Barack Obama is Ms. Magazine’s latest cover… errr… guy?
January 27th, 2009 by Lorna Bracewell in Commentary, Lorna Bracewell, News
Barack Obama (a dude who has been president for all of 8 days) is featured on the cover of Ms. Magazine’s Winter 2009 issue. The feminist rag’s publisher, Elanor Smeal, defends the choice in the issue’s preface: “When the chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation board, Peg Yorkin, and I met Barack Obama, he immediately offered ‘I am a feminist.’ And better yet, he ran on the strongest platform for women’s rights of any major party in American history.”
This is all true and awesome, but something about the cover just doesn’t feel right…
The 44th *male* American President posed in a visual allusion to Superman is just about the most sexist image I can imagine. If even our most staunch and ardent feminists are indulging in and perpetuating the fantasy that Barack Obama is the savior of the world, we’re in some serious trouble, girls.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:02 am
If he’s a feminist, I’m a lesbian!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/man_finally_put_in_charge_of
January 29th, 2009 at 9:02 am
TOO weird – not only does it seem disrespectful of the President to put him in a comic book character’s outfit, but superMAN leading the feminist cause? Doesn’t add up to me.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
i think that cover is grounds enough for bikini kill to reform and take over.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Lorna,
You may have a point but Steve and I want to know when is he going to be on the cover of an important magazine like Glamour or Cosmo?
Venus
February 13th, 2009 at 12:52 am
inexperience