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Businessweek News Site Removes Poll About ‘Most Attractive Females’ After Weekend Backlash

Nov. 12, 2012 3:08pm

Bloomberg’s Businessweek polled its followers Friday evening about which business schools had the most attractive females. As one might expect, the poll was met with criticism with many asking “what were they thinking?” in posing such a question.

The Daily Dot reported the question posted on Businessweek’s Face/Off was exactly this: “Which business school has the most attractive female students?” The poll was then tweeted. The Daily Dot calls the criticism of the question “slow to build” but “severe.” Eventually, Businessweek removed both the poll and the tweet. But Google’s cache has shows the page here.

Bloombergs Businessweek Removes Polls About Which School Has the Most Attractive Females

Screenshot of the poll removed by Businessweek. (Image: Google cache)

Face/Off is the site’s new “social voting game” that was just introduced last week.

Before being taken down, the page itself had 18 comments from Facebook users. One user called it a “serious mistake” and others couldn’t believe that it came from Bloomberg. Rachel Sklar wrote:

Nothing says “We don’t take women in business seriously” like ranking women based on their looks. This demeans every woman who works at your magazine, every woman you’ve ever covered, and pretty much every woman ever. And it is meant to. Know that this is intentional sexism. Whomever was responsible for publishing this knew exactly what kind of message it sent. That it got sent from BUSINESSWEEK makes it all the more stunning. Fix. This. Fast.

Bloombergs Businessweek Removes Polls About Which School Has the Most Attractive Females

This image shows all the contenders. (Image: Google cache)

The Daily Dot’s Aja Romano wonders just what Businessweek’s staff was thinking when they decided upon this question, but she poses this speculation:

What were Businessweek execs thinking when they put up the poll to begin with? Probably that this year would be no different from the other three years they’d published similar rankings of colleges by hotness.

In 2009, Businessweek published an article called “Campus Life: A Report Card.” “It’s important to understand what the universities that house the top business programs are really like,” claimed the article. The next year, they repeated the article, this time with a slide show purporting to list the “Fifty Colleges with the Hottest Guys, Girls, and Nightlife.” And by 2011, they were confident enough to declare it a yearly event.

The lists generated virtually no discussion. In 2010, a Huffington Post syndication of the list garnered comments about the drug scene on certain campuses, but little else. On the Bloomberg Businessweek website, comments were absent altogether.

Romano then went on to write that if Businessweek had included good looking men in its poll, the ranking based on hotness could have continued to be missed by many.

Businessweek issued this statement regarding the polls:

We regret issuing two online polls last week that asked our readers to comment on which business schools had the most attractive male and female students. The Face/Off polls have been taken down from businessweek.com. They were in poor taste and undermine the tremendous value our Business Schools vertical provides.

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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include Bloomberg’s statement. TheBlaze also erroneously posted that Bloomberg had not yet issued a statement regarding the poll at the time the story was posted but it in fact had. 

(H/T: Business Insider)

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Comments (35)

  • OniKaze
    Posted on November 13, 2012 at 1:45pm

    This is what I take away from this….

    All women love to be praised for attractiveness…. UNLESS they are UN-attractive… and some women are complaining about this poll….. So what you have is UN-attractive women complaining about attractive women… which means some women are being catty, SURPRISE!! And I would be willing to bet that many of the people who are complaining are either slightly to heavily over-weight (which I am SURE plays NO PART in them being found UN-attractive, ;-) )…

    Its funny ain’t it…. How a women will appreciate you if you tell them you think they are pretty, but then hate you if you find a different woman pretty….

    Jealousy is an UGLY thing…

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    OniKaze  
  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:54pm

    Beaver college ?

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    Mr.Fitnah  
  • mensa141
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Our government depends on a populace that voluntarily pays their taxes. How many people do you think will volunteer to pay their taxes when the federal government is perceived to be corrupt as it is now?

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    mensa141  
  • jungle J
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:48pm

    always remember feminism has its roots and foundation in lesbianism and self hate.

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    jungle J  
    • blackyb
      Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:36pm

      Aren’t they so ‘purdy?’

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      blackyb  
    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Really – really ??? These are the same offended females who vote with their vaginas, dress up in ****** costumes, and think that a vote for Obama is like losing your virginity – I am supposed to think you are really offended?

      These are the same “women” who think that a woman votes with her lady parts rather than her brain – and sadly we all learn that too many actually voted with their lady parts rather than their brains? I am now supposed to care that you are offended based upon some superfical thing? Really ?

      I intend to offend you every chance I get for the next 4 years – for being an idiot

      Tough love started Wed Nov 7……

      I WILL NOT TIPTOE around you morons – I do not care what you think – since it is beyond obvious that YOU DO NOT think with anything other than your lady parts

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      kaydeebeau  
  • jungle J
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:41pm

    homely chicks are so easily offended…ugly guys take some pride in their ability to function ugly.

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    jungle J  
    • OniKaze
      Posted on November 13, 2012 at 1:47pm

      and THAT is the real difference between the sexes… That and the whole Physical build thing….

      And speaking as a somewhat un-attractive guy, I completely agree with that statement.

      You don’t see me complaining about the rankings of “Hot Guys” that I am not a part of…

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      OniKaze  
  • righthanddrive
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:38pm

    …and the next story from Fortune says 1000 business will close. But one must keep the excitement high after the recent elections…even if these good looking women will most likely find no jobs after graduation and all that student debt…

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:58pm

      Little news event to add to costs

      Strike looms over the 14 state universities as faculty cast votes. – Pennsylvania
      They want more – screw the costs to students!

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      yougottabekidding  
  • Metallicat
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:48pm

    Seems the feminists have started to play the same game plan the social justice crowd has been playing forever. scream about everything as an insult to your race/gender,and demand more rights that give you preference over every one else,while ignoring your own guilt and hypocrisy.

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    Metallicat  
  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:42pm

    Right, nothing more controversial than the notion that men are attracted to women, or that women are attracted to men. Let’s just short circuit our entire biology and pleasurable indulgence in the fairer sex in order to appease Ms. Glampours and her 10 gauge shotgun.

    Fools.

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  • jackact
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:33pm

    Most probably a discrepancy between unattractive liberal women and attractive conservative women.
    One vote they will not win.
    Bow wow wow……

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    jackact  
  • Verceofreason
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:19pm

    Which business school has the males with smallest doodles?
    The most receding hairlines?

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    Verceofreason  
  • ZAP
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:18pm

    Women have small feet,so they fit in front of a sink….

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    ZAP  
  • toiletclogga
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:15pm

    I’d rather see a poll for trampiest and loosest females. Who cares if they’re good looking?

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    toiletclogga  
  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:15pm

    That was a psychological exercise to put an article out there to flex our muscles, to sway public opinion, so that when the time comes to win elections by voter suppression with our bias in the media, the public will not think twice, they are too busy to do their own thinking? Or was it simply written by someone who is desperate for female attention?

    Tough call you say?

    Me too?

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    media-bias-steals-elections  
  • vic138
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:13pm

    You know whats inappropriate, the add for zulily toddler lingerie in the middle of this article. Like an add for oven cleaner in an article about the holocost.

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    vic138  
  • The_Jerk
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:13pm

    The fuglies are up in arms.

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    The_Jerk  
    • nzkiwi
      Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:40pm

      @ Jerk

      Do you think that perhaps the complainants attend the low scoring institution?

      Report this comment

      nzkiwi  
  • RightUnite
    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:11pm

    What?? Not enough crappy business news to cover??

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    RightUnite  

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