So Mary Louise Parker just did a tasteful, if somewhat sexist, photo shoot for Esquire. The pictures are sweetly luscious (but Mary, wearing only an apron in the kitchen? Seriously?). What redeems this bit of fluff is a marvelous short essay she wrote, “A Thank-You Note to Men.” (As a web writing professor, I must note it’s a PITA to read, but worth it…). It’s below the photo shoot on the page linked above.

It will be interesting to see how many hits this post receives because as Julia Turner observed in Slate magazine’s Browbeat blog, no matter how highbrow Esquire might pretend to be, their “search optimization” tactics reveal the real truth. We’ll see if mine return the same results.