When Sabrina Carpenter announced her new album Man’s Best Friend two weeks ago, the cover art sparked a lot of discourse. In the photo, Carpenter is depicted on her knees, facing the groin of a person whose face is not in the frame, who is pulling some of her hair upward like a leash. The comment section under our post was a microcosm of the broader conversation about this image; some rejected it as degrading and/or inappropriate, while others proclaimed that critics of the artwork were prudes or asserted that not everything a woman does has to be a feminist gesture. If the photo was good for one thing, it was soliciting opinions.
