Yuck. Puke!

It's true; it's sexist, but I love Chromeo. Shame on me...?
The album cover is equally sexist:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/601px-Chromeo_Fancy_Footwork.jpg

It's true; it's sexist, but I love Chromeo. Shame on me...?
The album cover is equally sexist:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/601px-Chromeo_Fancy_Footwork.jpg

It's true; it is sexist, but I love Chromeo. Shame on me, I guess... :(
The album cover is equally sexist:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/601px-Chromeo_Fancy_Footwork.jpg

Damn it. Sorry for the triple post.

Dismembering = sexy? Quirky?

Assholes.

Yeah, that poster is horrible.

But why is a link to that post on Andy Samberg included here? 1) The link doesn't work, and 2) What I remember from the post is that he was photographed wearing a National Organization for Women t-shirt, and a phone call confirmed that he was genuinely supportive of the organization and feminism in general. (I don't think his comedy contradicts that.)

I don't want to be all "what about the menz?!?" here, but I also don't see any need to inaccuarately smear good allies.

I understand what makes this poster sexist, though I still really love Chromeo.

However, given that this post comes right after the Joe Sixpack post with Biden's head pasted onto a "well built" torso, http://www.feministing.com/archives/011398.html, I honestly can't quite take it seriously.

I love Chromeo, though yes I realize that the picture is sexist.

I am really getting annoyed by the hipster hate, though. Though all of the criticism brought up is very much valid, not every hipster (and there are many different varieties) is a horrible, sexist douchebag, despite what everyone seems to think. As someone who does like to dress kind of hipster, I can tell you that I get a lot of undeserved negative attention when I walk around. And I'm in Berkeley! There are genuinely nice people and douchebaggy people in every group.

I don't get it. I mean, I get the sexism; I just don't get the poster.

Would it be OK if it was ironic? like that racist Obama New Yorker cover? Or like 9 out of 10 racist and misogynistic jokes? Or like Joe Bidden's head put on another man's shirtless body to mock something Sarah Palin said?

First this site becomes virtually anti-science, then it becomes blithely hypocritical and counter-productive. anyone can post links with a sentence or two of snide commentary, it takes something special to make a worthwhile blog with intellectual integrity. I started reading feministing for the latter but am realizing I've been looking in the wrong place after months and months of looking at the former.

I love Chromeo so very much...they're totally my antifeminist guilty pleasure. But I understand why the poster (and the album cover) is sexist.

They do have an album called, "She's in control" though!

Oh shit. I'm going to get hate for this.

I know nothing about the band, but I think the poster is kind of cool in that it's very visually striking. It's memorable. I'm not quite willing to brand it as sexist.

Well, it could be visually striking and memorable and sexist all at the same time...

Intent counts. I can see someone coming up with this image and thinking it looks cool, and then deciding to use it, because face it, it's a GREAT image. I don't know enough about the process behind coming up with it to decide whether it's sexist. It's art.

I think intent matters, but only so far. What art is ultimately judged by is how it is perceived by the audience, not what the artist intended. If your intent isn't apparent from the art, or people see an intend that wasn't there, then that is your failure as an artist. What we are ultimately is visual communicators.

Oh art school...

I actually don't find this poster eye catching, striking, etc. I have see "parts" of women used in ads this way for years.

I actually don't find this poster eye catching, striking, etc. I have seen "parts" of women used in ads this way for years. To me it isn't really "art" either, but I suppose everybody has different parameters when judging what is and is not "art".