Anna Holmes Puts The Charlie Sheen Hype in Perspective

Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel, has some strong words on the current obsession with all things Charlie Sheen in The New York Times. Holmes says that Sheen’s vast history of abusing women is somehow an afterthought, mainly because our society says the type of women who Sheen is associated with aren’t deemed worthy of respect:

It’s these sorts of explicit and implicit value judgments that underscore our contempt for women who are assumed to be trading on their sexuality.

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