Men’s magazine Maxim is deservedly copping backlash after an article about the “unsexiest women” in Hollywood resurfaced on social media.
The article was first published by the US iteration of the mag back in 2007 under the headline “Unsexiest Women Alive”, and contained five celebs deemed “unsexy” by a bunch of blokes who probably wrote the article with Dorito-stained fingers.
For reasons unknown, Sarah Jessica Parker — who is basically what you get when you ask AI to spit out ‘beautiful woman’ — topped Maxim’s list, with the author claiming (per Stuff) she is the “least sexy woman” from the cast of Sex and the City.
Listen, I’m a gay man and even I know that all those women are goddesses, so I request to see a (likely unflattering) image of whichever schmuck thought this article was a good idea.
SJP was bizarrely followed by Amy Winehouse in second place, with the list rounded out by literal blonde bombshell Britney Spears, the always chic Sandra Oh and style icon Madonna.
By the article’s logic, I guess coming fifth place is better than first (?), but the entire concept of the list — which reportedly compared Madonna to Willem Dafoe (?) and ragged on Spears for having chicken-grease-stained pants (like any human) — has understandably come under fire on social media.
“It should be mandatory for anyone who publishes articles like this to post a picture of themselves beside their work,” one Redditor wrote, while another said exactly what we’re all thinking: “All these women are hot? Wtf”.
“I can’t believe someone could even think that let alone publish it,” another user declared.
Thankfully, it wasn’t just fans who had their say, with Parker herself clapping back at the list in an interview with Grazia back in 2008.
“Do I fit some ideals and standards of some men writing in a men’s magazine? Maybe not,” she said, per The Guardian.
“Am I really the unsexiest woman in the world?” she asked. “Wow! It’s kind of shocking.”
Kind of shocking?! More like 10 on the Richter scale shocking!
Speaking of 10s, it goes without saying but each woman on Maxim’s list is undeniably gorg, far more so than the greasy guy who dolled out criticisms from the comfort of his equally greasy keyboard.
While the beauty standards of 2025 aren’t a walk in the park, they’re a at least a tad better than a men’s magazine ranking women on how viable they are based on ‘sexiness’.
After all, a women’s worth is certainly not based on her physical appearance, in the same way that a man’s isn’t — no matter how many Doritos he has consumed.
In that same spirit, I leave you with another comment from a Redditor responding to the resurfaced list:
“Which incel wrote this?”
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