Who knows.
Would definitely be interesting to know who the culprit was and what their intention was.
Might just shake up some folks' knee jerk reactions to such stuff.
I think you are most likely correct referring to it as silly.
No one was the culprit. Someone inside put in some temporary text, either someone genuinely sexist or more likely - as you suggest - someone parodying the sexism within. It snuck into press due to sloppy processes.
I worked for a large organisation on team maintaining software that was used by literally thousands of internal users. When we updated software, we kept the users from logging in by creating a file on the system. If that file was present, the users got a message saying "The system is unavailable". When we removed that file, they could log in again. No one on the team had been there when the software was written. One day, instead of creating an empty file, someone on the team create a text file with the words "fark off". It turns out that made the message become "The system is unavailable: fark off". Someone lost his job that day**
It would be interesting to review back issues to see if they have a history of putting pictures of pretty blonde women in photospreads
Seriously? It would not be interesting. As far as I know, I have never read CW, but is it a question that a magazine primarily focused at white men would feature women attractive to white men in their pages? Young, blonde. We don't need to do a survey to know the answer. Unless you have never read a magazine or newspaper.
**ok, he didn't lose his job, but only because he was the best coder on the team. Anyone else would have been out the door.
