What's Wrong with this Picture II ?

There's been a huge tempest brewing in the internet teapot since last week, when Italy's Partito Democratico (the left and opposition party to Berlusconi's) launched their annual outdoor festival in Rome.  Women's groups were incensed to find the woman depicted headless & as a hot pair of legs, alà Marilyn Monroe, next to the businessman of the day, smiling and fully attired, in a necktie no less.

The Winds of Change

After women's groups started protesting, the PD answered the resulting polemic with their own - incredible - response:

The ad simply depicts a familiar icon and showing a pair of legs doesn't damage the image of women in the least.

They seemed to have forgotten that Marilyn is an icon for about 40% of the population - the heterosexual men amongst themselves...


As for me, while I'm heartened that women are finally taking note and speaking up, I take a more guerrilla approach: 

I find every single poster plastered by the politicos all across the country sexist - since they contain only all-male names running for offices, championing causes, speaking at conventions, rallying the crowds.  

Until the men release the women from their invisibility cloak burkhas (and not in the Berlusconi sense), it's still 'No Country for Women' - young or old.


What do you think?  Sexist?  Fun? Effective?