In case you can't view the image, it's a picture of a bare-footed man clad in pajamas drinking straight from the milk jug, as viewed between a woman's parted legs. The woman's body is shown only from the waist down; she is clad in a girlish, polka-dotted miniskirt and silver stilettos, and she is holding either a toilet or bottle brush at her side.
Next to the image is the giant headline: "You're Driving Me Crazy!" And the subtitle: "10* Relationship Headaches—And How to Fix Them." The asterisk is also between the woman's legs, and reads: "*Maybe You're the Problem…"
There's so much wrong with this, I hardly know where to begin. I mean, really? The editors of Psychology Today don't find anything objectionable about sexualizing a woman's disembodied parts on their cover? Nothing wrong with implying wives are supposed to wear sexy (even if ludicrously impractical) clothes and heels even while cleaning the toilet or doing the dishes? All of which is to say nothing about the fact that the image normalizes white heterosexual coupledom—an easily-avoided reinforcement of privilege if multiple couples, including same-sex and mixed-race couples, had been pictured instead of this softcore horseshit.
2. Shaker and Hoyden Lauredhel also dropped in comments a link to this mess:
If you can't see view the image, it's a picture of one of those vending machines with the grabby crane-arm, except instead of stuffed toys or DVDs or wev, it's full of boobs.
I give up.
[Disembodied Things: Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-One, Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three, Twenty-Four, Twenty-Five.]
