Jennifer Siebel: The Girl Code
Before we get into the Jennifer Siebel links of the day, we'd like to put a theory out there. Remember Chron writer C.W. Nevius's theory that men were upset about Newsom's behavior with Ruby Rippey-Tourk because it violated the man code? (which is, in short, don't mess around with a friend's woman.)
Well, we'd like to put forward the thought that one of the reasons why people are so angry with Ms. Siebel over her comments about her romantic rival because she violated the girl code. There are many, many manifestations of the girl code, but we'll summarize it as "always back the females." So -- if you slag another woman, or if you make excuses for a cheating male, all bets are off. C.W. Nevius, feel free to borrow this idea and make it into a post of your own!
Okay, onto the links.
SFist summary: First post from Monday, Jennifer Siebel's comment, all the comments in response, and yesterday's reactions.
--Matier and Ross report on the reaction to Siebel's comments at the HQs of both Team Rippey-Tourk and Team Newsom, and quote Eric Jaye aspirationally opining that "I think the rest of San Francisco is treating it the way people on the inside are treating it -- we're tired of hearing about it." Rippey-Tourk's rep says of Siebel, "Apparently she is just visiting this planet."
--Steven Jones at the Guardian writes a blistering piece about this latest news, in the context of the various failings of the Newsom administration -- while his partner Alix Rosenthal reposts her SFist comment on the letters page of the Chron.
After the jump: Reader blog links, a so-good-it's-freaking-us-out animated .gif, and -- we have it on good authority that we might appear in the Beth Spotswood Culture Blog column coming out later today up now! We hope we don't get edited out!
--To encourage you to send us your own blog links, we're highlighting two posts we were sent by readers: Greg Dewar's take, and the CityMama's. Send us your thoughts and we'll add them in this space!
--We'll add a link to Beth Spotswood's thoughts in this space when her post goes up! (12:00: it's up!)
--Most of the progressive bloggers in town are saying as little as possible on this one. Beyond Chron only touches on it tangentially to complain about the Chronicle's coverage of Gavin Newsom in general, and Left in SF reluctantly jumps in the fray, and decries Jennifer Siebel's wasting of valuable fossil fuels (we're kidding, we're kidding -- but a gasoline analogy is made.
--What of the other fun-loving sites around town? Mum's the word: PartyParty recommends you check out that documentary about Jonestown at the Red Vic tonight. (They covered Meltdown Siebel yesterday.) And GavinWatch is keeping quiet for now (welcome back, GavinWatch! You found your old passwords!) -- but you should click on over to their site anyways, because the new animated graphic they have up is killer. We had to hit the stop button on our browser before we freaked out. (in fairness, we feel obliged to tell you that the graphic corresponds to a fairly partisan anti-Newsom party they're planning -- but even if you love Gavin, the graphic's worth checking out.)
--Well, and if the progressives aren't saying much, the online moderate/conservative local politics community isn't really saying much of anything at all about this one. (Able Dart did call SFist and its readers "an aquarium of tools," though, which we thought was kind of funny.)
Tell us what you think of our girl code theory! We're kind of taken by it. (And do check out that GavinWatch graphic -- we had to stop watching it because it was making us kind of dizzy.)