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50% of ALL women offended by Jeff Corbett's post's title

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50% of ALL women offended by Jeff Corbett's post's title...

Estrogen Levels FUNNY?  sign

9 of 10 women want to string  Jeff Corbett up by...

I'm just making up the numbers but here's a poll.

Were you offended?   Should you be offended?


Jeff Corbett's blog post titled "Estrogen Infused Markets Equals Unpredictable Mortgage Rate Forecasting"

Spawned Karen Anne Stone's blog post  titled:  The emotionally charged mortgage market is it really estrogen infused or testoserone poisoned?  


Karen's post is Members Only so I can not tell you what it says or what is said in the comments.


It looks like about half of the comments on Jeff's post are about whether the post is offensive, misogyny, why it is featured....  not about the volatile mortgage market...

I did not comment...  what is there to say about the mortgage market?

"yup I hear rates are low and could go up..." 

As I admitted on Karen's post when I saw the title I read the comments to see who was offended by the title. It is a good post about the mortgage market right now but I might not have even noticed it if not for Jeff's title.

50% of ALL women ought to be offended by Jeff Corbett's post's title?

 

 

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Pam Turner, REALTOR®, e-PRO®, SFR
Century 21 Belk Realtors Dalton GA - Dalton, GA

Didn't bother me....

May 27, 2010 12:38 AM
Joe Jackson
Keller Williams Capital Partners Realty - Columbus, OH
Clintonville and Central Ohio Real Estate Expert

I did not read it so I need to look at it

May 27, 2010 12:45 AM
Annette Coker
Chapman Hall Realtors Premier - Atlanta, GA
Where Service Goes Beyond The Contract

I have bigger things to worry about so no offense taken by me

May 27, 2010 12:51 AM
Wallace S. Gibson, CPM
Gibson Management Group, Ltd. - Charlottesville, VA
LandlordWhisperer

Gotcha blog titles are usually indicative of a BORING blog....I'm with VB *

May 27, 2010 12:52 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Gee I think I love "Gotcha blog titles."  Jeff wrote a post on AR last summer that had a title that started a similar conversation on AR, about the title. ... it was a blog war.

I don't think Jeff's post is boring at all. I don't know that there is much for ME to say in a comment there.  I seldom comment on finance / mortgage posts...

May 27, 2010 01:10 AM
Bill Travis
Captain Bill Realty, LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner

I read the post and while the information was good, I felt the fowl street language was not appropriate for a professional real estate site. 

May 27, 2010 01:51 AM
Irene Kennedy Realtor® in Northwestern NJ
Weichert - Lopatcong, NJ

Will I voted "not offended" and made the stats 50% - 50%.  Does this mean you were the single other vote of "offended," Maureen?

May 27, 2010 02:08 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

No I guess I have not voted yet.  If I do a poll in a post I try NOT to make the post about how people should vote....

Do you think I am offended by Jeff's post?  Language?  Do you think I think it is misogynistic?

May 27, 2010 02:13 AM
Jo Olson
HOMEFRONT Realty - Kettle Falls, WA
Retired - HOMEFRONT Realty @ LAKE Roosevelt

I voted not offended. I enjoy Jeff's posts I rarely reply to them but I do learn from them.  I like Jeff. I voted.

May 27, 2010 02:54 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I don't know Jeff.  I know when I first was aware of Xbroker I did NOT like Jeff, or I was not a fan of the Xbroker blog. 

When he was an AR employee he was very, very helpful to me.  He posted the same post on Xbroker back on May 20.  

Does Jeff have a psychology degree?

May 27, 2010 03:20 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

May 27th, 2010

Jeff's post made the daily drop too.... 
May 27, 2010 03:55 AM
Paul Slaybaugh
Homesmart - Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale, AZ Real Estate

People are funny.  Boring?  How can that post possibly be construed as boring to anyone in the industry?  Those without the stomach for more than a paragraph and a half worth of content are a far greater indictment on the state of the collective than tolerance/acceptance of profane utterances.

Thinking of creating the first pop-up blog to keep the interest of children, farm animals and the intellectually deficient.

May 27, 2010 06:06 AM
Jeff Corbett
BoomTown - Charleston, SC

Jeff has a major in Cellular Biology, a minor in Psychology, and another minor in upsetting the apple-cart and writing strangely titled posts :)

May 27, 2010 06:57 AM
Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL
Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Maureen,

Felt sort of strange, I am not a woman, so it would not even stop my eyes. I am a fan of catchy titles...

I can't call Jeff's blog boring. The reason i did not comment is simply because for me the subject is boring, and his Title and style made me read it, which is a big achievement, but I simply not versed in financial matters to comment.

I do not think that he has beef against women in any shape or form, or sense (actually, I am sure it is the opposite), it was used more as a stylistic mean

Like you used a word 'whore' in comment to my blog, and it did not occur to me to see beyond what you meant. Could I (or someone else in my shoes) start a fight? But this is exactly what Karen Anne did. She took it in the absolutely different direction. It was not 'estrogen infused or testosterone poisoned' before, but it became just that when the discussion shifted into male-female juxtaposition

After all it was about the mortgages, and about boring stuff, and Jeff tried to make it more memorable.

He is a good guy writing strangely titled posts (by his own admission). And he has brains, and that is great

But because I am not a woman, I couldn't vote.

May 27, 2010 10:43 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life

Jon Zolsky's not a woman?

May 27, 2010 11:21 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Paul hope your pop up gets featured

Jeff Your strangely titled post sucked me right in.

Jon I don't know that men can't vote.  I think they are much less likely to be offended than women but there are some who believe Jeff's post is UNPROFESSIONAL ... "I felt the fowl street language  was not appropriate for a professional real estate site." 

Fowl? I could be wrong but I think that is "foul"?  Chicken? Duck? Goose...  I guess I did NOT notice the naughty  words in the post... when I saw the Title I had to see how people (women people) were taking "the strangely titled post"...

I have a real hard time commenting on finance and mortgage posts, not that they are boring but neither a PointWhore or Point Whore* "Great post thanks for sharing" or a Robotic Point Pig* "We learn so much on ActiveRain" are my style.  I learned about PIG or PIIG though... A lot of economics is over MY head.  

 

*PW thanks to Monika McGillicudy.  **RPP thanks to J. Philip Faranda

May 27, 2010 11:29 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

To Jeff:  As in a poker hand... I will "see" your wager of the minor in Psychology... and will "raise" you to my Major in Psychology.  And... I will throw in my minor in Philosophy for free.  LOL.  And, I know... right now, that... and $4.95... will get me a good cup of coffee at Starbucks.  :)

You and are are simply two very different personality types... and see the world in two completely different ways.

Maureen:  I really do not see anyone of those voting or commenting here... who read and commented on either post.  So, not sure how the results of your poll are anywhere close to being valid.  Just a thought...

And... I think both posts received somewhere around a total of 200 comments.  Just another thought, here...

May 28, 2010 02:27 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

What a snotty offensive commment! 

May 28, 2010 02:40 PM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

Maureen:  I don't know if you were referring to my comment... since your comment # 19 came right after my comment # 18.  If so... I apologize.  Being snotty and offensive was not my intent.  I regret if that is how it made you feel.  Have a great holiday weekend.

May 28, 2010 03:44 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Yes I was responding to your comment. 

May 28, 2010 04:34 PM