Why aren't feminists up in arms about the slut-shaming of nude Melania Trump?

The Post’s resurfaced photos seem like less of an attempt to humiliate Trump than to humiliate Mrs. Trump. It’s not the nude photos themselves that are embarrassing, but that Melania continues to prove a scapegoat for her husband’s reckless presidential campaign.

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All the more reason, then, for prominent feminists to speak up about the Post’s tasteless covers. Perhaps they haven’t done so because Melania is not a feminist herself, at least not publicly. Could this be why feminists are not rushing to the defense of a woman who isn’t part of their tribe, particularly when the woman is the trophy wife of one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history?

Surely Dunham and others would be outraged if the Post had resurfaced nude photos of Ivanka Trump, who is at least well-spoken and sides with women in her speeches—and advocates for working women via her fashion-focused blog—even while promising that her grotesquely misogynistic father will Make America Great Again.

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