Rule Five

"You should be offended, and often, and by someone who knows how."

- Robert Stacy McCain, paraphrasing Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind

Many of my readers may be wondering why I've been linking Robert Stacy McCain so often as of late. Truth is, I just can't help myself. McCain and his friend Smitty run a damn good blog.

To wit, read this post of McCain's titled "How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year." Therein, McCain lays out five rules that, if followed, can result in a massive increase in traffic for one's blog. I especially like this part of Rule Five:

D. Feminism sucks -- You can never go wrong in the blogosphere by having a laugh at the expense of feminists. All sane people hate feminism, and no one hates feminism more than smart, successful, independent women who've made it on their own without all that idiotic "Sisterhood Is Powerful" groupthink crap. And if you are one of those fanatical weirdos who takes that Women's Studies stuff so seriously that you're offended by Stephen Green's sexist objectification of Christina Hendricks and her mighty bosom -- well, sweetheart, to paraphrase Rhett Butler: "You should be offended, and often, and by someone who knows how."

If you've spent any extensive time around feminists, as I have, the above passage cannot help but provoke a guffaw. Yes, I'm well aware that I'm in the wrong profession for hating feminism, but like the old saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt. And nothing breeds contempt like spending the day around those who complain endlessly about being oppressed by "the Man" or "the Patriarchy" while meting out the very type of bigotry they claim to despise. Am I bitter? Just a bit.

But the overall point of Rule Five is that pics of beautiful women on one's blog bring about more traffic, and that has certainly been the case with this post of mine from May of last year, featuring such beauties as Courtney Friel, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and an unnamed World War II-era pin-up girl. That post, which took only minutes to put together, has received more traffic than anything else ever posted at this blog.

So perhaps I should post entries like that more often. We'll see. Whatever my ultimate decision, I will do so in my own way and in my own time, as is the case with anything I do around here. And for any feminists who may be reading, understand this: yes, I like beautiful women. Get over it.