HOT CHICKS OF #OWS Up until last week, I was pretty apathetic towards Occupy Wall Street. Mostly because everyone I know won’t shut up about it. How many times am I supposed to watch thesame videos and listen to ten different versions of the same heartfelt financial district story? As much as I’m for the occupation, the information stream I saw coming out of Occupy Wall Street was just as predictable as anything else having to do with finances and politics, and I was starting to tune it out. Then last week I crossed paths with the hot chicks of occupy wall street. That was eons ago in internet time and back then, the site was still pretty empty with just a couple of pictures and a video. The video was a little too hippy dippy for me, but I still preferred its focus on the women of OWS rather than on the brutality that has been at the center of media attention since its inception. Since then, as with anything that involves hot girls (and now apparently, OWS) on the internet, the site has blown up, going as far as to prompt MTV execs to completely miss the point of the protest and put up an ad for a Real World casting call on Craigslist. Also, as with anything that involves hot girls on the internet, Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street has become another reason for people to bicker over sexism and objectification. I don’t see how a video featuring an astrologer and a face painter could be pegged as sexual objectification, but I blame the hordes of internet nerds who started crowding up our newsfeeds with OWS a month ago and have now inevitably brought back the humorless age of politically correct discourse. Luckily for us, the occupation is only going to get bigger, so there’s still time to go down there and decide for yourself how far you want to take the sexual objectification. Or if you’d rather be a dick and sit at home complaining, you can do that too! -KSENIA P.S. Let’s hope this goes viral next.

HOT CHICKS OF #OWS

Up until last week, I was pretty apathetic towards Occupy Wall Street. Mostly because everyone I know won’t shut up about it. How many times am I supposed to watch thesame videos and listen to ten different versions of the same heartfelt financial district story? As much as I’m for the occupation, the information stream I saw coming out of Occupy Wall Street was just as predictable as anything else having to do with finances and politics, and I was starting to tune it out.

Then last week I crossed paths with the hot chicks of occupy wall street. That was eons ago in internet time and back then, the site was still pretty empty with just a couple of pictures and a video. The video was a little too hippy dippy for me, but I still preferred its focus on the women of OWS rather than on the brutality that has been at the center of media attention since its inception.

Since then, as with anything that involves hot girls (and now apparently, OWS) on the internet, the site has blown up, going as far as to prompt MTV execs to completely miss the point of the protest and put up an ad for a Real World casting call on Craigslist.

Also, as with anything that involves hot girls on the internet, Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street has become another reason for people to bicker over sexism and objectification.

I don’t see how a video featuring an astrologer and a face painter could be pegged as sexual objectification, but I blame the hordes of internet nerds who started crowding up our newsfeeds with OWS a month ago and have now inevitably brought back the humorless age of politically correct discourse.

Luckily for us, the occupation is only going to get bigger, so there’s still time to go down there and decide for yourself how far you want to take the sexual objectification. Or if you’d rather be a dick and sit at home complaining, you can do that too!

-KSENIA

P.S. Let’s hope this goes viral next.

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