Sports Illustrated's 2013 Swimsuit Issue; Katie Upton is on the
cover again but another issue is if they are "
perpetuating racial stereotypes by drawing power and class lines between the Westernized models and the 'primitive locals'" as
Jezebel Mag Hag argues....hmmm, there are a few pictures on the
Yahoo!News link (fast heading toward eleven thousand comments!) but the Jezebel website has far more: surely adding to the exploitation if any existed. "
People are not props", they say, 'Why not?' I ask and they tend to shoot themselves in the foot by adding
"Using people of color as background or extras is a popular fashion trope... ...But although it's prevalent, it's very distasteful". Eh? People of colour? Half the models are people of colour and is it OK if the 'props' are white people? Anyway, the hat-tipee
Weasel Zippers makes a good point about Yahoo!News' saying that the "
reaction has been mixed, even among the men who are supposed to be titillated":
"Someone needs to tell Yahoo! News the men who comment on liberal feminist blogs are not even remotely representative...".
Interesting factoid: The swimsuit edition
'has become one of Time Inc.’s biggest revenue drivers over the years, bringing in more than $1 billion' [
Forbes] Wow.
3 comments:
Thanks for the Weasel Zippers link best laugh of the week (so far)
Often the comments there can be worrying! I have no doubt it is being monitored.
Actually it helps if you read some of the comments in the accent of a white guy from the Southern States!
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