Wednesday, July 22, 2009

"About Cars and Baseball"

This was possibly the greatest headline for a story I have ever seen. It appeared in a bar-rag newspaper in DC, and was actually the most sexist article I have ever seen; about picking up girls, use-and-abusing them, then throwing them away. The title of the piece was deliberatly intended so that actual females would never read it.
The Onion would later become masters at the non-sequiter school of headlines, but this one might have beat them all. When I started this blog, I used the Onion's inspiration in titleing a piece about nothing (doing laundry, surfing mindless cable) "The Death of All Mankind.". The portetiousness of the title, as you can see, had nothing to do with its contents.
Headline juxtiposition can also be hilarious. In high school, there was a story in the student paper about the Russian play "The Idiot." The same headline about the show ran right over a picture of the math teacher.
I'm waiting for an article skewering men called something like "about fashion (or babies) and weddings." It wasn't too long ago that they called the wedding pages of the NYT "The Women's Sports Section."

1 comment:

Kleingärtner said...

ah, waking up next to what appears to be a six-foot iguana!