Which of you is writing as "Krista Torres"?

I like a good satire as much as almost anyone. It can be a lot of fun, and occasionally even make an important point. But good satire has to start relatively subtle and work its way up. It can't be over-the-top until almost the end.

Alas, whichever one of you is writing totally over-the-top satire under the nom de plume Krista Torres is doing it wrong. "Krista" is putting out stuff so ridiculous that it flops. You want to get a chuckle about some of the crowd that's really at home in Seattle or Bywater in NOLA? The Dandy Warhols' "Bohemian Like You" does it nicely:


But then "Krista" tried too hard, and it's just ridiculous. No dude (well, almost no dude) is actually like this. But over at Buzzfeed, Krista gave us "Women Are Praising This Group Of Men For Sharing The Things They Regularly Do That Are Stereotypically 'Unmanly' ". Okay, okay, this has some humorous potential. And yeah, I realize it's Buzzfeed. But these are too over-the-top for anyone to even ask, 'Is this real?'



and



are just too much, even for Seattle and Bywater. So "Krista", next time you want to be funny or satirize, dial it back to a bit more subtle, and it should be funnier.

Because we all know that no woman (well, almost no woman) actually praises dudes like this.