Newsweek on Wednesday previewed its next cover for a story on “What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women.”
The cover image depicts a mouse cursor lifting up the dress of a woman holding a laptop.
This week’s cover: “What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women” http://t.co/1qXvXer9cs pic.twitter.com/Mxmqv6wJHR
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 28, 2015
The imagery on the cover quickly sparked controversy on Twitter.
Nevermind what Silicon Valley thinks of women, what the hell is @Newsweek thinking? http://t.co/8TRfPXB2vx pic.twitter.com/6ksebZZzWS
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) January 28, 2015
What Newsweek Thinks of Women. pic.twitter.com/HQ4k0SmMpz
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) January 28, 2015
We are a little surprised about @Newsweek‘s new cover about uncovering systematic sexism in Silicon valley. pic.twitter.com/W9MG0KiMg2 #forwomen
— Ms.FoundationWomen (@msfoundation) January 28, 2015
Um, yeah, this is pretty bad @Newsweek pic.twitter.com/Ucq54MhcJi
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) January 28, 2015
Unfortunately, your tasteless cover won’t allow most to get to the story. Which is the point of a cover, right? @KiraBind @sarahkendzior
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) January 28, 2015
This @Newsweek cover doesn’t seem like something to freak out over. But hey, that’s just me!
*floats away*
pic.twitter.com/bPJ6krhg5l— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 28, 2015
I’m getting 50/50 people saying the Newsweek cover is amazing/awful
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) January 28, 2015
Well you can’t judge a book by looking at its cover, so we shall wait and see what the story is.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Um…I’m gonna go out on a limb here…I’m with Goldie. Now with that said…
Well, you know, if they’d started with a figure of a woman who was actually dressed like a woman in business these days, and THEN implied that “Silicon Valley” liked to look up their skirts, maybe it wouldn’t be so whacked…
It’d still be whacked. But maybe not so whacked.
Can’t wait for the Newsweak story about what Silicon Valley thinks of African Americans. I hear they have a picture of an African American being lynched in a data center.
Going after the racism and sexism in Silicon Valley is long past overdue but this sensationalist bs is making me think Newsweak isn’t going to be up to the task.