MX is a free street newspaper published here in Brisbane, Australia. I don’t normally pick it up; it’s a bit of a cheap-and-nasty, and the street vendors are unpleasantly pushy. But I found a copy on an unoccupied seat on my bus this afternoon, so I thought I’d have a flick through it.

And here’s what I found in the “MX Gloss & Glam (edited by Jane Watkins)” section of the paper:

Let’s just bask in that for a moment, shall we?

Who is the Slut?

You might not believe this, but I was so stunned by the headline itself that I didn’t clock to the Doctor Who connection right away. How on Earth does this kind of thing get past an editor?

I did a little digging, and it didn’t take long to discover the article itself is a poorly rewritten swipe from, of all places, the UK’s Daily Telegraph. In that august tome, however, the headline was a more sedate affair: Viewers think new Doctor Who is ‘too sexy’

Yes, an MX editor rewrote — without attribution, mind — a story from a UK tabloid and made it MORE sexist.

Update: Catriona at Circulating Library has a more considered but equally outraged take.