Originally Posted Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Nothing says, 'I'm a powerful woman' like a photo of you upside down on a weird couch," Stan Horaczek, an editor at Popular Photography, said on Twitter. "Nice work, Vogue.
Stan Horaczek is an expert. On what? Have you ever seen the magazine Popular Photography? They have never run an image this beautiful. Again, I ask the question. I don't remember his comment when images of Bush fils in iconic cowboy poses were published let alone in military garb on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Somehow certain gender based iconic images are O.K.
Finally, I can use the word "misogynist." I hate the way the word is tossed around today. It has lost its power. It has become trivialized. But anyone who descries this image is one in my view. Misogynist.
You know this fellow Horaczek has a pack of pornographic playing cards tucked away somewhere. He's O.K. with that but not with this. Really, Horaczek, it's O.K. It's nothing to be ashamed about.
I haven't heard officially, but I imagine the Muslim Brotherhood came out against this image, too, though from what I've heard about bin Ladin, he loved his porn. O.K. My bad. I'm conflating the two. It seemed convenient. Sorry.
What they really hate (those haters who hate, I mean), is that Yahoo bought Tumblr, that reservoir of filth. Everything you can imagine, everything you've ever wanted to see or desperately did not want to see in your lifetime is pictured there. They pull down images from time to time saying that they violated something or other, but I can never figure out what. Not that I spend any time there. Just saying.
But maybe what the haters hate about Mayer is that she will no longer allow employees at Yahoo to work from home. Or not work, as they say. Everyone at Yahoo must now show up to the office. And reportedly, that is working out well.
I've been wracking my brain for a word that means "whore" but is not gender specific. Whoring, really. I like that Mayer is bucking the trend of "everything from home." Home is not for working. It cannot be a healthy relationship, I think. The last thing I want to do at home is work. I've never had a home gym because I don't want that association in my mind. Home is something else. Home is for living, not for working. So I am thinking about the online revolution in education where everybody can work from home. I want to say that the universities are whoring, but it is too gender specific in connotation if not denotation, and I don't wish to be labeled a misogynist like Stan Horaczek who has his own ideas about how to picture power.
The question on my mind before I read about Mayer today was this: would you rather your daughter be smart or beautiful?
False dichotomy, right? Some (but not all by any means) might wish for both.
Me? I just want to get Mayer in my photo series. She can be the madame.
What?! You're calling me a. . . what?!
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