Not even these images, it seems, are enough to sideline Kanye West.

This latest stunt signifies the nadir of his misogyny: What looks to be an intimate act performed in public, in a boat in Venice, in a Catholic country at the height of tourist season, his ‘wife’ — always in scare quotes, can’t even give her the dignity of formal recognition — seemingly on her knees, her head between his legs, her face caught not so much in ecstasy but despair.

It all feels so seamy and desperate. Pornographic, really. But double standards are stubborn things, especially when you claim, as Kanye does, extreme Christianity – to the point of starting your own church.

If this were Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian, she’d be called an unfit mother, a national embarrassment, a slut and a whore.

Consider that Britney Spears, Kanye’s closest female analogue as a fallen star, has been ripped apart this summer for far less: Chasing a newly-minted NBA star through a Vegas lobby; installing a stripper pole in her home; posting videos of herself dancing in crop tops; getting a divorce; losing her sons.

Her mental illness is still something the culture scorns. Kanye’s is something the culture finds mesmerizing.

Not even these images, it seems, are enough to sideline Kanye West.

This latest stunt signifies the nadir of his misogyny: What looks to be an intimate act performed in public, in a gondola in Venice, in a Catholic country, his ‘wife’ seemingly on her knees, her head between his legs, her face caught not so much in ecstasy but despair. It all feels so seamy and desperate. Pornographic, really.

Lizzo’s alleged licentiousness — not proven, merely alleged — has led to her swift cancellation. HBO’s ‘The Idol’ is no more, criticized for its pornographic misogyny and glorified rape fantasies.

But Kanye West, bare bum hanging out, his ‘wife’ nestled in his crotch in front of tourists and long lenses? The outrage feels muted.

He’s been called to account, rightly, for so many unforgivable proclamations.

West is a rabid anti-Semite. His worst proclamation, quite possibly, was this tweet last October: ‘I’m going death con 3 on JEWISH people.’

He wore a ‘White Lives Matter’ shirt — the mantra of neo-Nazis and white supremacists — at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris that same month.

And Ye, as he is now known, did suffer real fallout: He lost fashion partnerships with Balenciaga, the Gap and Adidas, an ensuing $400 million loss in revenue that got him kicked off his much-longed-for spot on the Forbes Billionaires List. He was dropped by his law firm and Creative Artists Agency and lost athletic partnerships. He was denounced by many celebrities and now, for all intents and purposes, is a marginal figure.

And yet, he endures. There is one sin he has yet to suffer for, though, and that is his misogyny. Is it enough to bring him to his knees?

Also: Does anyone think Kim Kardashian wants this version of him anywhere near their four children? Or the daughter he once publicly said he thought about aborting? During, by the way, a rally he held while running for president of the United States in 2020?

Imagine Britney running for president. Or Lizzo.

Kanye West has always had issues with women. It’s been clear since 2009, when he ambushed Taylor Swift on stage as she accepted MTV’s Best Video by a Female Artist at the VMAs.

‘Imma let you finish,’ he said — how gracious — ‘but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!’

Swift was 19 years old.

He’s been called to account, rightly, for so many unforgivable proclamations. West is a rabid anti-Semite. His worst proclamation, quite possibly, was this tweet last October: ‘I’m going death con 3 on JEWISH people.’

And yet, he endures. There is one sin he has yet to suffer for, though, and that is his misogyny. Is it enough to bring him to HIS knees? (Pictured: Bianca Censori before she married Kanye, right).

Then came Kim Kardashian — a quid-pro-quo relationship to be sure, but Kim later admitted that Kanye made her feel insecure: about her looks, her physical appearance, her taste level. He insisted on giving her an extreme makeover, some of which was filmed for ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians.’

‘I always thought I had really good style,’ Kardashian told a Business of Fashion panel in 2018. ‘Until I met my husband, and he told me that I had the worst style.’

He threw out the bulk of her wardrobe and filled her closet with designer clothes and shoes. He fired off emails telling her what she could and couldn’t wear. He took her to Paris to meet with high-end designers, only for Kim to be turned away.

‘No one would dress me,’ she said — except for Kanye’s close friend Riccardo Tisci, then at Givenchy.

The pair put a heavily-pregnant Kardashian in a skintight floral abomination for her first Met Gala in 2013. It came to be known as ‘the couch dress’, a humiliation that left her in tears.

‘I was crying, like, the whole way home,’ Kardashian told Vogue in 2019. ‘There were all these memes about me and this couch.’

After divorcing Kardashian in 2021, West moved on to C-list actress Julia Fox.

She, too, wound up with a total image overhaul courtesy of West.

‘After meeting him, a few days later, all my s**t was in boxes, gone,’ Fox told Interview magazine last year. She was told that if she wanted to be seen with West in public, she needed to meet his sartorial approval.

Fox went from garden-variety starlet to a severe-looking future-sex-bomb seemingly overnight. She dropped weight, donned skin-tight leather S&M ensembles and crop tops, swaths of fabric that exposed her body, dark black slashes of eye make-up that made her look like something out of ‘Blade Runner.’

All for a month-long romance.

Kanye West has always had issues with women. His marriage to Kim Kardashian may have been a quid-pro-quo relationship, but Kim later admitted that Kanye made her feel insecure: about her looks, her physical appearance, her taste level.

After divorcing Kardashian in 2021, West moved on to C-list actress Julia Fox, who went from garden-variety starlet to a severe-looking future-sex-bomb seemingly overnight.

Now, Kanye’s new ‘wife’, Bianca Censori, has undergone a transformation just as rapid, but even more disturbing: Wrapped head-to-toe in what looks to be sheer pantyhose, her long hair chopped off, her head often encased or otherwise obscured, rendering a young, attractive woman unable to see or speak or express herself in any way, really.

This is what Kanye West thinks of women.

We’ve heard all the excuses for his many offenses: Kanye’s a genius. He’s mentally ill. He’s a performance artist, a provocateur, a sideshow attraction holding up a mirror to our own cultural absurdities.

How’s this: Kanye West is a misogynist. He seems to hate the women he’s with, and the more they submit to him the more he seems to resent them.

So add women to the populations Kanye West feels contempt for. May this latest humiliation render him, finally, persona non grata.

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