Yummy Keira and Scarlett
Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson are making news with their [cover] for Vanity Fair.
Vanity Fair spokeswoman Beth Kseniak said it’s too early to say how the magazine is selling, but that it has scored about 3,000 new subscriptions and almost 5 million web site page views.
Some of that buzz has been negative. “The whole cover just seems faux-racy to me,” says Siobhan Burns, a New Yorker in her mid-30’s who reads the magazine in her office. “And why, in 2006, do women still have to take their clothes off and look pouty, rather than being heralded for their accomplishments?”
My counter-question is, “why on earth does it have to be one or the other?”
Why can’t women take their clothes off AND be heralded for their accomplishments? I’ve not read the accompanying article, but I doubt that the meteoric career paths and recent acting kudos bestowed on the lovely naked misses are ignored.
Pseudo-feminism is tiring, to me. Rebecca Traister is just fine as a writer (even if I might still be smarting that she interviewed me once for a Salon story and then I didn’t get quoted in the final article)… but are we sure that Tom Ford’s being clothed on that cover while the women were naked is really an “over-the-top [o r g y] of self-love, misogyny and outright idiocy”?
I’m just saying there are plenty of actual occurrences of misogyny and outright idiocy out there in the world… ones we would be far better served criticizing and examining… then two hot [unclothed] chicks on a magazine cover.
