The main image of Beth Ditto that this magazine is centred around, is fairly controversial in the public eye, featuring a woman that not only goes again the majority of women that are featured on magazine covers, but does so in a fashion that is central to the 'Male Gaze'. The red font and fluorescent yellow background is used to further accentuate the sexual nature that is being portrayed through the central image, with the quotation "Kiss my ass", proving to be quite intimidating, also portraying the idea that Beth Ditto has done this to prove a point, in a slightly derogative manner. The feminist Laura Mulvey, with her theory of the Male Gaze, would associate itself with the inference of this image, as the way Beth Ditto is represented in this image, is in the exact same manner that other females are. However, with the exception that her physique is not slender or like that of a model, of the type of woman that the Male Gaze accommodates.
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