Letters to the Editor
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To compare the Rape of the Sabine women to
ANTM is awful. ANTM uses those pictures to glamorize and perpetuate that violence against women is nothing to be shocked at, just another day in the modeling world. The Rape of the Sabine women was painted because that's how people in the past got their history, from painting because most people could not read. It did not glamorize carrying women off as prizes of war and the painting pretty much reflects how horrible it was. That same painter also painted the Raft of the Medusa, depiciting the drowing deaths of sailors.
Those photos are not high art, they are high fashion, meaning overpriced clothing which means they are advertisements which is why at the side bar in fashion mags is listed who made which articles of clothing so you can go out and buy it too.