I am feeling the same as Teamgirlpowa about where on earth have you been my 3 months here at steemit !! LOL . I want to follow everyone you are following , because I need to increase that demographic in my feed and also want to read their posts, of course. I find this post to be a balanced and reasonable inquiry. I , too, find that those posts that exist only to complain about the supposed hot girl phenomenon weirdly neglect to mention all the people making money with relatively empty posts, such as complaining about hot girls on steemit... i dont know. But also there are so many posts all over steemit that don't necessarily have much real value but they earn like a $200 SBD because of the "star power" / hottness of the author. I thought that was one of the things that Steemit wants us to do? Cultivate star power (some kind of following due to some kind of hotness of mind, body, spirit, whatever) and that is how you will earn every time you cough out anything. So I am not sure why these guys are mad at the women who follow this formula whether they post about their favorite movies or whether they use cute pictures of themselves... they are following the formula presented to all of us as the way to earn , here. So my longwinded response is that why do "hot women" get complained about or shamed for doing the very thing we are all encouraged to do?
Since I came into Steemit looking for a platform to connect with other creatives in fashion-marketing-content creation- writing sphere I feel like I did quite a bit of poking around before making my first initial posts. I felt like I have seen quite a few "hot girls" posting more empty-ish posts but, exactly! Work that curation power - as a marketing professional I get it. "Market" yourself girl. Also, I'm predominantly tracking #fashion and fashion related tags. So a lot of #OOTD posts.
Its super interesting and I'm glad @malloryblythe posted this article because it does definitliey have me thinking a lot more in regards to the community as a whole.
Thank you! You gals (and guys) are making me feel so welcome. I think they're mad because they think it's unfair that women get to take advantage of their looks and they think that men don't (even though they totally could... I mean there are dudes out there that post pictures of their six packs with plenty of drooling admirers; granted, it's less frequent). For some of them, maybe they've felt burned by women because they don't get the attention they think they deserve. It's silly for many reasons, not the least of which is that it's not like it's any different than having any other genetic leg up in life. If you're profiting from being an athlete or a personal trainer and posting workout videos, you're honing a talent that was likely aided by natural genetic ability, and is much harder for women to achieve at the same level.