How feminists would see this magazine is in quite a negative manner.
Rihanna is pictured centrally with her back to the camera and staring at the camera with a suggestive look on her face. Her outift is very revealing especially her shorts which leave her on show. This is quite bad for younger kids who look up to people like Rihanna and see this cover on the shelf, and it has the negative connotation of women being sex objects which feminists have worked out to 'stamp out' in pop culture today.
This magazine cover can be compared with the above image of Beth Ditto's NME cover. This shows her in an extremely unflattering manner, wearing no clothes with her back turned and covering her breast with just her hand covering her breast. This cover connotes how Beth Ditto is comfortable with how she looks and doesn't care about what she likes, leading feminists to most likely positively receive this cover because of it's message to insecure younger girls.
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