"I can just picture the manufacturer saying, `What's wrong with that?' but if you stop and try to picture the roles reversed – of a man decked out like a total slut and subservient to his superhero wife, the image is just ludicrous," says "nolan ash" on devildoll.livejournal.com.
You mean the idea of being married to a hot guy subservient to me is ludicrous? Well... damn.
Okay, okay, so I'm not a superhero. But what is all the fuss about? A collectible of a busty Mary Jane doing Spiderman's laundry has sold out already, and created quite a stir.
Someone called Simon weighs in: "I'm a guy, and I'm as grossed out and offended by this as you are. I'm the goddamned target market for this piece of shit and it makes me want to go scrub myself with a wire brush.... Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go mow the lawn shirtless."
You know, I don't recommend that. Sometimes the lawnmowers shoot things out and then if there are mosquitos...
Okay, seriously. Is the fact that (some) men like boobs a newsflash? I wish the picture thing was working on blogger today, because I'd be tempted to dig out an old yearbook. There was this guy in high school, one of the athletic crowd, who dressed up for a costume contest as a male stripper. Tight black pants and nothing else but a bowtie and the applause he got when he won best costume in the assembly that day was proof the girls loved it.
If I was going to be bothered every time we're reminded that men like to look at women I'd never stop taking offense. And I'd be morally opposed to this.
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It sounds like a lot of BS(maybe PC is better). It's hardwired into our biology to preen for the opposite sex(i.e. be attracted to the opposite sex) for the survival of the species. Look all through nature. Whether most people will admit it or not, they look. They might not do anything about it, but they look. They can't help themselves.
What's funny to me is that if some guy writes a story with a broad with legs up to here and boobs out to there and of course the male hero has some young stripper just beggin' for it, it's okay.
Heaven forbid if you ask her to do the laundry, though.
When I was reading about an author signing recently (on a blog) the blogger referred to the author as 'eye candy'. The blogger was female, the author male. Like, come on. It's not one-sided.
Honestly, I think Evil Kev would be more excited by the idea of me doing laundry than anything else. ;) And I'm very excited by the idea of him mowing the lawn.
I sent you the companion piece to that...
HEE!
EAB
Thanks EAB. I don't need the lawnmowing fantasy anymore - I'll just keep that on my desktop. LOL!
I'd get excited by the thought of a man doing HIS laundry... Now there's something for Faraday to do!
Chelbel
Check your email Chelbel - I think you'll like it.
*Grins from ear to ear*
Chelbel
I guarantee author events would be sell-outs if they dressed like that. ;)
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