With a single cover image, Time has successfully dashed any hopes that electing the first president who isn’t white would ease the passage for the next potential president who isn’t male. The latest cover of the magazine, illustrating a story about Hillary Clinton’s electoral chances, features the headline “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” with an illustration of teeny man hanging off the back of the heel of a giant woman in a pantsuit. The image captures the moment before the man gets violently squashed to death as the woman’s heel comes down, like he’s a victim of a misogynist B horror film about giant women getting revenge.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=211392