Cheer Up Charlies
Last Cover Very Inappropriate
RECEIVED Tue., July 12, 2011
Dear Editor,
Ashamed: A young woman smiling with two men sandwiching her with the suggestion of their penises either going between her legs or into/toward her mouth covered by "XXXX." This on the front cover of your paper [“The Right Snuff,” Music, July 8]. I don't care if it's a picture from 1977 or a lead-up to a story about some counterculture icon of Austin. So much for all the work women's movements have done to quell the exploitation of themselves by men. Some things just don't change. What a sad visual, influential message this is for our young people who read your paper. Was it meant to get a laugh, shock value, what? Certainly there must have been other images about the icon that would have drawn people to read about him. This image is just wrong. Then I looked up your email address, and the opposite page was an ad, "That's American Apparel." Just ashamed. Then again I guess if it's accepted by the current culture, why not print it?
Ashamed: A young woman smiling with two men sandwiching her with the suggestion of their penises either going between her legs or into/toward her mouth covered by "XXXX." This on the front cover of your paper [“The Right Snuff,” Music, July 8]. I don't care if it's a picture from 1977 or a lead-up to a story about some counterculture icon of Austin. So much for all the work women's movements have done to quell the exploitation of themselves by men. Some things just don't change. What a sad visual, influential message this is for our young people who read your paper. Was it meant to get a laugh, shock value, what? Certainly there must have been other images about the icon that would have drawn people to read about him. This image is just wrong. Then I looked up your email address, and the opposite page was an ad, "That's American Apparel." Just ashamed. Then again I guess if it's accepted by the current culture, why not print it?
Kathy Hull
