Glamour Fires Male Blogger After Readers ‘Pulverize’ Him

Reaction forces serial-dater’s removal.

By Dylan Stableford
03/11/2008

Glamour has fired its controversial “Man Needs a Date” blogger after the site was inundated with comments from outraged readers.

In a note posted on Glamour.com, the magazine explained its rationale for removing the blogger, Mike Cherico, from the site: “Our ultimate goal here is to open a productive conversation about men, sex, love and dating; clearly, that can't happen when the majority of readers would like to pulverize the blogger.”

The latest swath of vitriol for the Los Angeles-based Cherico—a high school English teacher who had blogged as a sort of “serial-dater” for Glamour since 2007—seemed to stem from a post he wrote about a date, in which he says he left a woman who appeared to have a cold sore. The woman launched a blog to counter Cherico’s version of the date, which was then linked to his post in the comments section.

Her 3,000-plus word post was eventually taken down, but not before the floodgates opened.

“It will be a truly disappointing decision if Mike still remains as a blogger,” one of the 200-plus commenters wrote. “I truly and sincerely expected higher standards from this magazine.”

“I realize that this punk is driving HUGE site hits, which equates to $$$, but at some point Conde Naste [sic] has to operate with integrity,” wrote another. “At least I hope so.”

Another summed up the call for Cherico’s removal this way: “How can a magazine that promotes self-confidence and health in women keep this toxic person employed?”

The dust-up generated reaction overseas, where a British blogger wondered if Cherico is the “most hated blogger in the U.S.A.”

For its part, Glamour says it will replace Cherico with a new blogger “soon.”

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hey how about an ugly Barnie for your ......

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 12:57.

..blogs. I don't bite but then again I ain't that good looking either. I used to be but I've gotten fat. What they, Glamour, are probably looking for is a good looking guy who isn't shallow that I've never met. I being a man have met mostly shallow men who are attractive. The male role in a dating relationship often gives the male involved license to be shallow because of a woman's subservience to him. The better looking a guy is the more the female involved will want to please him by being subservient to him. The guy can use any excuse he wishes to terminate the relationship and usually does once his ulterior goals are not met. To have a guy report on his side of the dating is what is at fault. what they need as they've seen here is a way for the woman to rate her date so that both sides are represented in your magazine. Another thing is how can they seriously pay someone to date? When it behooves them not to hook up too soon because they would loose their meal ticket if they did? Who actually thought of this poorly supervised piece of work. They are trusting a man to be honest about a woman he doesn't really know over the topic of his reputation and the money he earns with that reputation. They've got to find some better way to get an honest man's point of view. In other words you have to find some way where in order to do his job properly he has to be honest. Get him an opposite that dates men and have them compare notes. Do something like I said I like to blog and I would love to do something like that but then again I don't see any women knocking down my door for dates. You know ya get what you pay for.