Outrageous... Father in Parenting Magazine Pic with Dart Through his Forehead

Magazine: Parenting School Years Magazine
Issue: February, 2009
Pages: 94 - 100.
Article URL: http://www.parenting.com/article/Mom/Relationships/Mad-at-Dad

Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Authors web site: http://www.marthabee.com/

I received my issue of Parenting Magazine today and was I mad over the article “Mad about Dad.” Check the web site (above) to see a picture of a smiling dad on a dart board. After several “misses” (holes in the picture) the final shot lands right in the middle of his forehead.

The picture in the magazine was so big it covered not just one page, it overflowed onto the second. Other photos in the magazine article included:
Husband and wife on a boat with devil horns, beard and tail sketched over the man.
Voodoo doll with pins stuck all over including one stuck in his juggler vein, another stuck in his forehead, another in his heart, etc.

I don’t need to get into the content of the article. The photos were enough.

I could not find Susan Kane’s email address who is editor-in-chief of Parenting Magazine and told her that articles like this are not only contrary to the mission of the magazine, it further advocates violence against men as a way of dealing with a women’s frustrations.

Interesting - Susan Kane’s previous positions were Executive Editor of New Woman Magazine and Senior Editor at Woman Magazine.

I don’t mind that men are the brunt of jokes but to photograph men with a dart and pins in their foreheads and juggler veins, well enough is enough.