Has got a bit silly, I can see how they would construe this but cant see why they would bother, it was a crap caption and one I would have shied away from using just to avoid rattling the cage of the perpetually offended.

Black people have darker skin than us white folk, there is a contrast in skin tone and they have used it for the aesthetics, wouldn't be a problem the other way round, I wouldn't be offended in the slightest, the real racism is people being beaten for skin colour, people being overlooked for a job, racist comments, racist language used to hurt or offend, not this and the objections just dilute and confuse the issue, people who are not racist get tied up trying to appear so, and those that have the hatred carry on as normal and I still think we should be able to discuss certain groups, like for example the London riots and why it happened just easily as we should be able to discuss positive stuff regarding a group.

 

I think you mean MOWO

 

All I can see in the shadows are eyeballs.

 

The more the merrier.

 

all the holes are pink so whats the problem?

 

All those in the photograph surely had a choice of being in it?

 

Rather clever how the shoulder of the women on the left and the breast of the women on the right accentuates Bela's curves. I like it; good shot, challenging norms.

P.S. And if I'm allowed to be really speculative, the straps joining the bikini top and bottom are almost square and compasses Masonic with the belly button acting as a kind of circumpunct or a 'G'. That is all.

 

well thats cliff richard ****ed then

 

A cracker surrounded by a bunch of darkies...whatever next!?

 

No idea who she is so I guess "stepping out of the shadows" is simply as she's unknown? To think it racist says more about the reader than the mag imho.

TX.

 

Yeah. I didn't think about that.

Yeah, again.

Brain is selective. It only registers what it wants to register. Mind is a different matter.

Yeah, again.

I agree that the picture isn’t enigmatic enough to be artistic. But in the magazine’s defence, some imagination might have been applied by a feeble chance. If that wasn’t the case, all the hot tottys could have been grinning brainlessly at you boys, head on; with their bosoms hanging out, instead of looking somewhat shifty-eyed profile angles.



Its possible that your Subconscious (well above the multiple layers over the deep resting Unconscious) has retained every-day residues, images seen and bygone and yet still stored in your subliminal mind, and therefore, you saw what you saw, in your dream? But if you are talking of Jungian perspective, I wonder if it still leaves you feeling that our minds are unconsciously racist? It was only the once, you said. Don’t you think that it could have been an epiphany when you saw your Anima, your Soul-image; the very part of your unconscious side of Persona in your dream, and you still wonder what you wonder? I wonder.

 

Yeah I didn't consciously see the caption.


Well if you believe dreams are significant then my unconscious must be racist to some degree unless it conducted race-blind interview for the role of personifying my anima.

 

Nothing wrong with a bit of coffee `n cream

 

The pinko PC Plonkers who are trying to overturn the World order as we have always known it will seize on any opportunity however ridiculous, in fact the more that way the better, to make a fuss and to get their own way in order to show their power!

Les

 

They look like they are real lesbian!

 

If you look hard enough you'll find racism everywhere - intended or not.

A feminist would say that cover was sexist stereotyping of women. Yet I see no bra-burning (pity )

 

A feminist would attack the objectification and the patriarchal imposed standards of female beauty. All that stacks up to exploitation etc blah blah.

Still I think FHM is pretty harmless compared to the ubiquitous US **** industry outputs which is definitely a blight on aesthetics.

 

Eh??? I'm just trying to work out if she's shaved or not...

 

if you think the two black birds at the bottom of that cover were hard to spot, try this one

 

You do look at another possibility that your Unconscious might have conducted race-blind interview for the role of personifying my anima, so we can rule that in. Other than that, Ego has to be shelved to check out your Unconscious; to find out if you are unconsciously racist or not. Otherwise, your "may be racist" can simply be your Conscious Ego's interpretation, and your femme fetale may really be your femme inspiritrice ; for what your Ego knows. That's my view. Jung imagined dark Anima to be a baddy and darkness to negativity for his reasons. In all honesty, I too have reasons to freak out in darkness. Electricity went off twice before, and I was terrified!

 

Fail.

That was easy peasy, Sinky.

I didn't mean that the two at the bottom of the cover were hard to spot. I just pointed out that I discovered them hiding under all that printing milarkey. I think they shouldn't have been hired, as the lettering all over them doesn't justify their pay cheque.

 

can't get one by you, can i swati?

 

I didn't see the dark girls until after I had finished perving at the obvious one ;-)

 

Don't get it personally.

 

Nobody would listen to it because it would be rubbish


They do exist though, don't suppose there is much 'black music' on country and western or classical music channels...

 

Five Black women ganging up on one white woman.Bloody racist that is.

 

Just showed my old man that, after about 10mins he just burst out laughing!!!

 

Is this racist

 

I tell you what did annoy me last night was an advert for an ITV for a show following a young lad wanting to be a pro race driver. Out of all the hopefuls they chose him.

Guess why.