Comments on: Comparing Women of Color and Animals (NSFW)

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By: ongoalucinogeno

ongoalucinogeno — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:59:26 +0000

Sorry for the “ourselves”, I´m still learning. :)

By: ongoalucinogeno

ongoalucinogeno — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:54:47 +0000

I must say to everyone, this photo is from photographer Dave LaChapelle, and the girl in the picture is Naomi Campbell.
Apperently, this photo was shoot for a nude pictorial for playboy magazine back in 1999. Check for ourselves : http://www.lachapellestudio.com/celebrities/naomi-campbell/?ci=140

By: jessica

jessica — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:40:52 +0000

wow this is disgusting and racist

By: Juli

Juli — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:58:20 +0000

“Also, it is reasonable to have a non-white woman pose with the animal considering the magazine was published in a country where most likely the majority of the population is not white.”

How dumb can one be, Lord???

It is OBVIOUS that they chose to put a woman of African descent over a non-African one (which is what is usually used on magazines in countries where most of the population isn’t of African descent) because of the bestiality of the whole thing! As if it would be something more likely to happen because “Africans already live alongside with animals, after all!!!”
And ANYONE, when thinking about the subject, would picture a man doing the act, since bestiality is something that is more common among men! This is terrible!

By: Amarantha

Amarantha — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:38:34 +0000

Steve might not feel so lightly about “nudity” if the cover featured full frontal nudity of a man, instead of a woman. I have a feeling that kind of nudity would make Steve uncomfortable.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:13:47 +0000

I like how there’s also an article on power drills. This magazine really covers all the bases.

By: heatherleila

heatherleila — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:11:15 +0000

Yeah, I agree with Mary Tracy. It’s not just that she’s naked, she’s in a very sexual position, if not actually simulating sex with the jaguar. If you work in an office with a sexual harassment code, this could put you at risk for offending someone enough to report it. And I don’t disagree with that; if someone were looking at porn every day in the cubicle next to me, that would really bother me.

Thanks to the people who run this site for putting up the disclaimer. I often look at the site at school and I wouldn’t want anyone mistakenly thinking I was looking at porn for recreation instead of the recreation being the analysis of it!

By: Mary Tracy

Mary Tracy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:15:38 +0000

“be more comfortable with nudity”

What you call nudity, some of us would consider pornography.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:41:54 +0000

Wow, I butchered that last post. I wish I could edit it. I meant 3/4, not 2/3. Also, here is the link explaining the magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muy_Interesante

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:39:01 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t see where the magazine was originally published before I made my previous post.

In light of this I did some research and Muy Interesante was first published in Spain in 1981, but is now published in Mexico, Argentina, and Columbia. Unless there is a different publication for each country, 2 of the 3 countries are in Latin America. If 2/3 of the readers are Latino (which in itself is a debatable term), then I still see nothing wrong with posting a Latina woman on the cover.

Also, I’ve lived in both Spain and Mexico, and I think it’s interesting that this image is considered NSFW. We really need to lighten up in the U.S. and be more comfortable with nudity.

By: Mary Tracy

Mary Tracy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:27:58 +0000

The woman in the cover is clearly a “latina”, meaning from Latinamerica, which makes it all the worse considering the overt racism towards latinos in Spain. I doubt they would have had the nerve to put a traditionally “spanish” read: white woman in a similar position.

What I think people are missing is that the woman is in all fours, the jaguar is in all fours, and the pelvis of the latter appears “too close for comfort” to the bum of the former. I don’t need to spell it out, the intentions of the producers of this cover are very clear, especially when you consider the headline of the cover’s story.

heatherleila, the question does indeed refer to falling in love with actual animals, not with “animal like” people.

Note that in Spain it is legal and socially acceptable to expose women’s breasts in the covers of magazines.

By: heatherleila

heatherleila — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:36:04 +0000

Couldn’t it just be a metaphor and not referring to actual bestiality? If someone were to say “(S)He’s an animal in bed”, no one would think that person means they actually wish he were a real animal- it means he’s aggressive in bed. Maybe he scratches or bites. Could the question really mean “Can we fall in love with someone who is animal-like in bed?” Isn’t there often the idea that you don’t settle down with the person who is the best in bed- you settle down with the virgin or bread-winner? Because people who are crazy in bed can’t lead normal lives? Some people think that.

I agree with the comments that the woman is in a stereotypical pose often used with non-white women. She looks very cat-like. And she is very exposed- even the jaguar has fur to cover him up.

By: gwen

gwen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:36:51 +0000

Ole–I think for at least some people, this wouldn’t be ok for work, since she’s naked (even though you can’t see anything), so just to be safe, I put that in there–a number of readers have asked us to be a little more cautious after they’ve pulled up something at work that could have caused problems for them.