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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHustler Magazine Sparks Rage With a Rude Image of Pundit S.E. Cupp
Hustler has caused a squall by publishing an image of conservative pundit S.E. Cupp with a photoshopped penis in her mouth. Conservatives and liberals alike are sounding off on the magazine for misogyny, but Cupp has said the protest isnt loud enough. Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler, says it is too loud.
The headline on the Hustler piece poses the question, What Would S.E. Cupp Look Like With a Dick in Her Mouth? The magazine goes on to criticize Cupp, a conservative columnist for The New York Daily News and author of the book Why Youre Wrong About the Right, for her political views. Her hotness is diminished, the magazine says, when she espouses dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/24/hustler-magazine-sparks-rage-with-a-rude-image-of-pundit-s-e-cupp.html
Archae
(46,364 posts)Larry Flynt though is the bigger one.
FarPoint
(12,472 posts)He's a trailblazer.
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)"Her hotness is diminished," the magazine says, "when she espouses dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood."
....what's wrong with the above? It's a porn magazine for heaven sakes, everyone should lighten up....do you have a better idea on where to place a dick on her?....let us know....
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)SCOTUS rulings of the last thirty years in the Falwell case. Every civil libertarian owes him thanks for that.
FarPoint
(12,472 posts)He also was a strong Dennis Kucinich supporter....sponsored some fruitful fundraisers for him in Vegas...There are many reason to tip ones hat off to Larry Flynt. He is a bold fella thats for sure.
Archae
(46,364 posts)He's a publicity hound, willing to say or do anything to shove his porn on everyone.
And here? Oh right! Since SE Cupp is being an asshole, let's just photoshop her with a dick in her mouth!
This is juvenile and unnecessary.
If Flynt is someone to be admired, then we might as well embrace the Teabaggers.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as he has done with many male political figures, would have been more, um, appropriate.
Archae
(46,364 posts)Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Larry Flynt is all talk, when it comes to his offensive remarks about individual women.
The Tea Party has been all action, about rolling back the rights of women AND all working class Americans at least a hundred years.
I dare anyone to compare the damage done to women by Larry Flynt vs the Tea Party and show how he comes anywhere close to the Tea Party. He's not even in the same galaxy as they are.
ck4829
(35,094 posts)She is insane, her book 'Losing Our Religion' is a screed about how evolution is an enemy of Christianity and the lack of Christian fundamentalists getting special treatment by the government means that religion is under attack. Fun person.
"but Cupp has said the protest isnt loud enough"
In other words... Free publicity!
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)seen her many times on fox before she started showing up on msnbc.
Today,Barbara walter,whoopie and the rest of the women on the View said we as women now need to stand behind her and write to the magazine or whoever published this pic.
I haven't read or looked at this article but I have seen it in passing.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Bucky
(54,087 posts)Times two in this case. I hate it when the people on the left think it's okay to sexually demean women because they're conservative women. It's the least liberal thing you can do.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Do you see him being a crybaby about it?
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Obama doesn't gain PR from being a cry baby. It's in Ms Cupp's economic interest to whine about being publically abused.
For the record, I think there's a big difference between calling a man a crybaby and photoshopping a cock into a woman's mouth.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Ms Cupps is a dumbass and is being called out for in a way that Flynt has done for years. She isnt being singled out or victimized, she is in a long line of asshats that have taken this "award".
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Dammit, I hate being ummed. Anyway, your argument that Larry Flynt has being doing this sort of thing for years doesn't exactly refute the point that it's misogynist.
treestar
(82,383 posts)have no grounds on which to complain, after all, they support the patriarchy so let them live with the consequences of that.
OTOH, I think it's horrible. Though maybe we should not see it as horrible. Is this not considered a normal sexual act, so why should it be a bad thing? Interesting.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Not only is she an idiot but she thinks she is the only one Hustler has done this to.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)are we cheering this?
nah.... fllint doesnt demean women. just a funny.....
progressive. booyah.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)It is another version of "asshole of the month".
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)simply brilliant.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)She seems like a douchebag and Hustler called her on it. BFD.
Why have you never got bent out of shape by the way they protray Obama?
Bucky
(54,087 posts)I know, it's not hate speech when WE say it about THEM, right?
Huster exists to demean women. Yes, they go after men sometimes too. But by its very nature, sexualized photoshopping of women is different than the same photoshopping of men. If you don't see that, you've not been paying attention to the pornographication of mass media.
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....I know you're not addressing me, BUT, it's a porn magazine, not mass media....people buy a porn magazine with the expectation of seeing dicks and pussies on every page....
....therefore, it's difficult to make political commentary or have porn in a porn magazine without involving men and women or their sex parts....
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)You have heard of the movie, "The people vs Larry Flynt"? That was a man who got his feathers in a ruffle because Flynt satirized him.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)There is no double standard because Flynt isn't a voice for the left. No left wing group is going to install a bust of Larry Flynt at the state house. No half intelligent person is going to claim showing a picture of anyone with a dick in their mouth is valid social commentary. The right is trying to generate outrage over this because not enough on the "left" have voiced outrage over this, as if it's equivalent to Limbaugh calling a womans' activist a prostitute.
Is Flynt demeaning to women? Sure. Do I feel the need for outrage over this? Not really.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Bleach your hair, get some contacts, and go to Fox News.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)S. E. Cupp is also sexist and generally awful, so you'd think they'd get along.
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Sadly, being a generally disagreeable egomaniac isn't the kind of shared cultural value that translates into smooth interpersonal relationships.
eg, Martha Stewart and Donald Trump.
JVS
(61,935 posts)It's never been known for good taste.
Neue Regel
(221 posts)Boy, wouldn't that be swell! He he! Ha ha!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
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MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)It's satire, clearly marlked and explained. I can see people being offended but that's the point. Being provocative is what Flynt does, he's also honest and often right.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Raising him on the collective DU shoulders for shoving a cock into the mouth of a woman who is to be hated because of what she thinks.
This is no surprise considering DU'ers will defend a man calling a woman a C*NT because she's on the wrong side politically, as quickly as they'll demean transsexuals by snidely claiming a hated conservative woman must have once been a man.
DU would be having a level three meltdown if The Weekly Standard asked "What Would the Secretary of State Look Like With a Dick in Her Mouth?" Substitute FLOTUS for Secretary of State and I can almost guarantee someone would ask if legal action was possible for such disrespect.
Doesn't it give you a kind of sick feeling to imagine seeing under that question a picture of Hillary Clinton with a cock photoshopped into her mouth? How about seeing Michelle Obama's lips photoshopped around a cock?
It does me. No more sick though than seeing ANY OTHER WOMAN placed in the same position. No more sick at all.
Just think how many times Larry Flynt has pulled his wallet out in order to entice one or more women into sexual acts in order to satisfy his urges... the same urges he finds in enough people to keep funding his particular form of misogyny.
Then carry him on DU's collective shoulders because he demeaned someone on the wrong side of the political fence.
As far as I'm concerned: Fuck Larry Flynt and the wheelchair he rolled in on.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Put a big cock hanging off the House of Saud and stuck it in George Bush's mouth..
Maybe you should try to get on their editorial staff
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)qb
(5,924 posts)This is protected speech, and if it were ignored rather than trumpeted in the headlines, the impact would be much less.
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)this was a vile attack that is unacceptable. If it is wrong to attack Sandra Fluke in such a manner, it is wrong to do so to Ms. Cupp. Anyone who was outraged when Ms. Fluke was attacked but thinks it's OK to do so to Ms. Cupp because they don't like her politics is a hypocrite and is as bad as Rush.
MineralMan
(146,341 posts)Stuff like this is way beyond legitimate political speech. He has the right to do it, I suppose, but he's not right to do it. Celebrating that man is something I will never do.
Broderick
(4,578 posts)He made a big difference many years ago, but I think it is relatively minor efforts now to make sure he stays in the news somehow. He demeans women. They are objects to him. We don't need to devalue women to get a point across politically.
Nothing to celebrate really.