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Visual dismissal?

Submitted by erinhurt on Thu, 2008-03-27 17:12. | | |

I ran across an interesting blog on Lens Culture that argues that a recent French magazine cover (posted below) equates Obama to a young, inexperienced boy.
Cover of April issue of French magazine Enjeux
Blogger Jim Casper writes:

This magazine is currently on the racks at news stands all over Paris, and the cover image has become one of those giant back-lit advertisements that blare from the outsides of kiosks on the streets, and ads at bus stops, and posters lining the hallways of the metro stations.

Posing for your eating habits

Submitted by LaurenMitchell on Tue, 2008-03-25 20:43. | | | |

I’m wondering why the debate over meat-eating and the treatment of animals keeps happening on women’s bodies. This newest addition to the controversy happened on America’s Next Top Model when the contestants were taken to New York’s meat-packing district where they participated in a photo-shoot dressed in various articles of clothing made out of raw meat.

Three photographs of models posing seductively surrounded by hanging sides of beef.  Each model is wearing at least one article of clothing made out of meat as well as thigh-high boots.  There is a meat necklace, meat panties, and a meat halter-top.

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