I'd like to think I've seen it all. I really really would. Afterall, I read Ms Magazine for the ads. Sadly, I live in a state of constant delusion. The trees are nice there though, unlike spikey Billy trees. I was stunned today when I sat down with Metropolitan Home and found an ad for Artistic Tile. It is a woman in a clad bikini with tile polka dots. So, now architects can get in on the fun of objectifying women thru advertising. Oy, we are just so lucky in 2009!
This was last month's ad. (I cannot find the ad I am looking for on the Internets.) Pay special attention to the caption next to the model:
What gets me about all of this is that women are now part of this pervasive sexist skank culture. In her book entitled Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy makes the argument that women are actually furthering the patriarchy for men today much more than in previous generations of women. That is to say that they now define sexy in terms that are pleasing to menm but under the guise of choice. In doing so, they give men what they want more easily and freely. Proof in the pudding? Take a look at the CEO of the organization of Artistic Tile: Jewish in last name and female. Wow. I weep for Sarah, Leah, and Rebekkah. Objectifying herself and me, in addition to all other women is how she plays it for pay? Wow. Just wow.
I encourage you in writing both Artistic Tile and Met Home with threats of taking your business elsewhere and exposing their actions. We, as feminists, no longer have to stomach this kind of sexism.
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I may use the spiky trees, but I don't put cheesecake-porn in my renderings. I may be male, but strive for less than full-on patriarchal asswipery.
ReplyDeleteI do, however, wonder why Sketch-up equals throw up in your title. I LIKE Sketch up....
Focus, please.
ReplyDeleteLess questions, more writings to people about your outrage on this issue.
Well, I recall some cheesecakey photos posted by a coblogger....
ReplyDeleteWhat you remember are photos that were taken from professional photography sites. Beyond that, said co-blogger makes no vouch for them, nor does s/he/it/bird/spider/goyim use them as a means of advertising except to Fish. You know, because he's kind of a, well, you know.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I understand, AG. Aren't both cases objectifying women's bodies? One is for commercial purposes, true, versus a Q-list bloggo, but the commercial images were pretty much the same thing, albeit without the Dirty Old Man ad copy.
ReplyDeleteHelp me to figure it out, because I have a typical male's enthusiastic visceral reaction to women's bodies, while also trying to resist the more stupid patriarchal mores....
Plus, taunting feeshy has become a way of life. But he seems more intrigued by Magnets and Zardoz than babes...
ReplyDelete(Magnets and Zardoz would make an EXCELLENT band name)
(I know, FOCUS).
What professional photographers are using the in question photos for is the question. What was the purpose initially before and during the shoot and what is the purpose in the end sans production?
ReplyDeleteAs for Fish. I think he's really not a Scientist. I think Dr. Fish runs a gov't Internets Lab where he tracks photos of things like Pangea earth or maybe the ad AG is looking for. I sense pLover is on this because of the spiders. Basement labs often contain spiders in them. Yep. They do.
I canz prove:
Has anyone ever seen Fish and Pinko Punko in the same room? That is to say, have his fancy Keen's from Neiman Marcus ever pressed polyesters with red trackie?
Exactly.
pLover, who blogs on 3Tools is just there as a mole to divert our attention away from Pinko. Thus, we do not notice the similar science writing styles between his posts and Fisherman.
It is my contention that Dr. Fish is just another gov't suit looking to keep us down and derail our civil rights. Yes, on the Interenets with a candlestick. I said it. I totally did.
We got a few lawyers in this group. Can we get a class action suit against "Dr" "Fish-stick"?* I will no tolerate my blog persona being spied. I have rights. Paul Horwitz (A hot Canuck Jew boy that AG may or may not have pressed flesh with on more than one occasion. La. La.) supports my tuckus on part of this issue.
From hence forward, I will exclusively refer to fish as DoraAGent9599. My own personal file name for him is confidential, though.
NY Law Firm Letter to follow.
OK, maybe it's the bathtub meth, but I understood almost none of that.
ReplyDeleteBut, is this my takeaway: Objectifying women's bodies for the purposes of selling tile is BAD, but objectifying women's bodies for the purposes of pursuing married Jewish doctors is OK?
ReplyDeleteNo. I posted photos for him to illuminate that he comes over here to my posts when porn is involved. Otherwise, he's in the gov't Internet Labs spying on us and looking for photos of the last known hunter gather tribe of the Amazon that starts with a letter Q
ReplyDeleteMagnets and Zardoz would make an EXCELLENT band name
ReplyDeleteOr it would be an excellent law firm, or perhaps, a fine pasta dish or a vineyard. Move over Martini and Rossi!
OK, can I nominate that for the weirdest thing Sir Jen has ever said?
ReplyDeleteThat is not even the weirdest thing she's said all day!
ReplyDeleteCome on. She had me having an abortion once and a Bubie bringing a vibrator to a seder. She has ordered blue moose ice cream. She added her own stuff to her legal contract with SC because they made her sign something about being pregnant while in classes.
She keeps it real the old school way.
That is the beauty of Jennifer. You just never know. Ask DoraAGent9599 for her file. It's filled with many a good one liner.
Hey, did we ever find out what the Bubie brought?? Hmmm??
ReplyDeleteYou know, you two are starting to sound like an old, married couple
You want legal action? How about disgusting slander you typed?
ReplyDeleteNeiman Marcus? That place is so pedestrian.
And my verification is gallsi, which I am pretty sure is going to be the word of the day on Colbert.
My own personal name for fish will be Bill.
ReplyDeleteBill the Fish. He joins the pantheon with Bill the Clock.
ALSO: I will disagree with coblogger. Beauty of Sir Jen is her ability to take bloggery inanities and turn them into creative impulses. An impressive Gift, and the capitalization is PROPER right there, indeed.
ReplyDeleteBill, you are correct it was Nordstroms. The record has been corrected.(Even if you went to the shitty one at Mont. Mall. Yes, AG knows where you live and high end stores. Black belt in shopping and her OWN spy lab.)
ReplyDeleteYou Pilgrim cannot disagree. You must love, honor, and OBEY.
Jen, it was a cell phone bill that she wanted us to start calling the numbers she did not recognize! No lie.
LOL!! And... did you?
ReplyDeleteZRM- you cannot start calling fish, "Bill". I'm confused enough already. How about Bob?
Oh great... my word verification is "suicidr". This coming after I my "Which Crazy Bitch Are You?" quiz said I was Sylvia Plath.
Was someone talking of ovens, ZRM??
No. After she told me about the son who has never had a relationship beyond six weeks, I saw the crazy we were dealing with and stayed on my side of the table. Plus, E. was too busy laughing at her for us to do it.
ReplyDeleteword verify: metasex
That much have been meant for filthbot.
I wouldn't buy these tiles, also, if the store had this poster up, I'd complain to the manager and take my business elsewhere. Even if they took it down.
ReplyDeleteThis is why AG and AA are BFFs!
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeleteI do alot of my home improvements myself. I'm not afraid of getting dirty or of lifting heavy things and I don't like the implication that I should be wearing tile rather than laying it. Now, let them put a sexy guy in a tile skirt, I might think of buying their product. ;)
Maybe if the guy were wearing tile, you'd lay it. :)
ReplyDeleteHey, you lay a guy and tile correct the first time -- you can walk all over both for life.
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