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Topless Magazine Cover Of Michelle Obama Totally Inappropriate And Disrespectful


I thought things were going well for first lady Michelle Obama, who has done a fine job guest editing iVillage this week, until I stumbled upon a Spanish magazine cover of her topless. The image in which she’s photoshopped is also of a former French slave.

But Feura de Serie seems to be under the impression that this is artistic and forward-moving, according to BuzzFeed. I don’t know about you, but that’s not the impression I get:

The FLOTUS’s face is inserted into the “Portrait d’une négresse” painting, which Marie-Guillemine Benoist created in 1800 and is currently housed in Paris’s famous Louvre. Benoist, who reportedly “fit the middle and upper class ideal of ‘womanhood,’” was trying to promote feminism and slave freedom with her work, according to some historians:

“Although we do not know whether or to what extent Benoist partook in the volatile debates on slavery and gender current during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in France, her painting may be seen as a voice of protest, however small, in the discourse over human bondage. With the portrait, the artist responded to early nineteenth-century French racialism and the less-than-desirable treatment of women by playing upon the popular analogy of women and slaves.”

Regardless of the painter’s intention or publication’s statement, our first lady does not need to be shown shirtless on the front of a magazine, and it demonstrates a great lack of respect for her as a political figure and woman to depict her in such a manner.

[BuzzFeed, The Frisky]

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  • Anonymous

    I wonder if Laura Donavon is just as outraged about all the Photoshopped nudes of Sarah Palin and other conservative women that are much more degrading than this one? For some reason I don’t think so!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EKILQPK6DSXQYHW5ANWR4FV2FU HopeyChangey

    Bill Maher, an American and not a Spaniard, called Laura Bush Hitler’s Dog. Any comment?

  • Laura Donovan

    i actually i was…laura donOVAN

  • http://twitter.com/thetimmalone Tim Malone

    They couldn’t put a pic of her bottomless because her hips wouldn’t fit.

  • Anonymous

    Put a sock in in it. The FLOTUS is all class, unlike the person you mention, and does not need or want such crap put on her image.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JKFTM74TKIZH5LKGBGCQ6B4XY K

    So your comment can be construed as a War on Women from the Democrats eh, LOL. After all you are saying it is ok to put a Republican woman in such a derogatory way, but not a Democratic woman. Interesting.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you need reading lessons, I never said it’s OK for any women to be made into objects of ridicule, except the CLASSLESS women.

  • Anonymous

    Is there a book about comedy that maybe you and Romney read? Because this reminds me a good deal of Mitt’s “no one’s asked me about our birth certificate” zinger. First of all, it’s not clever or witty. At all. Her hips wouldn’t fit? Is that supposed to be a suggestion that she’s fat? Or just that she’s big-hipped?

  • Anonymous

    and just who are the “CLASSLESS” ones? and who gets to determine that? you?

  • Anonymous

    How about Obama’s own quips about his birth certificate, were any of them “clever or witty”? is Obama the only one who can make jokes about the “birthers”?

  • Anonymous

    Where are “all the Photoshopped nudes of Sarah Palin and other conservative women”? I’m not asking because I’m interested in seeing them; I’m just curious as to the types of publications you’re referring to here. Hustler did that disgusting layout with pictures of S.E. Cupp, and that did cause outrage. And that was Hustler, a publication whose bread and butter is shocking and degrading. Since you suggested that there’s a double standard, I’d just be interested in knowing the names of the publications that you say have done the same thing. If you can produce any, I will sincerely apologize.

  • Anonymous

    Not me, the classless ones do.

  • Anonymous

    It’s about time these liberal hypocrites got a little taste of their disgusting attacks on CONSERVATIVE women THATS THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN FROM DISGUSTING LIBERALS!

  • Linda Perry

    Would Mediaite have posted this here had this been a White FLOTUS?

    But it Never about Race and Humiliation? This was a magazine in a foreign nation. Why import the sickness to America?

    Stop the blatant racial baiting. It is really sickening.

  • Anonymous

    First of all, yes, they were funny. That Lion King bit was really clever.

    More importantly Obama was mocking the whole birther b.s. You can argue that Romney’s joke shouldn’t be taken seriously. That it was a moment of levity. But I don’t think anyone could argue that Romney was taking a potshot at birthers. He was pandering to them.

    But if Romney wants to make jokes that make fun of the birther movement I think that’d be great.

  • Anonymous

    In your humble opinion, no doubt.

  • Anonymous

    I could produce probably a hundred of them for you but they are so disgusting I will not send you a link…do yourself a favor and google “fake nude photos of Sarah Palin”…then you can go down the list of other conservative women.
    I am very surprise you are not smart enough to have done that in the first place before embarrassing yourself.

    After that you can sincerely apologize to me, I will be anxiously waiting for it!!

  • Anonymous

    Do you ever engage in a back and forth dialogue or are you just not smart enough so you have to resort to immature name calling? I think we all know the answer to that!!

  • Derek Treggalles

    how can you compare the first lady to a half term tiny state governor who has the mental capacity of a bowl of grapes?

  • Anonymous

    of course there are disgusting images simply out there on the internet. I’m asking whether any appeared in the mainstream press. I searched “Palin” “photoshopped” and found one reference to something Dylan Ratigan did that were not in good taste– Palin in a mini, Palin in a bikini holding a rifle. They weren’t “much more degrading” than this one of Obama. And it wasn’t the case that they were ignored by the press, because Ratigan did apologize for them.

  • Anonymous

    What accomplishments does Michelle have? Can you name ONE? I can’t! Affirmative action doesn’t count!

  • Anonymous

    Are you saying that nude fake photos of Michelle have appeared in the mainstream press? I’m confused. I guess it depends on what your definition is of “mainstream press” is…..I do not consider a french tabloid mainstream press.

  • Derek Treggalles

    Why should she need to have ANY accomplishments? She ran for no office. She is leading an effort to have your children eat healthier and she is a very well educated woman, she also is a very accomplished mother (I thought that was your holy grail).Can you not respect the position if not the lady.

  • Anonymous

    Translation: Ooohhhh King Obama.. how I love y… Sssssssslllllurrrrrpppp

  • Anonymous

    You are the one who wanted to compare Einstein……not me….Someday before I die it would be nice to have an intelligent conversation with a liberal but I don’t think it will happen!

  • Anonymous

    youre an asshole

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marc-Wilks/745501965 Marc Wilks

    I wonder if there would be such outrage if Laura Bush had been shown in such a manner. I doubt it

  • ARMinARMSwithARMS

    a warm & toasty place awaits all of you. this is nothing short of immature. grown so-called adults but you act worst than children but its no surprise nor do i expect change. what’s worse, this is what you teach each generation of children. another reason the issues in this country will never go away. you want people to believe america is one of the best places on earth but that lie is only in your feeble minds. america is brought down by the mentally sick like repubs & all like them, God-less people, racism, evil, corruption, gun violence, & all of you spoon feed it everyday. how many of you claim to be religous or God-fearing? its only a front. this country was founded & built on racism, evil & violence & surely that’s how it will pass. “live by the sword, die by the sword.” all are familiar with that phrase. what makes you think you are exempt.

  • http://twitter.com/TheDarklady TheDarklady

    I can see where the magazine is coming from, actually… but I think the time to push this particular artistic/symbolic edge/message is not during her husband’s first term in office or during this election. Waiting until after a second term, if such occurs, seems most appropriate if it has a large distribution.

  • ARMinARMSwithARMS

    ~Mike O’Neal said Mrs O “Mrs yomama”in email w/photo comparing her to the grinch. referred to Mr O in bible verse (Psalm 109:8):… “Let his days be few; & let another take his office… May his kids be fatherless &his wife a widow. … May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes…. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.”… he forwarded this prayer w/his own message: “at last I can honestly voice biblical prayer for our pres! Look it up. its word for word! Lets all bow our heads & pray. brothers & sisters can I get an amen”

    ~Salvatore Ballarino forwarded numerous, supposedly funny photos comparing blacks to monkeys or excrement.

    ~Mike Parry scrubbed several tweets including one describes Mr O as “power hungry arrogant black man.” “My opinion is that our pres is arrogant & angry. The fact is that he’s a black man.”

    ~Gary Frago The Merced Sun-Star newspaper revealed Frago sent several racist e-mails, including a comparison between Mr O & OJ & a crack about Mrs O posing in nat geo

    ~Chip Saltsman sent out a CD of “Barack the Magic N#@!%” as a Christmas present, and refused to apologize

    ~Marilyn Davenport forwarded an email in which Pres. Obama’s face is superimposed on a chimpanzee’s

    ~Harry Reid Mr O “light-skinned,” “w/non$%#@ dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

    ~Audra Shay friend said “obama bin lauden is new terrorist. muslim is on there side. need to take US back from all of these mad co ons & illegals” she responded “you tell em Eric! lol”

    ~Rusty DePass response to facebook post about an escaped gorilla at the riverbanks zoo: “I’m sure it’s just one of Mrs O’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

    ~Jim Sensenbrenner told church members at a x-mas bazaar that our first lady has a “big butt.”

    ~bill clinton told Ted Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been getting us coffee.”

    ~Rush Limbaugh said Mr O was “behaving like an african colonial despot” & called Mr O an “angry black guy” a month later. played “barack, the magic n#$@!” on his show.

  • ARMinARMSwithARMS

    ~Mike O’Neal said Mrs O “Mrs yomama”in email w/photo comparing her to the grinch. referred to Mr O in bible verse (Psalm 109:8):… “Let his days be few; & let another take his office… May his kids be fatherless &his wife a widow. … May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes…. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.”… he forwarded this prayer w/his own message: “at last I can honestly voice biblical prayer for our pres! Look it up. its word for word! Lets all bow our heads & pray. brothers & sisters can I get an amen”

    ~Salvatore Ballarino forwarded numerous, supposedly funny photos comparing blacks to monkeys or excrement.

    ~Mike Parry scrubbed several tweets including one describes Mr O as “power hungry arrogant black man.” “My opinion is that our pres is arrogant & angry. The fact is that he’s a black man.”

    ~Gary Frago The Merced Sun-Star newspaper revealed Frago sent several racist e-mails, including a comparison between Mr O & OJ & a crack about Mrs O posing in nat geo

    ~Chip Saltsman sent out a CD of “Barack the Magic N#@!%” as a Christmas present, and refused to apologize

    ~Marilyn Davenport forwarded an email in which Pres. Obama’s face is superimposed on a chimpanzee’s

    ~Harry Reid Mr O “light-skinned,” “w/non$%#@ dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

    ~Audra Shay friend said “obama bin lauden is new terrorist. muslim is on there side. need to take US back from all of these mad co ons & illegals” she responded “you tell em Eric! lol”

    ~Rusty DePass response to facebook post about an escaped gorilla at the riverbanks zoo: “I’m sure it’s just one of Mrs O’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

    ~Jim Sensenbrenner told church members at a x-mas bazaar that our first lady has a “big butt.”

    ~bill clinton told Ted Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been getting us coffee.”

    ~Rush Limbaugh said Mr O was “behaving like an african colonial despot” & called Mr O an “angry black guy” a month later. played “barack, the magic n#$@!” on his show.

  • http://twitter.com/lekass Lauren

    I wish people would stop saying that no one would be outraged if this was a republican woman or a white woman or any other person. It simply isn’t true. The fact is that no woman should be portrayed like this without her permission, and that goes especially for a woman who is the FLOTUS. Michelle Obama has been a wonderful, dignified and inspiring leader and, like Laura said, she doesn’t deserve this.

    I’d say the same thing if this was a picture with Sarah Palin’s face. Well, minus the “wonderful, dignified and inspiring leader” part but I would still say she didn’t deserve it.

  • ARMinARMSwithARMS

    Abraham Lincoln gave a speech where he says “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me & causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.” its uncanny that all he described that “causes him to tremble for the safety of the country” is every thing the republicans have done & are doing.

    only republicans can distort anything in such a way. I got none of what you said from the above comment. what I did get out of it is regardless of your ignorant opinions, First Lady Michelle Obama is above palin in class & everything else.

    republicans, men & woman place themselves where they can be seen in a derogatory way.
    ~they fired two democratic members of the Montgomery County Board of Elections because they refused to cut back voting hours. republicans want extended hours in red states & hours cut back in blue state.
    ~A panel of federal judges threw out Texas redistricting plans saying the state failed to show the new political lines would not discriminate against minorities under the Voting Rights Act.

    republicans dont care anymore. they are practically screaming “we are a bunch of racist. we are what we are & that’s all that we are.”

    thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/13/424239/fox-women-miliary-expect-raped/

  • Anonymous

    The GOP has to play the race card because that’s all they have.

  • Anonymous

    I’m no MO fan, but this is just tasteless. I think THEY think it’s a compliment, though….

  • ARMinARMSwithARMS

    your turn after you read. What accomplishments does ann romney have? Can you name ONE? I can’t! teaching her horse rafeces how to dance doesn’t count

    Michelle grew up in a two-story house in Chicago. Her parents rented a small apartment. They attended services at a Methodist Church. The Robinsons used to vacation in a rustic cabin in White Cloud, Michigan. She and her brother skipped the second grade. By sixth grade, Michelle joined a gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School.
    She attended Whitney Young High School, Chicago’s first magnet high school. The round trip commute from home to the west side, where the school was located, took 3hours. She was on the honor roll for 4years, took advanced placement classes, a member of the National Honor Society and served as student council treasurer, graduated as the salutatorian of her class.
    Michelle was inspired to follow her brother to Princeton University. At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community. “I remember being shocked,” she says, “by college students who drove BMWs. I didn’t even know parents who drove BMWs.” While at Princeton, she got involved with the Third World Center, an academic and cultural group that supported minority students, running their day care center which also included after school tutoring. majored in sociology and minored in African American studies and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts. She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School. At Harvard she participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who were members of minorities and worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, assisting low-income tenants with housing cases. She is the 3rd First Lady with a postgraduate degree. 2008 she accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of the 100-year-old black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, which had no active undergraduate chapter at Princeton when she attended.
    She met Barack Obama when they were among the few African Americans at their law firm, Sidley Austin. she was assigned to mentor him as a summer associate. Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. She is the first cousin once removed of Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr., one of the country’s most prominent black rabbis.
    The Obamas’ daughters attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a private school. As a member of the school’s board, Michelle fought to maintain diversity in the school when other board members connected with the University of Chicago tried to reserve more slots for children of the university faculty. This resulted in a plan to expand the school.
    Following law school, she was an associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin, where she first met her future husband. At the firm, she worked on marketing and intellectual property. She continues to hold her law license, but as she no longer needs it for her work, it has been on a voluntary inactive status.
    In 1991, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor, and as Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies. she worked there nearly four years and set fundraising records for the organization that still stood 12 years after she left.
    In 1996, she served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed the University’s Community Service Center. In 2002, she began working for the University of Chicago Hospitals, first as executive director for community affairs and, beginning May 2005, as Vice President for Community and External Affairs. She continued to hold the University of Chicago Hospitals position during the primary campaign, but cut back to part time in order to spend time with her daughters as well as work for her husband’s election; she subsequently took a leave of absence from her job. According to the couple’s 2006 income tax return, her salary was $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals, while her husband had a salary of $157,082 from the United States Senate. The Obamas’ total income, however, was $991,296, which included $51,200 she earned as a member of the board of directors of TreeHouse Foods, and investments and royalties from his books.
    She served as a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods, Inc., She serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

  • ARMinARMSwithARMS

    they wont unless she’s white or an air head like palin.

  • Anonymous

    The Liberal Loons have no problem attacking Conservative women, but heaven forbid someone gives them a taste of their own medicine and they whine and cry like the babies they are. Liberals are all hypocrites.

  • Anonymous

    You struck the tone with your stupid name… No you struck the tone with your god and effing guns… Screw both of them

  • Anonymous

    A historical claim that the original painting by Madame Benoist “image became a symbol for women’s emancipation and black people’s rights” should not cause alarm in people unless you are inherently against it and/or repressed as so many in this country are or have become.

  • LizardLips

    I think I saw here in a NatGeo mag somewhere.

  • http://www.e-bcr.com/ Michael Kassotakis MCIM

    The Honorable Lady Obama is The Black Goddess and a Black Magic Woman.We are in the New Millennium and People with Humble Ancestors have gained significant education and significant positions. Meritocracy is more applicable in USA and that’s why this country is blessed. As far the reveal of the black velvet body parts of this Magnificent Woman is concerned, men will go crazy. Black Goddess I adore you. E-BCR, http://www.e-bcr.com

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