever. That's capitalism.

But Marissa...

I'm always conficted about Marissa. Her job depends on an unholy convenient alliance with the Attention Hounds of the World to bring eyes to her basically-worthless-without-Alibaba-investment company's website. Does that not keep her up at night?

So when a story like this comes out: "Look at me! I'm blazing trails for women in the workplace!" I just remember all the Kardashian-enabling and then it all rings very hollow.