-By Warner Todd Huston
Ms. Magazine is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year and it has a very special message for its upcoming fall issue: Vote Obama or you’ll die.
Forty years ago Ms. Magazine featured DC Comic Book Super Heroine Wonder Woman on its cover. In 1972 the main worries for feminists was body hair, cash for performing housework, and Simone De Beauvoir. But 40 years ago it was also about “how women vote” and along with featuring Wonder Woman on the cover, just ahead of the 2012 presidential election, Ms. is repeating that theme.
Ms. Magazine’s 1972 Debut Cover
Only, this time instead of “peace and justice for ’72,” a reference to the Vietnam War, Ms. Magazine is all about another war. Unlike 1972, though, Ms. Magazine’s war for 2012 is not a real war. It is a faux war. It is a “war on women.”
And this war is so intense that Ms. is telling its readers that if they don’t vote the correct way, well, their very lives are in danger.
On the fall 2012 cover underneath a leaping Wonder Woman, we see pleas to “stop the war on women,” and “2012, Vote as if your life depends on it.”
Ms. Magazine’s Fall, 2012 Cover
So, you see, Wonder Woman isn’t the only fantasy element of Ms. for Fall of 2012.
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40th Anniversary Ms. Magazine Says Vote Obama or You’ll Die”