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(69,059 posts)Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women
Proving that they have no shame (as if this were in doubt after they published Niall Fergusons 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 Posts use of a coat hanger in discussing the GOPs party platform. Huff Pos headline reads: GOP PLATFORM: ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT, NO RAPE EXEMPTION.
Hard to understand how Newsweek doesnt 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, Were retiring the mustache cursor for the day. Heres 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.
More:
http://www.politicususa.com/newsweek-tumbler-cursor-coat-hanger-mock-huffpp.html