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Apr. 1st, 2008
Real men don't have nipples
Apr. 1st, 2008 05:26 pmSaw this yesterday and laughed my fucking ass off. (Story here.)
This?! This is what we've come to? We've regressed to a point of uber-gender roles and prudishness that real, manly men can't have nipples exposed even though the rest of their boobs are? I suppose this is a weird sort of equality, since we're comfortable with female boobs being on display so long as that DEAD SINFUL centerpiece stays covered up.
Ooh, maybe this is really an attack on those crazy scientists who believe in evolution. Those freaks believe that the stages of evolution are sort of recapitulated in miniature in embryos before they become more recognizably human fetuses. And, as most people know, since sex-determining hormones don't kick in till much later, this is why all human babies have nipples even though men don't develop any underlying structures to provide a use for having one. BUT IF MEN HAVE NO NIPPLES THAN THAT TOTALLY NEVER HAPPENED.
Myself, I'm laughing still because men not having nipples is exactly what freaked me about about revisiting my childhood when I watched episodes of the old He-Man series. If people couldn't figure out that the only two guys in Eternia with page-boy haircuts and identically, exotically colored tigers were one and the same, I think they could at least do a nipple count. I'm sure I remember seeing some on Bo (that delightfully sissy hero on She-Ra, aka the only man not threatening to the heroine is the gay one), so if all the men of Eternia and Etheria were to just lift their shirts, they'd nail Prince Adam for being He-Man in one go.
No nipples. IT LOOKS WEIRD BECAUSE IT IS. There's something fatty about not having nipples, too. Seriously, look at Meaty McHamSlab front and center. That's a guy with no testicles but about a thousand more steroid-ripped muscles than you'd normally find in the whole of the Orlando area, and yet? He looks kinda fat. Nipples, man, they give you definition. On such normally sex-charged posters as this (what, you don't agree that photos of slighty sweaty, greased up men have any sexual connotation?), the missing nipples would serve as corners to their pectorals. Nipples give the edge of muscle.
(And, TMI, they'd be--if they weren't airbrushed out--pretty pert and erect, too, which makes the stuff underneath look taut and not saggy fat. You can tell a lot about breasts by the nipples, see! This is partly why you don't see too many female boob statues/pictures with unerect/unaroused nipples either. The more pointed the nipple appears, the more tone to the shape underneath.)
This?! This is what we've come to? We've regressed to a point of uber-gender roles and prudishness that real, manly men can't have nipples exposed even though the rest of their boobs are? I suppose this is a weird sort of equality, since we're comfortable with female boobs being on display so long as that DEAD SINFUL centerpiece stays covered up.
Ooh, maybe this is really an attack on those crazy scientists who believe in evolution. Those freaks believe that the stages of evolution are sort of recapitulated in miniature in embryos before they become more recognizably human fetuses. And, as most people know, since sex-determining hormones don't kick in till much later, this is why all human babies have nipples even though men don't develop any underlying structures to provide a use for having one. BUT IF MEN HAVE NO NIPPLES THAN THAT TOTALLY NEVER HAPPENED.
Myself, I'm laughing still because men not having nipples is exactly what freaked me about about revisiting my childhood when I watched episodes of the old He-Man series. If people couldn't figure out that the only two guys in Eternia with page-boy haircuts and identically, exotically colored tigers were one and the same, I think they could at least do a nipple count. I'm sure I remember seeing some on Bo (that delightfully sissy hero on She-Ra, aka the only man not threatening to the heroine is the gay one), so if all the men of Eternia and Etheria were to just lift their shirts, they'd nail Prince Adam for being He-Man in one go.
No nipples. IT LOOKS WEIRD BECAUSE IT IS. There's something fatty about not having nipples, too. Seriously, look at Meaty McHamSlab front and center. That's a guy with no testicles but about a thousand more steroid-ripped muscles than you'd normally find in the whole of the Orlando area, and yet? He looks kinda fat. Nipples, man, they give you definition. On such normally sex-charged posters as this (what, you don't agree that photos of slighty sweaty, greased up men have any sexual connotation?), the missing nipples would serve as corners to their pectorals. Nipples give the edge of muscle.
(And, TMI, they'd be--if they weren't airbrushed out--pretty pert and erect, too, which makes the stuff underneath look taut and not saggy fat. You can tell a lot about breasts by the nipples, see! This is partly why you don't see too many female boob statues/pictures with unerect/unaroused nipples either. The more pointed the nipple appears, the more tone to the shape underneath.)
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Apr. 1st, 2008 05:26 pmSTILL LAUGHING. (You're looking for the black and white picture, third from the top.)
It's the crazy eyes. That and the fact he looks like Dr. McCoy on a particularly bad day. Oh man. Got the giggles, so it's time to get out of work before I attract too much attention.
It's the crazy eyes. That and the fact he looks like Dr. McCoy on a particularly bad day. Oh man. Got the giggles, so it's time to get out of work before I attract too much attention.
Gough and Millar: OUT!
At this point, I'm convinced that anyone else--including Tom Welling--could write, direct, etc. this show and do it better. I wonder what led them to quit before the 8th season. Oh well, I'm sure![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viridian will tell me, she has the inside track on this sort of thing.
At this point, I'm convinced that anyone else--including Tom Welling--could write, direct, etc. this show and do it better. I wonder what led them to quit before the 8th season. Oh well, I'm sure
viridian will tell me, she has the inside track on this sort of thing.It's FINALLY here
Apr. 1st, 2008 05:26 pmBattlestar Galactica returns tomorrow night! It's gonna be 10 pm, and I'm inviting folk up to mine and feiran's if they like for the watching. Let me know if you're coming and we'll see about ordering in food and the like. There may even be use made of the obscene blender of perfect frozen drinks!
feiran's if they like for the watching. Let me know if you're coming and we'll see about ordering in food and the like. There may even be use made of the obscene blender of perfect frozen drinks!(no subject)
Apr. 1st, 2008 05:26 pmOh, ah, eight works for people to come over. You can come over earlier, however, if you'd like to see feiran beat Bioshock. (Or possibly me waste time on Mass Effect some more.)
BSG's at ten, and I am not even getting up to hit the button once that's on, so's you know.
feiran beat Bioshock. (Or possibly me waste time on Mass Effect some more.)BSG's at ten, and I am not even getting up to hit the button once that's on, so's you know.
Best quote ever, from Joss Whedon re: Battlestar:
If anybody has a theory about it that turns out to be right, that's a retroactive spoiler and I have to retroactively kill them.
You hear that,viridian? JOSS WHEDON SAYS STOP.
No, I love that that's what some people get out of it, but I never want to know. I always want to be surprised. ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LET ME BE SURPRISED IS GETTING AIRLOCKED. I WILL FIND A WAY. I WORK IN A LAB. A VACUUM ENVIRONMENT IS CONCEIVABLY WITHIN MY REACH.
If anybody has a theory about it that turns out to be right, that's a retroactive spoiler and I have to retroactively kill them.
You hear that,
viridian? JOSS WHEDON SAYS STOP.No, I love that that's what some people get out of it, but I never want to know. I always want to be surprised. ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LET ME BE SURPRISED IS GETTING AIRLOCKED. I WILL FIND A WAY. I WORK IN A LAB. A VACUUM ENVIRONMENT IS CONCEIVABLY WITHIN MY REACH.
Don't believe me? Watch this. (Sorry, embed disabled, stupid YouTube.)
Somehow, I managed to remember that Tenacious D was in the video and that Dave Grohl and the other guys in the band (there are others!?) play a thousand different characters (though not that the reason The Foo Fighters take over flying is because everyone gets dope in their coffee).
What I didn't remember is Dave Grohl (the steward) having a crush on Dave Grohl (the pilot). I mean, I remembered that Dave Grohl (the teenage girl) had a crush on Dave Grohl (Dave Grohl), but I missed the part where he was literally gay for himself. He's also, I guess, trans for himself. Wow. It's a good thing he's funny or this self-interest would be a real turn off. (It helps that he's cute.)
Somehow, I managed to remember that Tenacious D was in the video and that Dave Grohl and the other guys in the band (there are others!?) play a thousand different characters (though not that the reason The Foo Fighters take over flying is because everyone gets dope in their coffee).
What I didn't remember is Dave Grohl (the steward) having a crush on Dave Grohl (the pilot). I mean, I remembered that Dave Grohl (the teenage girl) had a crush on Dave Grohl (Dave Grohl), but I missed the part where he was literally gay for himself. He's also, I guess, trans for himself. Wow. It's a good thing he's funny or this self-interest would be a real turn off. (It helps that he's cute.)