Your point is well taken. It may not be jealousy per se, but more a need to 'mark out' people who are different in some way. Either way, it is ridiculous that

Your point is well taken. It may not be jealousy per se, but more a need to 'mark out' people who are different in some way. Either way, it is ridiculous that tech 'journalists' feel that they have open license to mock the physical appearance of males in the technology industry like this, because, face it, who's going to stand up on their behalf? It's a thin line between general mud-slinging and actively malicious intentions . The classroom bully also sometimes does it "just for fun", he doesn't have "actively malicious intentions". On the other hand imagine the outcry if an article had described Marissa Mayer in this photo (http://i.huffpost.com/gen/881509/thumbs/r-MARISSA-MAYER-INTERVIEW-large570.jpg http://i.huffpost.com/gen/881509/thumbs/r-MARISSA-MAYER-INTE...) as "having a cartoonish smile, with stringy blond hair, BO, and a surprising number of wrinkles." (note: NOT something I intend to be taken seriously, just an example of generally saying horrible things about a person). People would have been up in arms about "objectifying women in the tech industry and criticizing their looks instead of concentrating on their successes."