Are You Kidding Me With This Amazon Review!

[Pat58]

Originally Posted by vintage vfer

i'm sure rodney and gilad would be devastated to know that women find them attractive!

:d

[Demeris]

Originally Posted by Vintage VFer

I'm sure Rodney and Gilad would be devastated to know that women find them attractive!

In the past, I've had naughty thoughts about Brian Kest, too. I might have to pull up all my old posts and scrub them.

[jcmclean]

Rodney Yee would be very interested to know that. He's been accused of sexual harassment in the past.

[LeslieM]

Tilak Pyle is a cutie too!

[alisoncooks]

Originally Posted by Demeris

In the past, I've had naughty thoughts about Brian Kest, too. I might have to pull up all my old posts and scrub them.

I think the difference is: no one here is crude like that! I think it's possible to comment that someone is attractive without objectifying them/reducing their worth *only* to being attractive.

Gilad is a nice-looking man...but he's also a great/capable instructor. I think that's where those nasty commentors go wrong. (Other than the obvious: they are crude in their praise.)

[cataddict]

Originally Posted by jcmclean

Well, many women here comment on the looks of male instructors and participants in the workout videos.

True, but as has been mentioned before people actually are interested in the workouts, both purchasing and actually doing them, not based just the looks of the instructor. Truly most if not all of the instructors are at least pleasant to look at, male and female.

[keilan00]

Unfortunately there is an entire forum of guys like this. It's a spandex fetish website where they comment on women instructors and share photos and video downloads.

[DejaDeb]

I reported it as well -- I can't believe it's still up.

Originally Posted by Vintage VFer

When I looked at it yesterday, 3 people had found that review "Helpful." I looked today and now 4 people have found it helpful. I can only assume that someone from VF found it helpful.

LOL! Well, maybe that's why it's still up!

[hch]

Originally Posted by DejaDeb

I reported it as well -- I can't believe it's still up.

[snip]

LOL! Well, maybe that's why it's still up!

I don't really know why it's still there, but I wasn't too astonished. The review is from 2006, enough people would've found it offensive in 2006, and the page has surely been read enough times in the past decade. I'm sure that the recent reports haven't been the first reports, and maybe even this campaign to remove it hasn't been the first campaign. Even so, that review remains.

A speculation of mine is possibly that policy may allow for different "viewpoints" in the reviews, if the viewpoints comply with site guidelines and the like--even if the viewpoint was unintended by the work's creator and even if many people object to the viewpoint. (I'm reminded of the all those "funny" reviews of the "Three Wolf Moon" shirt.)