By some force of habit, I still visit yahoo.com every now and then. I guess it&#x27;s about as close to &quot;what normal people are into&quot; as I&#x27;m going to get these days without TV.<p>I&#x27;m struck by the juxtaposition of Marissa Mayer&#x27;s place as a historically important woman in tech (which she has personally embraced) and the sheer number of &quot;Kardashian&quot; and &quot;Jenner&quot; mentions found on the Yahoo front page. Seriously. CTRL-F &quot;Jenner&quot; <i>at any time</i> and see what happens. 5 mentions, minimum.<p>&quot;What&#x27;s wrong with that?&quot; you might ask. Everything. The Kardashians -- OK, primarily Kim has made a career and massive amounts of money from voluntarily making herself into a vapid sex object. Sex tapes, jilted husbands, nude PR stunt magazine covers... it&#x27;s the lowest of the low. We all know it and that&#x27;s fine. If the world pays for that, whatever. That&#x27;s capitalism.<p>But Marissa...<p>I&#x27;m always conficted about Marissa. Her job depends on an unholy convenient alliance with the Attention Hounds of the World to bring eyes to her basically-worthless-without-Alibaba-investment company&#x27;s website. Does that not keep her up at night?<p>So when a story like this comes out: &quot;Look at me! I&#x27;m blazing trails for women in the workplace!&quot; I just remember all the Kardashian-enabling and then it all rings very hollow.