Here is the cover of the recent French Vogue magazine: Link
Apparently some women’s groups have taken exception to it:
Personally I am not seeing it and I think these women’s groups are making a fuss over nothing.
All I see is a passionate embrace. I see no “choking”. The woman is obviously not in distress and the man is clearly not attacking her or remotely choking her. His hand is on her throat but that does not equate to choking. On more than one occasion I have done something similar with my female partners and never, not once and not even close, was the woman remotely distressed. It was fun sexy time for both. No violence whatsoever.
That said perhaps I am missing something so figured to ask for opinions here.
It really doesn’t look very violent or shocking to me. Honestly, from the description, I was expecting something much more blatantly offensive than that.
The link that led me to this had me expecting worse as well.
In fact the title of the link (which I forget now) was not even alarmist. It merely noted that there was some controversy. So, I expected to see something controversial. Not a sexy picture displaying passion.
I think these women’s groups do themselves and women in general a disservice by making a fuss over something like this.
To be sure violence towards women is a problem and bringing awareness of it to the public is an important part of trying to stop it.
This is crying wolf though and diminishes these group’s credibility. Worse, it obscures what is real violence and makes it easier to dismiss them when they point out legitimate acts of violence.
Meh. Pretty much a standard “man being affectionate to woman” scene. They might as well claim a kissing scene is violent because he might be biting her lips off.
Feminist here. The hand on the neck is a bit disconcerting, but the expression on the woman’s face makes it pretty clear she isn’t suffering in any way.
I’m sure there are far more offensive things inside the magazine.
Misogynistic male chavanistic pig here. The only time I could have seen that as promoting violence againt women is if had borne the legend “beat the shrew until she becomes docile”. And even then, I would have been puzzled at why they selected a picture with such an affectionate pose.
I have my own theory about why it happened, and why it looks a little off.
I think in that sort of arrangement, he’d be more likely to caress her cheek. However, the magazine paid big bucks to get a model on the cover, and they’re not going to want any part of her face to be hidden. And so we get a slightly odd pose of the guy’s hand on her neck.
Seems to me that the grayscale color scheme pretty clearly suggests an “artistic” “homage” to the current blockbuster chick-lit bondage porn “novel” 50 Shades of Grey.
So I vote no, Vogue is just jumping on the consensual-BDSM bandwagon that that piece of “writing” has inexplicably launched. (Can you launch a bandwagon?)
