This is a cover of Vogue featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen. Notice the postures: LeBron as the hulking, angry black man, and Gisele as arm candy. Apparently this issue has a whole section on "the World's Top Models and Star Athletes." Hmmm, I wonder what the gender breakdown is?
Thanks to Carmela Z. for sending this image along!
3 comments:
March 14, 2008 at 11:01 PM
This is totally reminiscent of King Kong and, therefore, totally is in line with our tradition of associating black people with apes. Gross.
March 21, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Jemele Hill of ESPN had an interesting take on this
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/080320&sportCat=nba
March 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Interesting that you make no mention of one of the articles they advertise, "Perfect Fit: Dressing for every shape from size 0 to 16". Size 0 to 16 is hardly "every shape" and serves to further the thin-centric, fat-phobic culture we have developed.
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