Wow, is there a "duct tape" setting in PhotoShop now??

yeah that makes perfect sense.

I agree...enough already with the SATC!

Dear Kristen Davis;

I AM NOT PLAYING WITH YOU. JUST GIVE ME THE DRESS ALREADY.

Mmmmffph! Mmfff. Fffmm ffpphm mmff. Mmmph.

Wow, Sex and the City, Pork Snout, and James Frey. That's an Axis of Evil if ever there was one.

Maybe Teen Vogue will put an 85 pound model on it's next cover with the headline 'Enough Already - we love 'em, but they're just too thin.'

The photoshopping on Kristin Davis is just odd. . .well, the whole thing is odd

@hortense: Ah, but there is Free Beer at the top, leading us into salvation.

ITS - damn you es-ki-mo! didn't you learn anything in grade school?

Duct tape over the mouth makes me uncomfortable -- even if I agree with the sentiment. I don't know, I'd rather they used little zippers.

You know, I would have said we were too SATC saturated, too. But I'm feeling a little touch of old style, second wave feminist rage. Nobody puts duct tape over an image of a woman!

Um, I want free beer, please.

@Meg: Yeahhh...it feels totally wrong. Zippers, however, would be comical and reminiscent of "Beetlejuice."
In other news, Carrie is wearing an outfit that doesn't make me vomit! Alert the media.

@Meg: totally agree. The red circle with the line through it always works, too.

When the fuck is the last fucking time they did this same exact shit to a foursome of men, huh?

YAH, FUCKERS. I DIDN'T THINK SO. NEVER.

This shit pisses me off.

@Khrushchev: That's the first thing I saw, and what will lead me to purchase the mag. I'm over SATC coverage but am totally psyched for the movie. I just want to see what all the hype is about.

@es-ki-mo: OK, now that's just unrealistic!

This should totally be under the "Photoshop of Horrors" category. And I'm just talking about Sarah Jessica Parker's face.

@Meg: Could be worse -- could have erased their mouths, ala The Matrix. Freaky!

Kristin Davis looks like she's wearing a metal surgical mask. egads!

@Skinny Bone Jones: Actually, wasn't their a shoe company marketing campaign that had famous people with duct taped mouths? I seem to remember it had something to do with AIDS, and I saw the ads everywhere when I walked the NYC streets, but I can't remember who did it...

I am going to break into Kristin Davis' house and raid her wardrobe. White lacy dress - you're givin it to me.

@theruraljuror: Well, now with these mixed messages, I only want to see the movie while drinking free beer.

Just kidding. I am going to be first in line for that masterpiece.

"1,965 Ways To Enjoy Your New York, Carrie Free"?
But I thought New York was Carrie's boyfriend?
Time Out is encouraging New York to step out on its lady, it is the Ashley Madison of magazines.

New Yorkers to Carrie: If New York is you're boyfriend, he wasn't last night.

@hatepaperdoll: Your. Crap-a-rama.

And I agree - something about the duct tape is not sitting well with me. It just gives me too strong of a menacing "We'll make you shut up!" vibe to it.

wow, pork is really having its moment.

Also, I think ball gags would be more appropriate for that group.

@brendastarlet: pork has been having it's moment for too long in the stupid offal obsessed New York culinary scene.

@NefariousNewt: Hey, Twilight Zone: The Movie was around before The Matrix!

Um...since when do mags honor something they're tired of talking about by giving it the cover?? This is kind of one of the best press plug for the movie so far...and I still can't wait to see it!

It's an adaptation of 1984. They misinterpreted the whole "Junior Anti-Sex League" sash, though.

I don't like the duct tape either, it's nasty and brutish. (I hate Time Out New York. Their recent hurlworthy sex issue was filled with the unsexiest mofos I've ever seen in my life. What can one expect from a mag who has twirp extraordinaire Jamie Bufalino as a sex columnist, though.)

This cover is also megadumb -- people in NYC aren't annoyed at the sound of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Sam's voices, we're annoyed with this film's endless promotion, with SATC tours, cosmos, Manolo Blahniks, the Magnolia Bakery ...

@Meg: Yeah, but I could remember Twilight Zone: The Movie.

NYC was always called the "The Fifth Lady" of SATC and think SJP actually said it when she won an award for it.

That said, I'm going to play Devil's Advocate concerning the "duct tape outrage" and ask if there's been a recent over-saturated male image connected with NYC to be gagged over? If not, the argument doesn't make much sense. But yes, it's very much a bullshit "have our cake and eat it too" cover. I seem to recall one magazine putting an over-exposed celeb on the cover while swearing that person was nowhere to be found inside the magazine.

@Meg: Gag balls could work as well.

Sisters still look fierce.

I'm more tired of hearing about the democratic race. Give me frivolous SatC nonsense any day.

I'm sorry but this whole cover offends me. First of all, they're profiting through displaying the same old sexuality and media hype about sex and the city, even though they pretend that sex and the city is too overdone, they're still profiting from all the women who're going to pick up the magazine to know of what caused the dissenting opinion. The mere image sells and they know it!

Second, the duct tape is not just not sitting well with me. I couldnt be more infuriated! Its first of all a symbol of shutting up those "old hags" and their stupid opinions about men and society. Personally, I dont find SatC to be a very feminist endavour but at least it has some sense of women's rights to which make my sitting through some episodes at least bearable. Neither am i a flamming fan of the show, but I at least appreciate the discourse. Shutting up symbols of powerful women in our society, symbolically for the cover is basically sending a message to all women of like caliber and who aspire to be like the SatC characters, and showing them their place. According to advertising feminist theory, duct taping, or women with covered mouths but who are also displaying their sexuality and their availability, as surely the SATC women are doing, are rendered the represented into mere objects who have no personal agency of any sort, who are there merely just to be looked at, innert objects for a masculine gaze.
The duct-tapes second symbol of rape, and its use in criminal acts is just as horrifying and patronizing. Zippers, as some readers said would be just as disturbing since I dont find it very endearing rendering women into ziplock bags.
Seriously, do something!

@Macloserboy: Ha, yeah, I was trying to think of the same thing -- a man who's needed an overexposure moratorium. The first thing to mind was when English press got bored of reporting Pete Doherty's drug arrests and ran whole "YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE JUST NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT PETE DOHERTY ANYMORE UNLESS HE DIES" notices.

they really should've given pork the cover.

I wish they would shut up about this damn movie.

@SharonTaint: They wanted to, but pork's publicist demanded final approval over the cover image.

@Macloserboy: I think if we're limiting it just to Time Out and/or New York-centric media exposure, it might be hard to come up with an example. However, can you imagine some publication running with an image of, say, Reverent Wright on the cover with duct tape over his mouth? I just don't see it happening.

@NefariousNewt: Oh! I don't know! It's totally possible. Isn't that different, though? Like, the duct tape is being used to convey a message to facilitate AIDS awareness and whatnot? And this is just..."somebody shut those goddamn whores up already!"

What's next? Hog-tying the ladies from The View on the cover? Boo.

@JessicaLovejoy:
I volunteer to adorn KD with my *ahem* self after you take her dress...

If they're so "tired of SATC" and so ready for it to go away, why the hell did they give it a cover?

Dumbasses.

@Khrushchev: SATC + Free beer = men actually going. Their PR needs to get on that.

Ugh. I don't think they're making a statement about women with this cover. I think they're making a statement about THESE women, or the characters they play. Not every picture of a woman, duct tape or not, is a statement on womankind in general.

And yes, as a New Yorker, I am sick of Sex and the City, this stupid marketing campaign, giggling groups of women ordering cosmos in bars, and Time Out New York.

I dig the "No Sex!" headline since it sticks out from countless magazine covers that scream SEX on the magazine rack. Bring on the pork 'n' beer, goddamnit.

Not a big fan of seeing women silenced on a magazine cover -- even when they should be.

@grood: I disagree. Haven't we seen a cover with Al Sharpton or Guiliani gagged up? Or are these just my Photoshop fantasies?

@bonsaiiiiii: I am so not into pork; it is so easy to ruin and also very easy to doctor up if it is ruined. It's not only the white meat of meats, it's the white wine of meats.

@Macloserboy: I'm sure it's possible, I just don't recall seeing one. My reaction to this cover is based on a history of womens' images being visually silenced for a long, long time. Taking away their voices, etc. It happens all the damn time, without most people giving it a second thought, and it reeks of "shut up, bitch, know your place."

Antoher asshatty attempt at snarky "humor" from Time Out, Inc. Like when Donald Trump had "bought" and was "running" and had a whole new editorial "section" in Time Out Chicago for its April 1 issue. Which came out on March 27.

Gee why don't you tie them up as well? This will be loved by the women haters.

@Macloserboy: I guarantee you the Voice has done something like that with a local pol or developer, but I can't for the life of me remember who.

They've kinda shifted the tone of cover images since the buyout, though -- for a couple months there it was weirdly skin-heavy. I would love to have seen commenters here talk about the Ultragrrl-as-Joan-of-Arc / cleavage-burned-at-stake one.