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Re: Editorial Cartoon: "Left-Wing Posters: What CAN Be Done?"

this poster is incredibly offensive on a couple of different levels:
1) it offends and alienates every blond woman with large breasts that has ever been called or been made to feel like a "blond bimbo"
2) it puts the news persons physical appearance on center stage - do you see the dead Iraqis in the poster? i don't, all i see is breasts.
3) it puts the person who is delivering what is a really angering news story (and is thus the object of some spiteful feelings from this audience)in a sexualized position. this makes it so that the target of the audience's anger is a sexualized woman. the last time that i checked having anger pointed in a sexualized manner was called SEXUAL VIOLENCE (in other words things like rape, stalking, harassment, etc). last time i checked sexual violence was not appropriate or funny or okay to use in political messaging for those professing to work for social justice
 
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