Sabrina Carpenter swears shes just having fun but theres nothing funny about her regressive new album cover

Sabrina Carpenter has unveiled a new album cover to her millions of fans on Instagram: an image of the pop singer, on her knees before a man wearing a suit and yanking her by the hair.A man upright and standing; a woman genuflecting on the ground.Him fully dressed, anonymous and face out of frame; her fully exposed, in a barely-there skirt and sky-high slingbacks.

Him asserting dominance with a tug of the hair; her submitting totally, mouth slightly agape.The power dynamics couldn’t be any clearer, but the upcoming album’s title — “Man’s Best Friend” — really sends it home.It puts women on the level of dogs … cute little pets, there for male enjoyment.It’s an amazingly regressive message from a supposed girl-power icon, and it does a tremendous disservice to the millions of girls who look up to stars like Carpenter for cues about femininity and womanhood.Carpenter might intend the cover with a wink and a nod, but even if she’s in on the joke, her youngest fans are not.The 26-year-old “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” singer first captured Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s hearts on Disney Channel, where she played Maya on the show “Girl Meets World” from 2014 to 2017.Like many former Disney stars before her, she launched a successful mainstream career and stooped to hyper-sexualizing her music — and herself — to delineate this new chapter from her kid-actor past.Take lyrics from her song “Bed Chem:” “I bet we’d have really good bed chem … Come right on me/ I mean camaraderie… And I bet we’d both arrive at the same time/ and I bet the thermostat’s set at six‑nine.”Or her song “Juno,” an allusion to the 2007 film about a teen pregnancy: “Wanna try out my fuzzy pink handcuffs?… If you love me right, then who knows/ I might let you make me Juno… Adore me, hold me and explore me/ Mark your territory, I’m so f–king horny.”A parenting blogger for the popular site ScaryMommy.com, makes the case for parents ...