Originally, the article in question had a photo of two geek girl models - Jennifer Wenger and Michelle Prenez - who were dressed as Supergirl and Wonder Woman, with a caption regarding how the editor "would have sex with them while listening to them talk about how different they are for playing Halo" even though "The above girls aren’t super hot, per se."
Classy.
After friends of the two models called Synthesis out on the insulting commentary and using the picture without permission (to say nothing of the irony of objectifying women in an article that was meant to be calling out this kind of behavior), they replaced the picture with a generic close-up on a woman's chest clad in a "talk nerdy to me" t-shirt with the text "(Ed. Note: The above girl isn’t super hot, per se, but yes, I would have sex with her while listening to her talk about how different she is for liking Star Wars.)"
Google Cache Reveals All! The spelling errors! The sexism!
At first I thought the writer was an idiot. I'm beginning to suspect that everyone associated with this magazine might be similarly lacking in mental faculties.
Still, that's no reason why you can't write to the management of Synthesis and make your opinions known. Again.
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