"Science" Cover Pic Riles Many

[Carolyn Marie]

http://www.newsweek.com/science-magazine-puts-transwomen-their-cover-without-their-heads-259455

I think I'll stay out of this one.

Carolyn Marie

[Charlize]

Wow now there is a magazine i think i'll not buy. The editor is shameful! Thankfully cis women are outraged. While it shows a fact we all know about men it is one i'd rather forget. In this case obviously exploitation.

Hugs,

Charlize

[Cyndee]

Science magazine caters to a male dominated field (science), so it's really no surprise it's about selling magazines, remember the magazine is a business.

interesting the editor Maria appologizes, I think they'll bask in the additional attention.

The Jim Austin types out there expose the depth of the problem humanity faces, what a jerk...

[VickySGV]

I don't want to touch this one with a ten foot test tube!! Some people may be brilliant in many ways, and so utterly clueless in inter human areas.

[Ravin]

I totally get the concern over possible objectification intentions, but given the topic (combating HIV), the benefit of the doubt might be given in that the decision to not show their faces in the cover photo was made out of consideration for their privacy.

[Guest Sarah Faith]

I can't say it bothers me really, lots of things going on in the world far more deserving of outrage.

[Guest Jennifer T]

While it shows a fact we all know about men it is one i'd rather forget.

Charlize, this comment is every bit as hurtful as the objectifying picture on the cover of the magazine. This comment relegates all men to something negative and ugly. And while some of us still have to live as men, I'd rather not have to deal with that mentality. And I personally know men who aren't like this. My son being one of them. And I bet the men here, Johnny, Bulldog, etc.. aren't part of that 'fact'.

No Charlize, neither this magazine cover nor it's editor reveal a fact about all men.

[Charlize]

I'm sorry i certainly did not mean to offend any particular man. There are certainly a great many people of either gender who would never want to exploit others in this fashion. Most of the men i have had as friends are much different than Jim Austin. I have also known several trans women who used to hang at a gay bar with me. The were dressed much like those pictured and they were exploited in some brutal and unpleasant ways but men like Austin who saw nothing wrong with abusing another if you payed for it.

I am perhaps too much in the feminist camp and simply wish we could approach a problem like the aides virus without denigrating and further exploiting any element of society.

[Guest Jennifer T]

And I agree with you, Charlize. We need not exploit any segment of society. But try to remember that most of us do not like to be generalized by some 'societal stereotype' concerning transgendered or transsexual people and we should probably not render the same in return. Yes, there are men who exploit others for personal gain. Yes there are men who are lecherous and self gratifying obnoxious jerks. But not all men. And there are women who fit that bill as well.

We should not do that thing we so despise when others do it to us.

This is my heart.

[Charlize]

I do hope i will take that to heart but i am a work in progress and know that past experiences do shape my feelings. Living a life of patience, kindness, tolerance and love is something i'm working on. I get frustrated with disturbing news just as i get frustrated by the slow driver ahead of me or the fast one trying to pass unsafely. I rarely see the fact that i forgot to turn my blinker on or off. Please don't take offense as i try to find more understanding of human nature. I guess i should have let this one go as Carolyn Marie stated at first. I do not mean to offend and will try to remember my blinker can annoy as well.

Hugs,

Charlize

[Guest Jennifer T]

Charlize, thank you for your graceful reply. And forgive me if I seemed direct.

No my friend, we are all works in progress. Myself probably more than most. You taught me today.

Peace.