The fiancee' posted this article to her blog. However, she does not seem to have comments turned on, so I'm posting my comment here. I suggest reading her article before reading my comment. I should also mention how happy I am to see her posting something of substance.
COMMENT:
I believe that what Ms. finds objectionable is that these strong women are being made into jokes or somehow stereotyped. With the titanium vodka ad, I suspect they don't like the idea of the concept of trophy wife being used in a humorous context, for all the implication in the ad that beautiful can be strong. Admittedly, I don't see the Terminator ad as being a joke; far from it. Summer looks pretty bad-ass in the picture. (For those who don't know, Summar Glau played River Tamm in Firefly and Serenity.) I have no idea why they have a problem with her unless it's the fact she's naked. For discussion of that, I suggest reading Defending Pornography by Nadine Strassen, a previous President of the ACLU. All that said, I have to note that this sort of lack of humor and perspective is what I would expect from Ms. Magazine. I also suspect, sadly, that many of their editors and readers will vote in the Presidential Primary based on gender of the candidates alone.
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