Is this magazine cover offensive?

[Dari]

He's a grown man, right? He agreed to it, right? WTF is the problem here? Want to be offended? Blame him, not Vogue.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
god these people must be bored out of their minds. GET A NEW HOBBY...

edit:I want the four people that voted yes to post, and I want to know skin color as well.

stop it, thats racist!

It's just so easy to do sometimes.

But really. Don't you think it would be interesting to know the percentage of non-blacks that voted yes?

 

[purbeast0]

i voted no and just don't know what to even say about this article ... pathetic.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: Xstatic1

?Here you have an image of a black male athlete in an exceptionally aggressive stance, wide footed, bending over, clutching her with his arm,? said Jason Rosenfeld, professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College. ?It?s one thing to have an athlete in that kind of pose and with that kind of expression on a court after he or she has done something miraculous. It?s another thing to couple it with someone who is of an entirely different ilk and gender. That turns it into a racially charged image.?

Why the scrutiny? LeBron is the first black man, and only the third man in Vogue?s 115-year history, to grace the high fashion mag?s cover.

?When you?re for the first time putting a black man on the cover, and this is the way you?re depicting him, it means that you?re going nowhere,? Rosenfeld said. ?Pose LeBron in the pose of a Greek God and pose her as a Venus -- then you?re upping the conversation.?

1.) Rosenfeld, in case you?re wondering, is white. Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion editor of the Washington Post and a former associate editor at Vogue, is black. And she doesn?t see what all the fuss is about.

2.) ?It?s so exhausting that every time people see an image of a black person they work themselves into a tizzy that somehow it doesn?t adhere to the way in which they think a black person should be presented,? she said.

1.) Of course he is. Liberal white men love to feel guilty, and love to make others feel the same way.

2.) Thank GOD for people like this. There is a severe shortage of people with their heads on straight in this world.

If it doesn't bother black people, white people need to shut the hell up about improper depiction of black people.

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One question?</a>

If you're making a point, it's apparently going over my head. Blazing Saddles is hilarious.

 

[antyler]

How is it offensive? they are both wearing clothes. And im assuming he is straight? whats being portrayed incorrectly here. Possibly, maybe possibly children who look up to lebron will all want to grow up and be with models.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I think it's the fact that it depicts him playing offense that's offensive.


But yes, it does make Gisele look like just another possession he's collecting. More offensive to women really than blacks.

 

[jjones]

The only thing offensive is the people who find it offensive.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: Xstatic1

?Here you have an image of a black male athlete in an exceptionally aggressive stance, wide footed, bending over, clutching her with his arm,? said Jason Rosenfeld, professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College. ?It?s one thing to have an athlete in that kind of pose and with that kind of expression on a court after he or she has done something miraculous. It?s another thing to couple it with someone who is of an entirely different ilk and gender. That turns it into a racially charged image.?

Why the scrutiny? LeBron is the first black man, and only the third man in Vogue?s 115-year history, to grace the high fashion mag?s cover.

?When you?re for the first time putting a black man on the cover, and this is the way you?re depicting him, it means that you?re going nowhere,? Rosenfeld said. ?Pose LeBron in the pose of a Greek God and pose her as a Venus -- then you?re upping the conversation.?

1.) Rosenfeld, in case you?re wondering, is white. Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion editor of the Washington Post and a former associate editor at Vogue, is black. And she doesn?t see what all the fuss is about.

2.) ?It?s so exhausting that every time people see an image of a black person they work themselves into a tizzy that somehow it doesn?t adhere to the way in which they think a black person should be presented,? she said.

1.) Of course he is. Liberal white men love to feel guilty, and love to make others feel the same way.

2.) Thank GOD for people like this. There is a severe shortage of people with their heads on straight in this world.

If it doesn't bother black people, white people need to shut the hell up about improper depiction of black people.

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One question?</a>

If you're making a point, it's apparently going over my head. Blazing Saddles is hilarious.

No, just thought of it while reading the posts. It's a shame a movie like that couldn't be made in todays anal retentive pc society.

 

[Mermaidman]

The photo was posed with poor judgement--Although it doesn't offend me, I instantly saw the similarities to racial stereotypes and could have predicted the potential fallout.

Go ahead and stone me. I voted against George Bush 2x, so I know how it feels to be in the minority.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Oh God fucking dammit. Really, America? REALLY? It's time to turn into the skid, and have Ladies Home Journal put a picture of Jennifer Aniston, in blackface, dressed up like Aunt Jemima and singing "Old Dan Tucker" on their front cover. Let's see what the whiney, uppity, pussified American public thinks of that one.

Jesus this kind of pseudo "Let's try as hard as humanly possibly to find something to be offended by about this" liberal attitude about race pisses me off.

+1

 

[mugs]

Hah... no.

Semi-related story though -
A long time ago, when I was young and naive, I was at the Sports Authority with my parents. There was a huge poster of Allen Iverson hanging up. He was hunched over, and he was dribbling a ball back and forth between his hands very low to the ground. His one hand that had just dribbled the ball was curled inward. Picture that in your head. I looked at the poster and said to my parents (in a not quiet voice), "he looks like a monkey." I meant gorilla, but I'm not sure that would have been any better. My mother told me that's not an appropriate thing to say, but I protested that he really did look like a monkey! I didn't mean that he physically resembled a monkey, I meant that he was posed like a monkey (gorilla http://www.gorillahub.com/dreamstime_gorilla%206.jpg). I did not know at the time that it's not polite to say black people look like monkeys.

 

[P229SAS]

On a side note, why can't white men be paired up with hot black women more often? It seems like the vast majority of interracial portrayals are black male white female.

 

[pyonir]

This pretty much sums it up: :roll:

 

[LongCoolMother]

wow. if anyone is offended by this cover, they should simply crawl into a hole and stay there.

 

[yowolabi]

I'm a black man, and I voted no. I did find that Golf magazine issue with the noose on it to be in poor taste, though.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
wow. if anyone is offended by this cover, they should simply crawl into a hole and stay there.

I clicked on the link before reading the article and thought that the link must've been messed up. I can't believe that anyone would be offended by it. I don't necessary like the photo, but the only thing to get offended at are those that still see a problem with a black man and a white woman.

 

[Saint Michael]

We know what sort of hangups this white professor has, now don't we? His wife must have a thing for... dark meat.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
We know what sort of hangups this white professor has, now don't we? His wife must have a thing for... dark meat.

Maybe she likes Alabama black snake?

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

They?re two of the most beautiful people on earth.

Have they seen his face?:shocked:

women usually aren't so picky on the face, obviously their face is buried in a pillow or something.

Dude's got game.

 

[Captante]

Crappy picture? Yes.

Offensive? No.

 

[IronWing]

A waste of cover space. Two women would have been mo betta.