Vogue Accused Of Portraying ‘Domestic Violence’ On Their Recent Cover
This recent cover of Vogue Hommes International, featuring none other than Stephanie Seymour, is under fire. Women’s Right Advocacy groups and critics have accused Vogue of glorifying and portraying ‘domestic violence’ on the cover.
Four organizations (Families, Safe Horizon, Equality Now, and the New York chapter of NOW) have wrote in stating:
“Choking is not a fashion statement, and certainly not something that should be used to sell magazines.”
“This truly disturbing image of a woman being choked sends a dangerous message to anyone who sees this magazine – that choking is a sign of passion rather than of violence.”
“A 2008 Journal of Emergency Medicine study of murders of women in 11 cities found that 43per cent of women who were killed by intimate partners had experienced at least one previous episode of choking before being killed. That is why, in 2010, New York State made choking a violent felony, and advocates, prosecutors, police officers and survivors throughout the State have embraced the law as a way to save women’s lives. In New York, your magazine appears on numerous newsstands and has enormous reach with young men and women. While this cover was perhaps intended to shock and thrill potential readers, the truly shocking fact is that it glorifies violence against women as an act of love.”
Seeing this cover for the first time, do you feel this cover depicts domestic violence, or do you feel that people are overreacting?
[Via Daily Mail]
