Tell it to the lingerie you're posing in

And in Things I'm Sick to Death Of news...

Hot young starlets who complain that they're not being taken seriously because GQ, Esquire et al name them sexiest something or other of the year.

So, Jessica Alba is displeased because people are too busy thinking she's hot to realize what a smart and talented actress she is? Gosh, I hope she didn't miss too many of her Mensa meetings when taking the time to pose lasciviously in swimsuits for GQ or play strippers and bikini clad adventure go-ers in her movies, all, I'm assuming, in an effort to disabuse us of our apparently limited view of her talents.

Or lets take poor Scarlett Johansson, who responded to Esquire's crowning her the "Sexiest Woman Alive" by complaining that she would rather be admired for attributes other than sex appeal. While I can't fault her for wanting to be regarded as more than her big boobs, big lips, and impossibly perfect skin, I'm not quite ready to spill tears down my not-so-porcelain cheeks for her.

Unlike Jessica Alba, who genuinely seems to have trouble getting "serious" roles, Johansson's resume of directors reads like a who's-who of respected film makers (Woody Allen, Brian De Palma, Sophia Coppola, Christopher Nolan, to name a few.) So what exactly does she have to bitch about? The fact that in between landing plum roles and getting paid more than most of us make in a lifetime for them, she also has to contend with people finding her pretty? My god, the exquisite torture she must suffer!

I could go on with more examples, but you get the idea. Not that I'm advocating the objectification of women or anything like that. I just would like to punch the next one of these starlets who doth protest their sex appeal too much, particularly if she's doing so having just pranced around half naked in a Justin Timberlake video.

If you're that hot, I say just go with it, enjoy it, and stop bugging us with your whining.