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Sabrina Carpenter Album Controversy: Women’s Organization Slams ‘Regressive’ Cover As Fans Defend It As Satire (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Glasgow Women’s Aid, a Scotland-based advocacy organization for women experiencing domestic abuse, slammed Carpenter in a post on Instagram on Thursday calling the album cover “regressive,” and stating it evokes “tired tropes that reduce women to pets, props, and possessions and promote an element of violence and control.” A column in The Telegraph Thursday complained in a headline that Carpenter’s “over-sexed, degrading new album cover has gone too far,” and the writer Poppie Platt noted Carpenter has many young fans and said her marketing is “troubling,” comparing it to TikTok trends like the “trad-wife” aesthetic that promote subservience to men. Some of the most-liked comments on Carpenter’s Instagram post of the album cover were critical. “Is this a humiliation ritual? WTH is this cover,” one comment, which garnered 8,000 likes says, while another commenter stated: “Explain to me again how this isn’t centering men? How this isn’t catering to the male gaze?”

I know next to nothing about Sabrina Carpenter, but why can't the artist express whatever she wants? It would be cool if she did champion a cause and fight the good fight, but if she's a slop merchant then why stop her from making slop?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (5 children)

but why can't the artist express whatever she wants?

Ugh this may ignite a struggle session, but, I feel like this is a weird sentiment to expression on an ML dominated site? We reject the liberal notion of "freedom of expression" and believe all actions done in the public sphere have an effect on broader society and are worthy of scrutiny. Also we regularly sing the praises of socialist state that have pretty strict regulations on public media, often specifically in regards to sexualized presentations of women.

Now I don't personally have a problem with Sabrina (actually I kinda dig her music), but I think it's Lib to just hand wave this discourse with what basically amounts to freeze-peach

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Record label: has their employee do something misogynistic

Leftists: "why are you policing a woman's sexuality?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I would point out, we don't really know how much agency Sabrina has here. She may be a record company slave, she may have a lot of creative control and is actually designing a lot of this stuff herself cuz she likes it.

I've seen interviews with her where she comes off as someone who does just enjoy being over the top and exhibitionist, but that could be acting, I can't prove anything either way.

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