There's a good
post up a Jezebel about the controversy over the Lebron James
Vogue cover and its apparent similarities to the poster for the 1933
King Kong. In the former, an African-American male is posed to look rather beastly and is standing next to a pretty blonde lady. In the latter, a dark, male beast manhandling a blonde lady. The side-by-side should be enough to make everybody uncomfortable.
The Vogue:
The Konginator:
Some oddly similar political propaganda, unless I'm mistaken:
And also this old standard:
Considering
the King of Kong review and the
single best piece of video game-derived art I've ever seen, Pauline has gotten more play on this blog than I would have expected.
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