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Call me a bigot if you like (I don't care), but I feel sorry for these poor confused people.
You are not a bigot. You are a regular person who is calling out a publication for trying to pass off a mental illness as something completely normal that should be accepted by mainstream society.
If the obese woman on the cover didn't cost them readers, I don't think this cover will.
I don't have a problem with it, but I see I'm in the minority on that.
Yeh.. agreed. Didn't cause problems with Victoria Secret either. Not my thing but I see no problem with it either. I would certainly understand if it triggers insecurities in certain people.. though. I think the wider public (outside of CD) really don't care.
So people are Bigots (Racist, Sexist, Homophobic) now if they DISAGREE with your idiocy?
If you want to single out a group of people and deny them the same opportunities as the rest of us, yup.
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Originally Posted by ClaraC
This is about marketing, though, to paying customers.
I'm absolutely in favor of people living their lives the way they want, and self-identifying as they wish. Everyone just gets one life, and should be allowed to live in the way they see fit.
This is different, though. This is a marketing move, that probably won't go well. Maybe the editors realize the end is coming and want to make one more big salvo over the bow before they sink.
The swimsuit edition is their most popular publication, and it's comparable to a regular customer going into a favorite restaurant and saying "surprise me"! to the chef, and waiting on what interesting and delicious food is about to be served up. Based on what the chef believes the customers want. And out comes liver and onions with lima beans. Something a very few, but hardly anyone, thinks is delicious.
Sports Illustrated has basically thumbed their noses at their customer base, IMHO. Maybe just to be "fresh" and "out there", as they've kind of been in the past with the swimsuit edition, but they were "out there" in a way that was pleasing to their male customers.
I’m sure it wasn’t a spur of the moment decision and they likely held focus groups to get feedback.
If it loses subscribers over it than that’s a risk they took and will have to deal with.
For the record: Bruce Jenner looks hideous as a woman! What is his new name?
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