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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:22 PM Feb 2013

Would there be mass outrage if The Onion posted a story & pic like this- with the genders reversed? [View all]

Let's say a male internet news mogul, standing on a stage in front of a semi-naked female body assembled from the apparently chopped up parts of many different women, chained at the arms?



Oh my God- the Sociology Grad Student Theses almost write themselves; "Objectification Theory In Action- Reassembled Female Body Parts as sick "humor" and the male gaze internet pornification of society"


As it is, I haven't really been paying attention to how HuffPo has reorganized itself, so I admit I don't totally get the joke. But there it is.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/arianna-huffington-unveils-new-huffington-man-aggr,31477/

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