The XX Factor: What women really think.

Washington Cool Watch, Cont.

Screaming as they ran for their lives, hundreds of hotties in heels toppled over barricades along W. 55th St. … By the time the model madness ended, six women were injured and two women and one man were busted for inciting a riot, authorities said.

"The girls were running like it was 9/11 part two," said Jennifer Brown, 27, of Kensington, Brooklyn. "I feared for my life."

Apologies for disrespecting those whose modeling dreams were crushed Saturday, but HA! Compare that to the civil proceedings that went on in our nation’s capital earlier in the month: Several thousand women—literal “shorties” this year, at the behest of the ever-enterprising Tyra Banks—tried out without incident. The Washington Post writeup painted a rosy picture:

"D.C.'s off the chain," casting director Michelle Mock-Falcon happily wrote in a text message to the show's producers … Proving that nothing -- bank failures, real estate foreclosures or a stock market freefall -- can dampen the spirit of young people with a dream, women from the Washington region and beyond waited patiently for hours in one line, then a second, and yet another, to get into the secret chamber for their casting call.

And, I submit, the caliber of analytic thought at the DC tryouts was exceptionally high:

“What is the craziest thing you have ever done?" was one question. Apparently, these women were not particularly crazy in the grand scheme of crazy: "Coming here" was a common answer.”