What feminist looks like this?
By NewHampster on January 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM in Current Affairs
Editor’s Note:
Stay tuned for more to come on this from our writers.
This gross insult will get the FULL “No Quarter” treatment. That means you, Ms. magazine, and you, Barack Obama, who exploited sexism and misogyny to gain male voters, and continue with your selection of sexist males for prominent roles, including in your inauguration ceremony.
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NewHampster:
Yep. That is the cover of Ms. Magazine.
Thanks to Partizane friend Angrydem for the find over at Heidi Li’s.
I am now convinced that we are in fact in the Zone:
That image will be mounted on the wall of my office because it so completely represents the “1984″ nature of the campaign.
SwampSpirit already did some editing work on the cover. See it here
(Release: November 13)
on sale for only $16.95.
has a spatula.)
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Take ACTION Here:
http://pumapac.org/2009/01/10/i-cant-help-it/
Did you see who works for Ms. Magazine:
Columnist Donna Brazile
Consulting Editor Gloria Steinem
http://www.msmagazine.com/contact.asp
When I first saw this, I thought it might be a photoshopped joke, like the sexy Vogue cover featuring Sarah Palin. And so I went to the Ms. Magazine website, and, folks, it’s no joke. In fact, for $35 you can get a poster of this atrocity along with a subscription.
F*ck, I thought so too. What a piece of shit he is. I am even more outraged and insulted as a female, to see this piece of garbage being tied to my cause. How quickly we forget: hold on a minute Sweetie, how about a kiss for a vote, her claws come out, brushing off of the shoulder and flipping the bird, lipstick on a pig…
yup, that’s what neo-feminism looks like alright. Women are sometimes our own worst enemy.
Seriously…maybe for the MS next month’s issue they can use Fraudbama “scratching his face.” Or put a Lipstick Pig on the front. This stuff makes me embarrassed to be a woman.
Perhaps MS is simply catering to the needs of their anorexic readers. I certainly wanted to barf when I saw the picture.
That’s what I thought is was, a photoshopped joke. We have entered the twilight zone.
Thanks, kat,I wrote. Not going to let this one pass!!
thank you…I conveyed my thoughts to these people who claim to be for womens rights. Rights for what…to be the receipients of more sexism?? They’re disgusting.
I sent my letter in. I think I’m going to be sick. The media is over the top with their lies and telling people how to think.
What’s wrong with MS? They have lost it.
Its going to be FOUR very LOOOONG years.
Well, this caps it for me — the weird lefty feminism that produced this joke is not the feminism that is going to ever be able to do anything about the virtually permanent subordinate status of women in the US.
I think we will find that this new ‘feminism’ puts men front and center, and, for example, when revising the earned income tax credit, will be structured to make sure that men’s ’standard’ employment is promoted and that if there is a conflict between whether the male in a household gets to go to work with the support of the EITC or the female, it will be the one who can expect to earn the most and earn most like white middle-class males earn. All being done, of course, in the name of promoting racial equality (of racialized men) over sex equality (particularly of non-racialized women).
Welcome back to the 1920s-1950s, everyone: ‘A standard male wage for every household.’
BLECH-HACK-COUGH-ORK-SPEW-YACK-AWLG!!!!!!!
exactly!
cripes…I second that.
And thank you No Quarter/ NewHampster/ Swampspirit!
xo.
As a college teacher, I am used to having men claim to having men claim to be the real feminists. So what’s new? o
Ms Magazine has morphed into Ms-ogenist Magazine!
It’s utterly bizarre. Women are treated with such contempt in this country, forced to confine themselves to limitations from all sides–don’t be too smart; don’t be too aggressive; don’t be too pretty; don’t be too ambitious; don’t be, don’t be, don’t be; don’t be this; don’t be that.
Now, it’s apparently, “don’t be a woman,” because a “feminist” is a black man named Barack Obama who’s never done anything but insult women.
;o} bwahahahahahhahaha……….
Oh, nice name - I think that’s EXACTLY into what they have morphed.
And if HE is the definition of a feminist, I reckon I must be something else. Let me rephrase - if Obama is considered to be a feminist, I am most DEFINITELY something else.
Thanks for the piece, NH - disturbing as it is.
I’m going to join Sonic Ninja Kitty in the blech, cough, choke, spew now…
We really should DO something about this. What an attack on the entire women’s movement this is. The same guy who literally pissed on HRC and Palin is now some uber-feminist?
well said…..
Absolutely! What that cover says it “This is what Ms-ogynist Magazine looks like”. As in “We choose to hide under superman’s shirt, and nominate the man who used sexism as a Democratic campaign tactic as the hero who’s come to save us all. “Help, us, Mr. Man!”
oh h&ll no!!
The tee-shirt should read “this is what an empty suit, chicken sh*t, never made a decision he couldn’t flip flop on, female and gay bashing twit looks like”.
These “cuties” are usually on the back side of boxers.
Would Bo not bend over?
O Sassy, that’s really sassy of you.
He only bends over for Michelle. They both like it that way.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Using sexuality to demean is not the mark of a true feminist.
democrat -
Maybe it was a compliment? Who are you to judge?
lmao Tango, that was funny
Tango -
Funny!
Darnit, my comment got caught in the spam filter.
Writing on my blog about this.
Progressive men can certainly be feminists, but Barack Obama? pfft…
The first thing Obama will sign is the Lily Ledbetter Act for equal pay for women. But in your work, that’s not the act of a feminist. You folks are way out of touch, that’s for sure.
Has he actually signed it yet? Or will he do a FISA?
How can you be sure? FISA anyone?
Oh yeah, and the signing of one act does not a life long feminist make. Like, oh, Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin made those steps while the Democratic left did its imitation of Little Rock.
I can just about guarantee that The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act wont be the first thing Oblahblah signs. I am still waiting for my FISA filibuster, which I was promised by His Eminence ages ago. But I digress.
Ledbetter is not the litums test for “feminism”.
Ledbetter is one of those reactive pieces of legislation that congress passes (or doesnt pass) to make itself feel better and/or to corral certain voters - usually those voters that arent good at critical thinking.
The planet earth will still be rife with sexism with or without Ledbetter. And your candidate Mr. Obama did plenty to continue the trend.
Still eleven days before he can sign anything. Personally I think he’l do a FISA, if he is still Pres. after the inauguration date.
Will he start by upping what he pays his own female staffers? That would be a start! Maybe he could do that before he signs the never to be signed document as an act of good faith? Really. Just blow me.
Ledbetter is a bill concerning statute of limitations.
If you would like to really understand what we are talking about here, I would recommend the excellent blog thereclusiveleftist.com She has a series of articles entitled “If you vote for Obama, this is what you’re voting for”. They go from reminders #1 to 14, and comprehensively document everything we are alluding to here. Take a look at reminders #13 and 14 and you will need go no further.
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2008/11/03/1708/
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2008/11/04/if-you-vote-for-obama-this-is-what-youre-voting-for-reminder-14/
That’s a great resource Sonic.
Yes, Barack most certainly did - I recall the beginnings of his campaign when Barack did all he could to profit from the right-wing attacks on Hillary. It was a stab in the back to all Democrats. and I knew at that time this truly was a “new” kind of candidate.
With Obama, everything has always been in the future tense. His accomplishments? Nothing but a bunch of vague promises in speeches. Indeed, without the future tense, the concept of Hope has no power. Hope is believing that a better future will come to pass. He asks us to believe this as an article of faith, because we certainly can’t extrapolate a trend based upon his past actions, which would be the way rational people would try to predict the future.
We’ll see. But as of now, he sure hasn’t earned any part of that Superman suit. He’s a phony, a Clark Kent who brags about being Superman, but is really only a guy named Clark Kent who likes to strut around like a peacock and make everyone ooo and ahhh.
damn good first paragraph. and, spot on:
“who likes to strut around like a peacock and make everyone ooo and ahhh.”
Oh, silli me, I get it now. Obama had to go after Hillary with those misogynistic attacks so he could win the White House and sign legislation beneficial to women.
Yes. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
Oh god! Now I have a vision of Obama in a black leather studded thong banana hammock.
… With man-boob nipple chains.
ROFLMAO…Ewwwwww…..
“banana hammock” - that’s my favorite.
Wish I had Photoshop and the talent to make that imagery real.
Oh please someone post Fraudbama in the bondage gear. Wait, there’s probably a REAL pic of him with Steak Knife Rahm in the getup. ROFLMAO.
Rahm can wear his ballet gear–kind of a dark S&M version of Swan Lake.
That is wonderfully wicked; be careful of those lurking thought police.
I guess that answers any unanswered questions that may be left- women, we be f**ked! Ditto to what Sonic Ninja Kitty said…I feel a giant furball coming up…
Can anybody here advise me on the best SP sun blocker
to use on Jan. 20th when the skies open up and there
is sunshine all over the world…also i am worried about the people from other part’s of the world where it is supposed to be night time, is all of a sudden daytime…won’t they be confused?
I’m afraid the divine radiance emanating from The One will permeate all dark corners of the world and purify everything with the blinding light of Hope. In other words, like it or not, we’re all going to get our hides tanned.
our hides tannedburned.I read that 3 Priests/Ministers anoited the door to the inauguration stage with holy oil. So I’ll be waiting for all of the miracles to happen.
The only miracle I hope happens is that January 20th DOESN’T happen.
OMG! That is sacrilegious. He’s a Muslim as he admitted to Stephenpoopoulis. The pope is now saying, OSHIT!
All those alien space ships will be sending loving emissaries too.
Ms. should consider hiring “the Obama girl” to write a monthly column on ALL that Obama has done for women and plans to do in his first term.
Maybe put in under “Fiction”.
lol…
jon favreau might be available! perfect!
Strange, I broke out in hysterical laughing while simultaneously feeling like I would puke when I saw this Ms cover. I think it is clear that thinking women of all political shades need some new media, the corporate media and the feminist media are not going to fill the gap and address our “niche” group of 52% of the population so I think it is the well written even funny PUMA blogs that are taking up the market for thinking womens eyes. I can only hope that when the advertisers finally figure it out they will be held to some sort of standard so we don’t ever have to tolerate the unwatchable tit and ass advertising found in Vogue, and Oxygen. I mean would it be to much to test ads on actual groups of women so that ads that make women shut the magazine or change the channel are eliminated regardless of what the men who make them think?
good points
Now that I’m finished projectile vomiting -
Just be glad they didn’t show the creep’s manboobs (from too much dope smoking) for the millionth time.
Are people up in arms over the darkening of his skin for this photo or is he claiming to be AA now that the primary is over?
New Hampster is THE GREATEST!!
This is so sad. How can progress ever occur when women such as at “Ms.” identify with, indeed romanticize the source of abuse? Barack condoned, fostered, and engaged in sexist behavior - As I said, this is very sad.
I await the follow-up issue focusing on how Governor Palin is a big setback for all womankind.
Yeah cuz Governor Palin breathes and stuff.
However, she is the most fiscally responsible of all the Governors and is not yelling for a bailout.
Funny how a stupid hick from Wasilla pulled that off.
Bitches be breathing too much, yo.
I wrote in my blog that they’ll probably portray her as Lex Luthor with her head shaved.
if i had any relevant subscriptions left to cancel, i’d do so…
what a Ms-take. sure it wasn’t the April issue?
they just don’t get it, do they? even the lefties @ The nation are awakening from their trance — i don’t see any “This is what a left looks like” artwork coming from them!
“even the lefties @ The nation are awakening from their trance —:
how convenient to wake up now….and suffer no consequences. Don’t think so.
No, this is what the end of “feminism” looks like.
Move along, nothing inside this tent but an empty sucking sound, time to pitch a new one down the road apiece.
Good idea; perhaps we could put the stakes through Obama’s heart and he could no longer drink our blood.
[...] (read some of the comments, too). People are venting frustrations about the lies, deception and misogyny perpetrated during this election cycle. Funny stuff, but it does not bode well for the next four [...]
An analysis here, with commentary on the use of the “Superman” imagery:
http://hillaryorbust.com/2009/01/action-alert-ms-magazine-boycott/
When I saw this posted by sowsear last night I almost lost my lunch. Nothing, nothing is more disgusting than that cover. Well, MeChelle’s wardrobe is close…but OMFG how RIDICULOUS is America getting? We’re a nightmare and joke.
That woman apprently can’t make up her mind if she wants to dress up as an I Love Lucy clone or Vampira.
Anything to sell a magazine…even sell your soul!
Sad!
Good grief!
Heads so far up fundaments they can probably see daylight.
There sure will be a lot of mirrors cracking when they finally wake up - if they ever do.
Women hating other women makes it easy for men to continue stomping on our rights. Ms. Mag Rag is another MENtal slave to the patriarchy. As a woman, I am embarrassed for my gender.
Oh. My. God. I was sure this was a brilliant piece of irony put together by NQ, and I found it quite funny. Then I saw that no, this is not a fake. Oh. My. God.
So, now ‘feminism’ means ‘woman-hating’, is that the appropriation being attempted here? Ok, I’m now speechless, aside from curse words, so I’ll stop now.
Darn…. in grocery stores and books stores I’ve had to become like those old women who used to go around hiding books that might be too suggestive. I’ve actually found myself unable to stop my latest compulsion. I make sure that I go back when no one else is in the aisle so I can turn face down or backward all the books by O or in any way flattering to O.
The magazines are usually right at the checkout line. It will be hard to do this secretively. I will have to hire a shopper so I don’t get sick looking at him or get in trouble for this new compulsion.
RIGHT ON SISTER!! That is exactly what I do. I try to hide them behind mags on the back row that probably aren’t very popular and don’t get looked at much.
LOL!! I do the same thing!!
I do the same thing only I don’t care who sees me do it. I hide the books behind some other ones that no one will ever look at. I turn Magazines around to the back cover and when Globe does a truthful piece on Blowblahbama I open it up and prop it for all shoppers to see it when they walk by.
Argh…Ms is sickening.
Democrat, who do YOU think did the work on the Lily Ledbetter Act? I guess Hillary was right, it DOES take a President to sign progress.
Very strange that life-long feminists never noticed what was going on during the campaign. Guess that love is indeed blind (and dumb).
NOW is now WAS (Women’s Acquiescence Society). It’s been a horrible year for feminism, and this cover of Ms. is more than salt in the wound: it’s acid in the face.
I was trying to find circulation numbers for Ms, but kept finding articles from the 70s, which supports renaming NOW to WAS.
Ms. has another problem: they refused to run an ad showing the female face of Israeli politics. Between that storm and this one, Ms is either seeking to pick up readership or place itself into the dumpster with other Obama sellouts.
Do not attempt to adjust your TV set…..
We will control the dials…
For you have reached…..THE OUTER LIMITS!!!!
Ledbetter act won’t change anything when sexism is accepted. Equal pay for equal work-what do you think corporations primarily run by males will do? See a mass effort to reword job descriptions and change titles so they can justify not giviing equal pay to women. When these women start believing they are equal and live their lives accordingly, only then it will change.
Any man that wants to be a feminist is welcome to begin immediately by doubling his work load and cutting his wages in half.
Ms. Mag, circulation 100k…comfort in knowing this.
Was at Whole Foods getting my organic baby Romaine and saw at the check out, out of maybe eight stands, 3 with the face of the azzwipe on it. One, that insulting MS Mag, the other Atlantic Monthly with the title “Is White America Over?” And the third some azzwipe rag about “Yes you can…” done in black and white with head azzwipe in shades pointing at the camera looking oh soooo cool with that dumbass smirk on his azzwipe face.
That’s it for me, I’m going to another health food shop for my organics.
Not that I am encouraging vandalism, mind you, but a sharpie on hand would be useful in making little mustaches on that smirk of his.
Quite frankly, Sarah Palin is the Feminist of the year. She emodies all we worked hard for.
NOW is so in the tank for this fraudO it’s astonishing.
Totally reprehensible. Betty Friedan is rolling over in her grave as I write this.
Ms. is a desperate bore.