Wired Magazine & Boobs

Cindy Royal, a Texas professor who writes about the media and technology, wrote an impassioned blog post about the cover image finally pushing her to the edge. She wrote a break-up letter to the magazine:

You’re better than this. You don’t need to treat women in this light to sell magazines. You have the power to influence the ways that women envision their roles with technology. Instead, you’re not helping.

Nancy Miller, the senior Wired editor who conceived and worked on the story said she loved the cover and expected it to be controversial. The magazine piece talks about the success of regenerative technology and the image of healthy breasts seemed appropriate to Miller. “I think the cover image is strong, beautiful, anatomically accurate, and pretty bad ass,” she wrote.

In Conversations wants to know if Royal realizes she’s helping to sell magazines and why there aren’t more women like Miller.