Should you judge a magazine by its cover? Unequivocally, yes. This is prime real estate that has the very real power to influence public opinion. To motivate. To stop you in your frenziedly-scrolling tracks. Miriam Margolyes’s viral cover shoot for British Vogue’s July issue, for instance, matters. Here, the 82-year-old actress and Instagram’s “f*** it”-fluencer poses topless. A glorious sight to behold — so rare it is that we see it.
Sure, as Julia Roberts says in Notting Hill: “They’re just breasts, every second person in the world has them…”. In some ways she’s right. Why should this supposedly innocuous female body part get any special attention? But they do. Women are still raging over the right to their own bodies. Boobs on display still cause disproportionate distress. Heck, am I causing a disturbance even writing about them?
