# Bends Over? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285 "2019-11-11T14:48:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285/21 "2019-11-11T21:13:59Z")
I tried reading the linked articles, and it was like another language. It’s the same feeling I would always get when I decided that I needed to be conversant in water-cooler sportsball talk, so I would try to read the articles in the sports page in the local paper: who are these people? Why does the article assume I know so much and skips important details? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285/22 "2019-11-11T21:44:16Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > if it has a new meaning, it must be really new, because urban dictionary hasn’t catalogued it yet. All three stories are at the same website, and one guy authored two of the three articles. It’s just some place’s pet word so far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285/23 "2019-11-12T09:31:02Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I can understand the OP’s confusion. Why on earth would the fact that the subject happens to be in some form of bending at the waist be included in the headline? In multiple items, no less. I could see why **Enola Gay** was wondering if it was some new fad, like planking or something. 🙂 SEO/clickbait. Someone might be searching for Sophie Simmons bending over in a Halloween costume. I’ve run several websites in my lifetime and have had several 7/8 figure client websites. you might be (but shouldn’t be) surprised at what gets traffic and is monetized. It would be entirely possible to make a business or perhaps a nice chunk of a business (using multiple niche blogs/sites with income streams) completely around “celebrity women bending over” pictures. It’s been done with nip slips, cleavage, butts in tight pants, whatever, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285/24 "2019-11-12T11:13:29Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > I’ve been seeing [this](https://www.alternativenation.net/mick-jagger-daughter-bends-wasted-photo/) [a lot](https://www.alternativenation.net/gene-simmons-daughter-bends-halloween-costume/) [lately](https://www.alternativenation.net/kurt-cobain-daughter-bends-halloween-outfit/) and figure it must have some other meaning that I’m unfamiliar with. Does anyone understand this use of “bends over”? If you’ve been seeing a lot of that lately, I would suggest that all 3 of your links go to the same place. Are you seeing a lot of this lately at alternativewhatchummahoozy dot net? ETA:I see that this has been pointed out. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285/25 "2019-11-12T12:57:15Z")
We’re burying the lede here, which is that an ogre like Gene Simmons somehow sired an attractive daughter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bends-over/843285.md?page=1)