Also the busts of antiquity are at least physically possible, since they emulate actual humans. The "zombie" bust is more of a representation of what select group of people thinks the female form should look like, bordering on physical impossibility (see: gravity).
One has only to look at the torso's, er, dimensions, to be quite certain that the intention was neither to mimic classical art nor to portray a standard horror trope (not that that would make it okay). An aspect ignored by TChick and the like-minded.
I'm trying to fend off the idiocy in their Dead Island thread, but I'm not going to touch the comments section for his front page story on it.
I hope that doctor lost his license. They still look terrible, even if you assume they're a representation of implants.
I think his point is that horror as a genre is often a Puritan morality play about the evils of female sexuality and therefor... um... that makes it ok? Because god forbid we move forward as a society.
There is not a single angle from which anything on that bust looks remotely proportional. Even the arms look off, for what little of them is even left.
You know what I also can't not look at? That bikini bottom. Where's that going to go? That's not going to cover a vagina.
Looks like Tom is right after all. I mean, you wear a thong on a zombie-infested island, what do you think is going to happen? Also, US version contradicts the explanation in the "apology" that this was only for Europe and Australia, don't it?
I expected it to be thong. But it's also a thong on the frontside. It's like a shoelace. To cover a vagina.
Obviously that just proves the point that it is a misunderstood masterpiece, with the ripped apart, thin american flag covering the equally ripped off and not offensive penis as a sign of protest against whatever. Nothing to see here, move on.
I'm guessing it was originally going to be available worldwide (with flag themed bikinis per country) but then some higher up in marketing nixed it... but only for America, presumably on the basis of nudity concerns. This only makes their decision process sound infinitely worse.
Either that or they did a small run of American Flag versions to send to journalists as schwag. That happens quite a bit.
Or it could just be that they thought through the flag bikini to the same degree that they thought through the rest of the thing.
That's certainly possible but I think quatoria is probably right. They might have made a run of these and either had some left over or realized how tasteless it was and banished them to the overseas market.
Hahaha "We shouldn't stop objectifying and alienating women when it's been our tradition for years and years."
"It's an established tradition! An enduring institution! An integral part of our lives!" Yeah. So was slavery.
That was totally different, guys. Slavery had victims. We're talking about changing horror movies here!
A mother tries to get the school to intervene because boys are bullying her daughter about her large breasts. School administrator tells her to get her daughter breast reduction surgery.
Well... according to a lady who also demands that the school combat bullying by explaining to the other kids that God made her daughter's big boobs and his design must not be questioned. :/ Not sure what to make of this story. It seems unlikely that a school administrator actually suggested that this woman get her child breast reduction surgery. Not impossible of course, but I'd be more inclined to believe that that's what happened if the article a) included a version of what happened from the other side and/or b) didn't include the mother saying something else that's kind of nuts too. Until and unless we get some more information, I'm inclined to agree with the superintendent that it's probably some kind of miscommunication. It seems more likely to me that the administrator said something dumb and insensitive--perhaps something like "look, I can't do anything about this bullying, and unless your daughter gets a breast reduction or something it's probably just going to keep happening even if we transfer her"--and it morphed into what the mother now claims she said. Then again, this wouldn't be the craziest thing that a school official has done in the past few years. It probably wouldn't be in the top ten. So who knows?
You realize that's really not any better, right? It's still inappropriate non-action and blaming the daughter versus taking responsibility for the problem and stepping up to deal with the issue, as is the administration's fucking job. Maybe it's morphed into something worse in translation than it originally was and maybe the mother's on rationale is problematic, but in no way is any version of "well a breast reduction would help" an acceptable response to this problem, ever.
I have no idea how you could have read my post as a defense of telling people to give their daughters breast reductions. The tone of that hypothetical quote was sarcastic, if that helps.
Well, you started by downplaying the mother, then proposed theories on how it's really not so malevolent at all, just a little bit of miscommunication and she probably didn't even say it like that. If that's sarcasm, it's not coming across at all.
