Posted on 03/25/2008 9:23:19 AM PDT by yankeedame
03/25/2008
NEW YORK, New York (AP) -- A spokesman for Vogue says the magazine's April cover sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game.
But critics say it perpetuates racial stereotypes because they say Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James looks like King Kong in his pose with model Gisele Bundchen.
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HGTV and Scripps-Howard has been awarded for promoting “tolerance” and “diversity.”
What happened to the good, old-fashioned melting pot of Americans?
Just the fact that this is somehow racial, the race pimps are at it again.
Is she the one who said she doesn’t want to be paid in American dollars?
Not sure...
We’re homophobes and racists...
I could care less what color anybody is and don’t care what somebody does as long as they don’t push and agenda and make something wrong, right. It’s amazing how many people want to live in a guilt-free world.
But, I don’t like Democrats, Socialists, Marxists and Liberals.
Actually, if your race had been compared to monkey for generations ya think you might be sensitive to it?
This King Kong poster is close to the Vanity cover: http://www.antiquetrader.com/mark/content/binary/KingKong.jp
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More importantly, where are the agents and the athletes themselves stepping in to stop these types of photos?
Sounded like a rationalization and defense of those who are "offended". If I missed the underlying point that people who didn't pose shouldn't complain, I apologize.
I prefer equal opportunity offenses, myself.
Has anyone seen a bottle of grape Power-Ade lately? What with his tongue sticking out and all... It scares me to death. He looks more like Gene Simmons than King Kong.
By the way, the original King Kong is a movie about white’s fear of blacks (and especially the fear of the despoilation of white women) artfully disguised as a monster movie about a giant ape.
If racists hate people of a different race than they are, doesn’t it follow that a humanist hates humanity?
I’m a Jew... what’s your point. There are a billion people (muslims) in this world right now that think I’m no better than a pig or a monkey. I don’t need a harmless picture that plays on outdated stereotypes to insinuate it.
Ummm... No.
Look up humanist and try again...
oh brother
Really?? I always thought it was just a really bad "B" horror movie along the lines of "Attack of the 50 Foot Man" and "Godzilla" (I've been a horror movie fan since I was 5). They ALL have to have the beautiful, weak, helpless, ultimately brainless woman menaced by the alien, vampire, zombie, whatever who is sexually attracted to her. She is then daringly rescued from a fate worse than death and almost always anatomically impossible anyway - by the dashing male hero.
It's a convention left over from Victorian era literature. It's no different than the way a car ALWAYS pulls out in front of the good guys during any high speed car chase. People analyze it too much. You might as well say that the male zombies chasing the weak-minded, weak ankled woman...oh yeah, another convention is for the beautiful twit who's being chased to twist an ankle at a crucial moment...in the original "Night of the Living Dead" show the fear living men have for the sexual competition of mobile dead men.
reading your post again, maybe I missed your drift...
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HEAR, HEAR! (I admit that I get a bit tense whenever I see a group of young skinheads....I guess that makes me a racist)
AH, SOOO....a real racist loves people of all races? (I was JOKING)
Isn't that rather, um, racist of the "critics"?
Why countenance any picture that plays on defaming stereotypes?
On the contrary, King Kong is a truly great iconic movie with a set of fascinating psychological and social themes embedded in it. There is the obvious "beauty and the beast" theme (a subtile warning). If you look at some of the key scenes in the movie (the attempted negotiation for Fay Wray, the invasion of New York City and the destruction of the elevated train and of course the ever present theme of rape) you'll see that, at least on the unconscious level, the creators of the film were grappling with racial issues. Cinematic art can do that - it uses symbolic and associational material to reflect underlying concerns. This is not a case of "overanalyzing" a movie - to the person who watches King Kong with an open and thoughtful mind, you will see all these themes presented.
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