It’s almost like you can’t win with feminists.

Via Huffington Post:

TIME’s stock cover photo is lazy sexism at its best. As has been pointed out, it seems to have been plucked right from the slides of The Cut’s November piece on “Feminism According To Stock Photography,” and as author Jessica Valenti tweeted, it’s just “the latest in a long line of ‘feminist shoe crushes man’” images. (It’s worth checking out the compilation of such stock photos Valenti has up on her blog to get an idea of how common this trope really is.)

Isn’t there any way to discuss female power without resorting to stiletto metaphors and flailing, helpless dudes? For the love of all things good, can’t we be a little more imaginative next time we try to represent a powerful woman? Let’s leave the man-crushing, kitten heels behind. If we don’t, it’s going to be a very long road to 2016.