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Originally Posted by gmku
I think they portray womens rather nicely.
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Me too. They certainly "objectify" women, but in the tradition of fine art going back thousands of years, with a modern twist that is actually somewhat satirical of that objectification at the same time. After all, the covers show the women as beautiful in an expressionist manner that's almost surreal plastic, and meanwhile the singer sings about making love to a blow-up doll. Glam often toyed around with these types of images and ideas at the time, but Roxy was much more aware of it and using it as a statement about fashion and "culture".
I don't actually know any
women who find those covers sexist, and I lived in the Riot Grrl homeland for ten years.