New Paris 2024 logo is unveiled. Do you think it sexually objectifies women? (Pic)

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rojo

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 11:36am CDT

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The logo features Marianne, the female embodiment of the French Republic, but some aren't happy with how she's portrayed. Feminist Rebeccas Amsellem thinks Marianne has been sexually objectified.

From the Wall Street Journal: "Rebecca Amsellem, an author and founder of the feminist newsletter Les Glorieuses, said she thought the logo was a hoax when she first laid eyes on it."

“On top of it being ugly, it looks like a teenager who’s about to go to the club for the first time,” she said. “It’s really diminishing for women.”

From the Washington Post: "Amsellem wrote, the Olympic logo objectifies women by treating Marianne as an object of sexual desire. “Because of the objectification of which women are victims (even when they are supposed to be a symbol of the Republic), they learn from childhood to internalize the importance of the eyes of others on their faces and on their bodies.”

What do you think? Personally, I think the original logo with it play on 2024 and the Eifel tower was great.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shes-the-face-of-the-2024-paris-olympics-and-france-is-appalled-11571931910

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/olympics-logo-or-dating-app-paris-2024-image-prompts-mockery/2019/10/23/a838e992-f599-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html

Original one:

https://cdnolympic.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/paris-20204-arc-de-triomphe.jpg?quality=100

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MFers be outta control

7 months ago 10/25/2019 11:44am CDT
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I kept thinking I wasn’t seeing the logo that was being talked about. I must be missing something if that image is objectifying women.
MeHereYouWhere?!

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:02pm CDT
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What was wrong with the original logo? It's much better
DietBacon

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:03pm CDT
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Looks like the olympics was sponsored by Tinder
another runner

7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:06pm CDT
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MFers be outta control wrote:

I kept thinking I wasn’t seeing the logo that was being talked about. I must be missing something if that image is objectifying women.

+1

I'm still confused what they are talking about.
alabama runner

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:06pm CDT
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I don’t think that it egregiously objectifies women, but it does look like the Tinder logo.

The Eiffel tower one is better anyways.

Not a white night

7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:07pm CDT
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I see a flame, not a womyn.
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7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:10pm CDT
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I prefer the original is vastly better and the new one is ugly. But there is nothing sexual about the new one.
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7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:12pm CDT
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Olympic game logos are usually quite bad. The worst was the 2012 London Olympics.
So this tinder inspired logo hits the spot.
But I admit I liked the old version a lot better.

https://www.findthatlogo.com/summer-olympic-logo-collection/
desire to be offended

7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:18pm CDT
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The logo looks horrible but doesn't objectify women in any way.
Pierre Delecto

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 12:31pm CDT
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another runner wrote:

MFers be outta control wrote:

I kept thinking I wasn’t seeing the logo that was being talked about. I must be missing something if that image is objectifying women.

+1

I'm still confused what they are talking about.

+1

Libs be crazy!

LOL

Fake outrage.

Sad.
Ernest

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 2:21pm CDT
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IMHO, it doesn't objectify women, but no doubt some radical feminists think so.

The committee that approved this, "Ils sont stupides!"

The spirit of Paris is best portrayed by a lipsticked female mouth?

And, yes, it doesn't help when that's plastered atop a Tinder-like flame.

Looks more like logo for an Escort service than a prestigious International Athletic event.

Replacing lips with a small Eiffel Tower would have been better.

UA Runner

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 2:49pm CDT
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I was thinking it looks more like the Fyre Festival logo. Hopefully Paris 2024 will have better planning.

https://edm.com/news/fyre-festival-netflix-lawsuit
Dufus

7 months ago 10/25/2019 3:05pm CDT
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alabama runner wrote:

I don’t think that it egregiously objectifies women, but it does look like the Tinder logo.

The Eiffel tower one is better anyways.

Abslolutely , the Eiffel tower one is great. But it was designed and built by men , so that might not work.
trolls r us

7 months ago 10/25/2019 3:19pm CDT
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rojo be trollin'
Ivanka T.

7 months ago 10/25/2019 4:10pm CDT
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Ernest wrote:

Looks more like logo for an Escort service than a prestigious International Athletic event.

That's what I thought too.
Eiffel

7 months ago 10/25/2019 4:18pm CDT
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alabama runner wrote:

I don’t think that it egregiously objectifies women, but it does look like the Tinder logo.

The Eiffel tower one is better anyways.

That one looks like a penis.
Pics?

7 months ago 10/25/2019 6:38pm CDT
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Pics?
calbuffalo

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7 months ago 10/25/2019 9:14pm CDT
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What (pic)?:
chicken cutlet

7 months ago 10/25/2019 9:25pm CDT
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I think it's a lame, stupid logo. Do I think it objectifies women? No. Do I think it is in good taste? No. Would I buy something with that logo on it? No.