NEWSWEEK TUMBLR Changes Cursor to COAT HANGER to MOCK Women

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Proving that they have no shame (as if this were in doubt after they published Niall Ferguson’s Obama article chock full of factual inaccuracies), today Newsweek changed the mouse/cursor on their Tumblr account to a coat hanger in order to mock Huffington Post’s use of a coat hanger in discussing the GOP’s party platform. Huff Po’s headline reads: “GOP PLATFORM: ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT, NO RAPE EXEMPTION”.

Hard to understand how Newsweek doesn’t get that the coat hanger image is not hyperbole. No exemption for rape, capiche? So under this Republican scenario, HOW DOES NEWSWEEK THINK WOMEN/YOUNG GIRLS WILL BE DEALING WITH BEING IMPREGNATED BY A RAPIST OR RELATIVE?


Newsweek wrote, “We’re retiring the mustache cursor for the day. Here’s our new one: a coat hanger.” (Warning, the coat hanger is still the cursor and it made me literally gag with pain just trying to navigate the page long enough to get a screengrab.)


Ha ha, right? Right? Do you get it? DEATH OF WOMEN IS FUNNY! Perhaps the old men at Newsweek will pardon us if our concern for our lives gets in the way of our appreciation of their startlingly archaic and misguided, misogynistic humor.




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http://www.politicususa.com/newsweek-tumbler-cursor-coat-hanger-mock-huffpp.html

[Lindsay]

1. Just when you think

you can't GET more appalled....

[lonestarnot]

2. Should we contact Loraina Bobbit?

[still_one]

3. haven't read newsweek since 2000, and giving ferguson legitimacy only re-enforces that my first

impressions about them were correct in 2000.

I am not sure about the "coat" hanger thing. They may be saying that women will die if they follow the republican platform, however, the coat hanger cursor does make the subject seem "cutsie", which doesn't surprise me coming from newsweek

[Enrique]

4. they are mocking Huffington Post

and since Huffington Post is pretty much the definition of exploitation, their use of the coat hanger cannot be considered sacred, it should be considered just one more exercise in exploitation.

[lame54]

5. it's not even the right type of coat hanger

[myrna minx]

6. What an awful week, but at least we know where everyone stands.