Outraged Readers Cancelling SI Subscriptions

[BlessedOne04]

What is funny that no one boycots King, or Maxim or any other mag with offensive images of women. what makes this different?

[SKEEphistAKAte]

Originally Posted by BlessedOne04

What is funny that no one boycots King, or Maxim or any other mag with offensive images of women. what makes this different?

This is different because a BLACK man is gripping a WHITE woman's butt with a "smug" look on his face.

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by SKEEphistAKAte

This is different because a BLACK man is gripping a WHITE woman's butt with a "smug" look on his face.

That would offend a lot of people even if it were a white guy. The fact that its Kanye makes it worse. Not because he's black, but rather because he's a moron.

[tld221]

1. SI readers are b!tching over 2 pages of an entire issue? i mean, every faithful magazine reader has one cover they arent a fan of... if it's enough to cancel your subscription, then youre not really a faithful subscriber now are you?

2. i think the Kanye ad is just added on as more fuel to the fire. is Kanye in the ad as an endorser or is he another featured article where that is one of his spread shots? if the latter, than maybe it is a little inappropriate... but if it's an ad, well there are LOTS of ads like that.

3. its the SWIMSUIT issue, so lots of T&A will be shown, at least lots of flesh. i guess the reaction shows that its readers still operate on a "look dont touch" type of vibe?

4. if anything, i see beyonce and kanye being featured as them being currently hot in pop culture (i think Kanye is supposed to be coming out with a new album, and well, Bey is still riding her 15 minutes of fame). now for people to twist it as "OMG ONE TOO MANY BLACK FACES IN OUR BELOVED MAGAZINE" is a little ridiculous.

5.if anything, the only buzz i heard about this was the comparison of Bey vs. Tyra (something about them wearing the same bathing suit?)

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by tld221

1. SI readers are b!tching over 2 pages of an entire issue? i mean, every faithful magazine reader has one cover they arent a fan of... if it's enough to cancel your subscription, then youre not really a faithful subscriber now are you?

2. i think the Kanye ad is just added on as more fuel to the fire. is Kanye in the ad as an endorser or is he another featured article where that is one of his spread shots? if the latter, than maybe it is a little inappropriate... but if it's an ad, well there are LOTS of ads like that.

3. its the SWIMSUIT issue, so lots of T&A will be shown, at least lots of flesh. i guess the reaction shows that its readers still operate on a "look dont touch" type of vibe?

4. if anything, i see beyonce and kanye being featured as them being currently hot in pop culture (i think Kanye is supposed to be coming out with a new album, and well, Bey is still riding her 15 minutes of fame). now for people to twist it as "OMG ONE TOO MANY BLACK FACES IN OUR BELOVED MAGAZINE" is a little ridiculous.

5.if anything, the only buzz i heard about this was the comparison of Bey vs. Tyra (something about them wearing the same bathing suit?)

Ditto. I haven't seen the whole issue, but I liked Beyonce's cover shot. I can't identify with her, but that's okay, I'm not trying to! She looks great, good for her. I HATE the Kanye shot, but hers, I'm not mad at. From what I know, her bikini is from her Dereon line, so Tyra couldn't have been wearing the same one, it hadn't been designed back then. So the conflict lies.....WHERE? Just let black people be...and lessus not quarrel anymo'...

[Still BLUTANG]

i think this is an "article" from blogger sandra rose.

http://www.sandrarosenews.blogspot.com/

[MzDoctaKay]

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

i think this is an "article" from blogger sandra rose.

http://www.sandrarosenews.blogspot.com/

It is.

[jitterbug13]

Originally Posted by SKEEphistAKAte

White people are just mad that a black dude is gripping some white model's butt. If it were Nick Lachey doing the butt fondling then nobody would be offended. Why isn't it the "ghetto issue" when black athletes (many from the ghetto) are gracing the covers of the magazine monthly? Haters.

Cosign. Since it is a sports magazine, would they have felt better if D-Wade's hands was on the model's butt instead of Ye? They still would have complained. They just want to see the models. And they are mad because SI decided to do something different than the normal.

The only complaint that I have of the pic is that it is not my butt that Ye is grabbing.

[ladygreek]

A whole lot of ado about nothing. SI will get more subscriptions because of this--folx will want to see what the next controversy will be. I say ignore it and let it die. And boo to Kanye and Beyonce for posing, especially Kanye. Don't you know that "SI doesn't care about Black folx," except as a marketing tool?

[shinerbock]

I've looked around and can't find this type of story anywhere else. However, sometimes it does take this kind of stuff a couple days for Drudge to break it. Or it could be false.

[James]

I think Jon and shinerbock are right . . I couldn't really find anything on this either.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by James

I think Jon and shinerbock are right . . I couldn't really find anything on this either.

I did locate the original blog and from the way it is written, this is all a UL in the making. IMHO of course.