[Vwoolf] staging female author suicides

[Jean Mallinson]

I'm glad it was taken down but the apology  shows a failure to grasp jut 
how deeply offensive the whole scheme was. It is a kind of suicide porn 
and suggests a very depraved taste. It made me feel sad and angry.
Jean
On 6/18/2013 1:24 PM, Melanie White wrote:
>
> Apart from VW, the characters in The Hours were fictional, and VW's 
> death was decades ago, whereas Iris Chang's family and loved ones 
> probably are still very much processing their grief over her suicide. 
> The image of her was breathtakingly insensitive and offensive to me 
> for that reason.
>
> *From:*vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
> [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] *On Behalf Of 
> *Kimberly Coates
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:27 PM
> *To:* Gregory Jordan Dekter; Anne Margaret Daniel
> *Cc:* vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides
>
> Greg:
>
> There is no comparison. The VICE spread is using suicide to sell 
> fashion and in doing so it glamorizes and aestheticizes female bodies 
> in pain. It also takes our attention far away from the amazing work 
> all of these women accomplished. You would think that in an issue 
> announcing itself as covering Women's Fiction that the work would be 
> their concern. Whatever you want to say about Michael Cunningham 
> and/or the film version of his novel The Hours, he isn't guilty of 
> promoting suicide to sell shoes and vintage attire!
>
> Kim
>
> Kimberly Coates, Ph.D.
>
> Associate Professor of English
>
> Affiliate Faculty Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/American 
> Culture Studies
>
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>
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> *From: *Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jdekter at gmail.com>>
> *Date: *Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:08 PM
> *To: *Anne Margaret Daniel <daniela at newschool.edu 
> <mailto:daniela at newschool.edu>>
> *Cc: *"vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
> <mailto:vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>" 
> <vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
> <mailto:vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>>
> *Subject: *Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides
>
> I'm just wondering of those who oppose this, are you equally offended 
> by the portrayal of the same event in "The Hours"?
>
> On 18 June 2013 15:03, Anne Margaret Daniel <daniela at newschool.edu 
> <mailto:daniela at newschool.edu>> wrote:
>
> VICE has removed the online photos, not apologizing very much ("to 
> anyone who was hurt or offended") and stating, defensively, that their 
> "main goal is to create artful images, with the fashion message 
> following, rather than leading."  Taken down online, but still in print.
>
> Here is the Vice statement: 
> http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6
>
> And here, still online at Inquisitr, is the photo of the model 
> portraying Woolf, standing in water and holding a large stone.  No 
> words for it, really.
>
> http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White 
> <melanie.white at comcast.net <mailto:melanie.white at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617
>
> Someone said this has been taken down now.
>
>
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