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Detail of the cover of “Man’s Best Friend”, by Sabrina Carpenter
Superrestrela Pop received huge criticism after sharing on Instagram the image of the cover of her last album, ‘Man’s Best Friend’, which some fans consider “disturbing”.
A princesa do pop Sabrina Carpenter He shared the fans and caused a wave of moral indignation after revealing on his Instagram profile the cover of his next album, ‘Man’s Best Friend’.
The cover portrays the 26-year-old American singer of cats, with short black dresswhile a faceless figure and in fact grabs your hair.
Unsurprisingly, the internet did not react well. Fans argue that the image perpetuates patriarchal values and degraded women when comparing them to pets.
“All this is so disturbing. Why are we proudly comparing us to dogs, ”wrote one of Carpenter on Instagram.
“I love Sabrina, but this image… Why is man there that way? It’s not a very empowering image for women. Most of your fans are women And as a survivor of domestic violence, I consider her uncomfortable and would rather see her from another, ”read another comment.
Glasgow Women’s Aid, a Scottish organization that fights domestic violence, on Facebook the cover of the album as “regressive”.
“Portatar-se of cats, with a man pulling his hair And call you ‘the best friend of man’ It is not subversion. It’s a backwardness The beaten clichés that reduce women to pets, props and possessions, and promote an element of violence and control, ”writes Gwa.
Heated responses also reflect anger and exacerbated sensitivity at a time when women’s rights are being corroded by governments – and threatened by toxic cultural influence of the “Manosphere”the set of online spaces that promote misogyny, says to.
“This shouts’traditional wife‘At a time when many of us are fighting for the autonomy of our body. Is so badly aligned with this political moment that it is or is a intentional provocation or simply a lack of notion blatant. None of the options are acceptable right now, ”said one fan.
There are those who however contradict this speech, remembering that Sabrina Carpenter always assumed his sexuality to play with male fantasies – And that, outside the broader context of the album, we do not know its true meaning.
“I am seeing a lot of discussion about Carpenter’s album cover… for those who can lack critical thinking, The cover is clearly satiricalcommon deepest meaningO, portraying how the audience sees it, believing that it exists only for the male look, ”reads in X.
“The cover of Sabrina Carpenter’s album Is it so offensive?“, Asks the chronicler Adrian Horton no.“ The internet has been divided, but it is possible that Some are not realizing the point“.
“The discomfort is palpable, although predictable. Although female sexuality is a data acquired in pop music, we are not yet used to seeing pop stars controlling your own sexualitylet alone fit as submissives, ”writes the American chronicler.
“Carpenter de Cats against dominant rhetoric of female sexual empowerment – ‘Be on top‘, ‘have sex like a man‘, ‘give the orders‘. What seems to be Lost in all these comments is the sense of funwhich Carpenter seems to have abundant, ”concludes Horton.
Disturbing or satirical, the cover launched the debate on the internet and left a few more people angry with the world. There was no need, the deacon would say medicines.
