Word: cartoons
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...Cartoon Objectifies...
...shocked and dismayed that The Crimson would print the cartoon ("The Ideal Harvard President," Feb. 14) by Jason Farris, an illustrator for Maxim magazine. Why would this figure, with its dysmorphically thin, highly-available female body and Albert Einstein's head be "ideal" as president? Because he or she would be smart--"like a man"--but also sexually available? Or because his or her male students could ogle and leer while walking to class...
...understand that this cartoon was intended as some sort of joke, but the implications inherent in such a representation demean and objectify women nonetheless. Presumably a woman's head could not possibly signify the requisite intellectual capacity to be president of Harvard; it seems that all of our icons of genius are male. The objectification of a female, anorexic body sprawled across the pages of a supposedly serious newspaper is even more unconscionable...
...idea that makes a lot of sense. Popular websites draw so many millions of visitors that even tiny fees can add up quickly. I probably wouldn't have paid $60 a year to use icebox.com the smart, edgy online cartoon site that went belly-up last week. But I would have been happy to pay 20[cents] every time I watched a new episode of Zombie College...
...advertising campaign dissing American beef imports and assuring its customers that under the French Golden Arches, they'd get French meat that came "from the farm" (rather than from some factory or laboratory). Clearly, the plucky little farmer had managed to don the mantle of Astérix, the cartoon character whose mythical David-vs.-Goliath fight against the Roman occupiers symbolizes French national pride. Some 45,000 people from all over the country crowded into Millau for a protest rally during his trial - and the local McDonald's kept its doors closed throughout the two days of hearings...