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Barnes & Noble censors androgynous model on Dossier magazine cover

Because gender is soooo scary!

Towleroad reports on how androgynous model Andrej Pejic’s picture on the cover of Dossier magazine was apparently too gender-bending for Barnes & Noble’s sensitive megastore eyes  — so much, in fact, that they contacted Dossier telling them they were afraid customers would mistake the model for a topless woman. How to remedy that? They said it required them to put the magazine in opaque poly bags.

Lisa at Sociological Images has a good analysis of how this stems from a history of fearing and censoring female bodies (in this case, Pejic’s potentially-perceived-as-breasts chest) but more importantly notes that, “if a man looks feminine enough, he becomes, by default, obscene.”

And if ...

Because gender is soooo scary!

Towleroad reports on how androgynous model Andrej Pejic’s picture on the cover of Dossier magazine was apparently too gender-bending for Barnes & Noble’s sensitive megastore eyes  — so much, in ...