scout: bbbrad: nedhepburn: apoplecticskeptic: brooklynmutt: Esquire: Is the poster for the new season of Mad Men a desecration? Or just how we continue to reckon with 9/11? Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man, by Tom Junod Yeah, and I think this is how we should count to 20 from now on : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 People need to stop treating 9/11 like it’s some sort of religion. It was an incredibly sad event and an important one too but damn, people, quit fetishizing it. It’s a poster of a guy falling. Move on. Fetishizing is the right word. Uh, I’m pretty sure people are allowed to be offended by any image they deem reminiscent of 9/11 and I would hardly consider that fetishizing it. Honestly, the first thing I thought of when I saw this poster was that image, and I’m over it, but the connotations are still there. Fetishizing it, really? I stood on the street and watched people jumping to their deaths on that day, and it pretty much looks exactly like that poster. Conscious or not, it is a pretty specific image and you’d have to be foolish not to notice the similarity. They certainly have a right to publish it, just as I have a right to be offended by it. Again, fetishizing it? Excuse me while I go use a picture of the ovens at Dachau to advertise prompt delivery of my piping hot pizza. Those damn holocaust survivors are just fetishizing it.

scout:

bbbrad:

nedhepburn:

apoplecticskeptic:

brooklynmutt:

Esquire: Is the poster for the new season of Mad Men a desecration? Or just how we continue to reckon with 9/11?

Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man, by Tom Junod

Yeah, and I think this is how we should count to 20 from now on :

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

People need to stop treating 9/11 like it’s some sort of religion. It was an incredibly sad event and an important one too but damn, people, quit fetishizing it. It’s a poster of a guy falling. Move on.

Fetishizing is the right word.

Uh, I’m pretty sure people are allowed to be offended by any image they deem reminiscent of 9/11 and I would hardly consider that fetishizing it. Honestly, the first thing I thought of when I saw this poster was that image, and I’m over it, but the connotations are still there.

Fetishizing it, really? I stood on the street and watched people jumping to their deaths on that day, and it pretty much looks exactly like that poster. Conscious or not, it is a pretty specific image and you’d have to be foolish not to notice the similarity. They certainly have a right to publish it, just as I have a right to be offended by it. Again, fetishizing it? Excuse me while I go use a picture of the ovens at Dachau to advertise prompt delivery of my piping hot pizza. Those damn holocaust survivors are just fetishizing it.