If we're going to generalize about what different large groups want, I suppose we could look at traffic stats and probably say what men want: pictures of naked women. Probably by orders of magnitude more than all YC startups put together.
Your post really judges both women and men in a negative way. In my opinion nothing about enjoying celebrity gossip or porn reflects badly on either gender.
My point is only that "what women want" is an awfully broad brush stroke. My wife doesn't want celebrity gossip. I suppose I should have simply said that.
I was referring to the way you tried to counter the generalization about women with one you thought was "worse" about men. Your objection to generalizing just seems a bit silly to me. How are we supposed to talk about the entire female gender, one-by-one?
Have you ever really observed women (and sometimes men) talk about celebrities. Women talk about Paris Hilton or whatever oddly-crrepy-looking person is "of the moment" as if they were family members or close friends.
"Oh, can you believe that she would..."
"And then she said..."
"We saw here do that are were like, whatever..."
Etc. Funny how rarely people can recognize how they are being manipulated. Even if typing crap into this blog (sorry, news aggregator) is a faux social activity, at least there's a chance someone will read and respond to me.
