Hara‑Kiri n°125 (Février 1972) tackles the growing myth of leisure equality in early‑1970s France, at a moment when skiing was being promoted as a newly “democratised” pastime. Hara‑Kiri immediately punctures that claim with one of its most effective visual metaphors.

The cover shows a rural woman skiing awkwardly downhill, weighed down by everyday necessities: baguettes, vegetables, and groceries strapped to her back.

The headline states bluntly:

“Le ski se démocratise”(“Skiing is becoming democratic”)

The joke is clear and sharp. While advertising and media celebrated mass tourism and winter sports, much of the population remained tied to domestic labour and economic reality. Hara‑Kiri exposes this contradiction by merging bourgeois leisure with working‑class burden, turning optimism into satire.

The image is humorous, but also sociological — typical of the magazine’s early‑70s strength, where class commentary replaced pure provocation. The woman is not mocked; the system that pretends everyone now shares the same freedoms is.