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More analysis by Eve Grubin on that Fence cover...

This entry was posted by Ivy on Monday, December 05, 2005 at 3:27 PM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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At 12:54 AM, Blogger eeksypeeksy replied:

I read about it when it came out, but I haven't been following the discussion. I'm a bit lazy. And I'm wishy-washy about things like this. There are people who do nothing but think about women, and, depending on who I might ask, they could probably sway me to believe the Fence cover was just a hoot or that it was evil and exploitive or that it was a bit of both. All I know absolutely about nekkid women is that they sure are purdy.

It is certain (to me anyway) that the high sales of that issue were thanks to people noticing the only pair of breasts among all the vague covers of the other poetry magazines. Getting people to hold the product is a giant step to selling the product.

And though they should have known better, probably a good number of the buyers bought it because (consciously or not, and whatever their sexual orientation) they hoped for something a little sexier (and more interesting) than the usual poetry magazine.

So the magazine certainly exploited the image of a naked woman to make money. But I can't say whether the model alone or women as a group were hurt by the image. I'd have to know more about the woman to guess anything about her. As for women, I have a hard time imagining how that one picture could make things any worse for anyone in any significant way, but who knows? Maybe a few people thought, "Well, fuck it, now even a serious poetry magazine run by a serious woman editor says it's ok to slobber over titty shots and to use naked women to sell stuff and [etc.]. I give up. No more objection. I was wrong. If any of my students are looking for me, tell 'em I'll be correcting papers at Hooters all afternoon."

As for that appearance of that particular model: I don't think I remember what she looks like. I remember two larges breasts squeezed under her forearms. And maybe a pierced lip or eye -- I think I remember some metal. Yes, I just went and checked. I remembered the breasts and metal. The look-at-me attributes. Which I did, of course, look at.

Oh, it's late and I should be trying to reason with myself about this stuff.    



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