Neal Pollack published an utterly sexist post on Salon.com about his experience at a yoga class above his level, involving a talk on ethics. During the talk on ethics, he threw a temper-tantrum because he thought the yoga instructor was dumb and brainwashed. This is how he described her:

You've had many yoga instructors who've looked like her, except that she was hotter by a degree of ten.*

Why does Neal Pollack think the yoga teacher's rating as a sex object is the important detail for the readers' understanding of this interaction? His weblog post about her, which he chose to title Die, smug yoga teacher, die, doesn't offer many hints.

Her "hotness" was mentioned just once more in the post (which is only an excerpt from, regrettably, an entire book Neal Pollack decided to write on yoga, fart jokes, and gender dynamics), in the context of her teaching assistants:

[F]or the love of Krishna, if you're a sexy Manhattan broad at the height of your powers, don't pawn your extra vinyasas off on underlings!

Those "underlings," as Neal Pollack is sure you are wondering, “looked kind of like massage therapists” to him.

Shorter** Neal Pollack:

I got stoned, went to a yoga class, stared at the yoga teacher's tits, and found her intellectually lacking. To counter her anti-intellectualism, I yelled bullshit and stormed out. After engaging in self-examination for about six months, I realized that yoga teacher was a smug, preachy bitch.

* I think Neal Pollack meant a factor of ten.

** The ‘Shorter’ concept was created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. I stole the concept from Roy Edroso. This is my first attempt.

Update: a review of Neal Pollack's book, Stretch.