Who’s The Media Critic?

From Salon:

When Karen Price, a 50-year-old writer, joined Facebook, she was immediately friended by a prominent D.C. media critic. Soon she learned he had been comparing her attractiveness and datability with that of other women. “I’m sure he has no idea I was e-mailed that by the Compare People app folks,” says Price, who was thoroughly weirded out. “I wondered why he was comparing me with another woman in media,” she says. “And then why he found me prettier but another woman more datable. I told myself I shouldn’t wonder about any of this silliness, but … I wondered. It was like finding out your name had been written on the boys’ room wall in high school. I mean, we live in different cities. He’s married. It’s not really about socializing or thinking about dating people, it’s just — wow, after all this time, when none of that stuff is realistically in question … um, it’s in question?”

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