This is his real cover:
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That is a bit more Benedict-y.
That's better.
Lol. I knew someone would try that.
But until he's all greased up, wearing silly 'provocative' underwear and sucking a lollipop, I still refuse the skank label.
Needlessly topless and wet, whoever the photo is originally of. That's exactly the male equivalent of your bitchy moaning. You bunch of misogynists.
If a woman was posing like that where all you could really see was her back (and she wasn't doing moronic faces and sex doll pouty lips rubbish) I wouldn't claim it was a skanky photo.
Quote: Aaron @ 12th November 2013, 4:49 PM GMTyour bitchy moaning.
Sorry, who's acting like a misogynist...? 
YOU ARE.
But I only hate you and you're not a woman. 
Aaron, no one ever even moaned!
And it's not anything like the same thing, I don't believe you don't already know that 
I'm going to try to find a photo that would make the point...
Quote: Hannah G @ 12th November 2013, 5:04 PM GMTAnd it's not anything like the same thing, I don't believe you don't already know that
It is exactly the same thing. You two are just being hypocritical and obtuse in refusing to acknowledge it.
Quote: zooo @ 12th November 2013, 4:59 PM GMTBut I only hate you and you're not a woman.
WELL I HATE YOU TOO, BUMFACE VON HAAGENS.
I agree that the fake photo of Bumbersnatch is exploitative in a certain way, but it is not exploitative in the same way as the photos of topless women, or nearly naked and heavily airbrushed women. There is a culture of objectification that surrounds women that does not exist for men, and you have to view the glamour shots of women within that context.
For a slightly comic example, imagine if the male Avengers were posed like the Black Widow on the posters...
"You wouldn't like me when I goatse".
Quote: Harridan @ 12th November 2013, 6:15 PM GMTI agree that the fake photo of Bumbersnatch is exploitative in a certain way, but it is not exploitative in the same way as the photos of topless women, or nearly naked and heavily airbrushed women. There is a culture of objectification that surrounds women that does not exist for men, and you have to view the glamour shots of women within that context.
Sure, there are different societal norms and prisms through which media should be seen - but it doesn't mean there aren't equivalents, nor that we should blindly accept what pressure groups moan about being 'exploitative' as the limit or definition of what is and isn't acceptable along said lines.
There aren't always equivalents, though, and I don't think a topless man is the same as most of the scantily clad women on here, not least because men walk down the street topless in the summer, and very few women walk down the street in a sheer lace teddy.