The image of a bare-chested Putin on horseback that’s in many of the Trump-Putin images originated with the Russian strongman’s official macho persona.
But it’s partly the editorial folks, the people in charge who say, ‘This is not funny enough’ or ‘This is not punchy enough’ or ‘This isn’t going to make it in…What’s going to make this go viral?'” “I think that’s partly on the cartoonists themselves. “We rely on these old tropes, these old stereotypes, and say, ‘That’s going to have the biggest bang for our buck,'” she says. Cartoonists and the editors who publish them want to be provocative.
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Since the Times tweeted its Trump-Putin romance video on July 16, it has garnered nearly 1.5 million views, plus thousands of favorites, retweets, and replies-and that, says Hancock Alfaro, is part of the point. #TrumpPutin #Trump #Russia #Collusion #Putin #PutinOwnsTrump #PutinOwnsGOP /NkilhrK7bD Thinking about who has greater power and who has lesser power, we think about dominance and submissiveness.” “It becomes our default way of thinking about the world. “We live in a culture where there is this casual homophobia that still persists,” she says. As they’ve become increasingly visible, some LGBTQ advocates and journalists have asked what message they really send.Īnge-Marie Hancock Alfaro, chair of gender studies at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College, says it all comes down to old-school gender dynamics. Although intended to mock Trump’s strange-and noteworthy-political attraction to authoritarian leaders, these illustrations invoke old sexist and homophobic tropes. It’s not just the New York Times. Since 2016, a flood of editorial cartoons, magazine covers, late-night skits, and memes have depicted Trump as being romantically involved or sexually attracted to strongmen and right-wing political leaders. It implies that calling them gay together would anger them and incite reaction. It implies that being gay would emasculate them. It is implying that being gay is an insult for both of these men.
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Just a reminder that the NYT published an animated cartoon using a series of flamboyant homophobic stereotypes to mock Trump & Putin on the ground that they're gay lovers – because that's an insult – and Dems are fine with it because the targets are right /oJA6m200Uv The animation was met with backlash. Phillip Picardi of them and Teen Vogue said the cartoon was homophobic and “beneath us.” The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald tweeted, “Homophobia for progressive messaging is still bigotry.” Others pointed out that it was just another variation of the tired joke that “Trump is gay for Putin,” repackaged for the newspaper of record. Putin leads them through the clouds on unicornback. Russian President Vladimir Putin is a strong, masculine man with a cool car President Donald Trump is his doting loverboy.
In June, the New York Times’ op-ed page published a video titled “Trump and Putin: A Love Story.” The brightly colored hand-drawn cartoon depicts a romance between the two leaders.
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