Ever since I first learned how to post pictures on Doc40, there has been an ongoing discussion about how I have a notable penchant for posting what some girl, one of the original and old school Doc 40 crew, disparagingly refers to as “cheesecake.” This first image would, I believe, certainly qualify as cheesecake, and the story the story set-up certainly plays to serious 20th century, Stepford-style objectification. On the other hand, I fucking love the art. It’s a great Wally Wood classic, the undisputed mega-star of EC and Mad, and, this being the cover of an EC Comic, there will, without doubt, be an evil twist, and the bald, bespectacled nerd will, no question, get his, and find that he’s some 1950s equivalent of a dickless alien and all the deep frozen hotties are of absolutely no use to him. That’s why the Comics Code was invented to put EC out of business. (About the same time as they jailed Chuck Berry and drafted Elvis.)
The set of images below are, however, are an entirely different matter.
once again i find my name used in vain in this ongoing love/hate relationship you have with your own obsession with objectification. don't set me up as some straw woman you can argue with about something i'm not even arguing about. i am a huge fan of wally wood and even own a few volumes collecting his porn comics, which are great fun. (and i also own a reproduction of this very book.)
ReplyDeletesecondly, as also repeatedly stated, i don't give a damn what you post here. it's your blog and you can do what you want.
but i find your defense of jk rowling hollow at best. please don't embarrass yourself by protesting SOME objectification (even as you post the photos you find so disturbing!). i mean, what's the argument here? that jk rowling has proved herself (via her prolific writing and untold wealth) a real person and therefore doesn't merit being treated like a piece of meat? but fictional women and silly actresses -- and, really, any woman other than those you decide don't "deserve" to be objectified -- are fair game?
some animals are more equal than others, indeed.
so next time you have a pang about posting sexist depictions of women ON YOUR OWN BLOG! WHERE YOU RULE! leave me the fuck out of it and just own up to these feelings as belonging to YOU. b/c this is my official notice that i don't give a flying fuck.
but for the sake of that guy on the cover, i really hope all those women don't wake up at once, or he's gonna be one worn-out rocket jockey.
Ouch! I was going to chime in on: "W. Wood was one of the greats, etc.", but after that...
ReplyDeleteThe ladies in those porn comics of yours are FLAT chested Ms. Girl?
ReplyDeleteThe secret word is Peacocks.
Two Frozen Hotties and a beer please, waiter.
ReplyDeleteI guess blood in the water brings out the trolls.
ReplyDeleteThat's sharks, you idiot.
ReplyDeleteSharks don't post inflammatory comments in online blogs, you idiot. :)
ReplyDelete-- the other anonymous one.
darwin:
ReplyDeleteof course. they are two-dimensional, and therefore flat all over.
Two pancakes please waiter.
ReplyDeleteQuint, please waiter.
ReplyDeleteLogically, if this whole thing came full circle, a shark would eat J. K. Rowling while she's bathing and being photograped by the Daily Mail
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