... and then Spider-Man pitched a tent big enough for three rings and an elephant.

[apocalypsos]

A collectible Mary Jane figurine that'll make you want to punch the designer.

I think of several things when I see that figurine, once I get past the seething rage.

1. Is it bad that I'm surprised she's even wearing clothes at all?

2. ... okay, seriously, I'm trying to think of something intelligent to say and all I want to do is choke a bitch.

3. My best friend wears thongs to work at our twelve-hours-a-day factory job (hard to miss, considering they ride up every time she bends over) and I just ... I can't even ... I don't know. I can't even wear those things. They're ridiculously uncomfortable and you're going to wear them for anything other than either a night on the town (one of the few situations in which you're usually pretty but uncomfortable) or for a booty call? Seriously?

4. No, really, can I choke a bitch? Or perhaps I should say misogynistic asshat?

Comments

[shei.livejournal.com]

[delurks]

Actually, I only wear thongs. I started wearing them years ago because I was extremely paranoid about pant lines showing and became so used to them I see no point in wearing anything else. Though, I'm also paranoid about them showing so I always make sure they don't.

I am more interested in her to and the fact she's doing laundry actually.

[/delurks]

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the laundry thing is the big thing, along with the fact that she's got ridiculously huge breasts and the thong showing halfway past her belly button.

The thong is the part that just hits me on a personal level, though. Why does that need to be on that figurine at all?

[hawklaw.livejournal.com]

That right there is the biggest bag of WTF-ery I have ever seen.

Plus, he's a Superhero, he's a science geek...he can't come up with a fucking machine washable costume?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

There's several things about that figurine that just make me want to hurt someone --

1. The laundry. Of all the thing she could be doing, they pick THAT?
2. The cleavage. Is that really necessary? Apparently, since why would boys want to see her doing laundry otherwise?
3. The thong showing. Is there any reason at all for that to be on the figurine other than to give guys a thrill?

It's not like they have to tart her up. She's Mary Jane. She's sexy no matter what she does. That's the point.

[ejayye.livejournal.com]

God. ASSHOLES.

[runcible.livejournal.com]

Well, there goes MY lunch.

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

....seriously, what the fuck.

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

....

I take it the figure is made by the people who came out with the new Supergirl?http://yendi.livejournal.com/1262718.html

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

Dear Supergirl,

If you're ever flying over Metropolis and you're wondering why your midsection is freezing, just be grateful your arms are toasty-warm all the way to your wrists --

Oh, wait ...

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

yeha, my general idea about thongs is "why would I intentionally wear underwear which is like Perma-Auto-Wedgie?"

That said, I somehow own 8. o.O no idea how that happened.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

....on the plus side its SPN day?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I have to work tonight. Meaning I miss all four of my shows that are on tonight.

*headdesk*

[medie]

I keep coming back to *INCOHERENT RAGE* *SMASH* *KICK*

I mean...THE HELL?!

Heh, thongs? I happily refer to them as butt-floss. No matter who I see wearing them? ALWAYS right up there. Thus, I fail to see the 'hot' of them.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. My thing with thongs is that every time I see someone wearing them they're either wearing them so small they've got to be cutting off the circulation to their legs, wearing them so high everybody and their mother can see them, or wearing them so well everybody doesn't think they're wearing underwear and CAN'T STOP STARING.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

Thongs are definitely a personal preference. After a while, you don't actually notice them. But yeah, it's definitely a personal thing. As for the figurine, there's just so much wrong with it that I don't know where to start...

[abbylee]

Totally not on point, but...

3. My best friend wears thongs to work at our twelve-hours-a-day factory job (hard to miss, considering they ride up every time she bends over) and I just ... I can't even ... I don't know. I can't even wear those things. They're ridiculously uncomfortable and you're going to wear them for anything other than either a night on the town (one of the few situations in which you're usually pretty but uncomfortable) or for a booty call? Seriously?

Personally, depending on what I'm wearing, I find them much more comfortable than the other options. (G-strings only, I find thongs horribly uncomfortable, and it's very important to get the right size.) I don't think I'd be likely to wear them to an intimate encounter, because I don't think they're flattering, but I definitely group them as comfortable. I not only wear them to work but I wear them to hockey. It's not about sex, it's about comfort.

But, yeah, full of rage for the figurine.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I'd get uncomfortable because I've got an irregular period and I never know when that sucker is gonna show up. And then I also get urinary tract infections a lot, and one of the ways to prevent that is to wear just plain, cotton underwear...

Alas, I cannot wear thongs anymore.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

That is just . . . every damn sexist asshat fuckhead assumption about women rolled up into one horrid figurine. I can't even . . .

Not that MJ has that much to do, but . . .

She might as well be a monkey with a red ass, the ways she's presenting AND she's washing his costume????

I . . . yeah. No words.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. Fuckers. *heads over to the girl-wonder forums for a dose of sanity*

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Here, have some puppies to cheer you up.

[elz.livejournal.com]

That's so many different kinds of offensive, it's actually impressive.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

It's like, wow, how many ways can one piece of resin be offensive? Let's find out!

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

Everything else aside, I always wear thongs; well fitting ones can't be felt at all, I hate the look of panty lines, and I buy the low rise type so mine NEVER peek over the top of my pants (I find that look to be very trashy).

They're not 'for a booty call' or for a night out, they're my every day thing.

I hate the way regular pantie feel. It's either thong or commando here.

As for the figure, I wouldn't buy it as to me it isn't all that attractive or interesting, but it looks like most comic book geek guys' wet dream right there.
Since most of them will never have the social skills to get within touching distance of a woman who isn't their mom, meh, doesn't bother me really.

Then again, I have better things to do than to get pissed off over a doll.

THAT all said, I thought Mary Jane was supposed to have red hair. Did that change at some point?

[strippedpink.livejournal.com]

dear god, that thing is AWFUL. I can't believe they even allowed it...oh wait, yes I can. People are MORONS.

[strippedpink.livejournal.com]

OH and about thongs...I wear 'em. *g* But let me assure you, it's a dancing thing. You get used to them, and by the time you're done everything ELSE feels weird. SIGH.

[ladyelaine.livejournal.com]

Thongs should be sold with a tube of Preparation-H. And 12-year-old boys have no clue what kind of back pain such a pose would actually cause. Not that MJ would ever be caught dead wearing such tastelessness. (But wait! It's not tasteless as long as there's pearls! Yeah!) Or retrograding her female independence.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

I think having her do his laundry is in wicked poor taste.

As for the slutiness of the figure; it's aimed at 13 year old boys who are comic book geeks. There's no surer way to sell something to them that to make it a half (or less) dressed woman.

My marketing professor in college opened our first class by saying "If you want to sell something; link it to sex, fear or greed."

I don't think most people would be half as offended if she was doing something non-demeaning. That's not to say the outfit isn't offensive. It makes her look like she should be working a corner.

I'm just saying that if you took a figure of her in that outfit doing something else, and put it next to a figure of her dressed less provocatively; but still doing his laundry by hand; I think more people would be offended by the second figure.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

At first I thought that was some -misogynistic, unfunny- joke, at which case it is at least comprehensible, but for it to be a genuine, corporate-made product to be marketed? I angries up the blood. The worst thing is that the existence of that figurine prooves that misogyny is wallpaper: it is OK to do it, no one notices/ if they do thay don't mind because it is the name of the game and the way of the world. And they get to say that whoever opposes is just a humorless bitch.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

The only way to put an end to things like this is for no one to buy it. Unfortunately, I'd be willing to bet there will be a run on the figure. You'll have all of the 13 year old boys who've never even gotten close to a woman and all of the "collectors" who figure the uproar will cause it to be pulled from the shelves lining up to buy it.

I think people do notice and do mind; but I think we've just stopped fighting. There's just too much offensive material out there (Of course, what's "offensive" varies greatly from one person to another). There's the attitude that you can't beat them; you sure as hell aren't going to join them; so you can only ignore them. "You" being the general populous; not you personally.

I don't think the real problem with the figure is that she's dressed sexily. I think it's the image it portrays with her doing laundry by hand while dressed that way is really what's disturbing (to me anyway).

It's the portrayal of her as a cross between a sex toy and a servant that's the issue here, IMO. It's demeaning to all women.

On the flip side; it's offensive to people (like me) who grew up reading spiderman. My comic book days are long behind me; but when i see a character from something that was part of my childhood totally warped and mocked; it pisses me off.

[sweill.livejournal.com]

Personal underwear choices aside, that figurine is the most casually (and therefore the most horrifyingly) sexist, objectifying piece of crap I have ever seen.

I don't even know how to REACT.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

*blink blink*

... that's the most appalling lowbrow sculpture I've ever seen. Ye gods, cater to the stereotypical unwashed undersexed misogynistic comic-geek much?

Bleah. *ponders midnight raids on sculpture warehouses to cause "accidents" and cripple any hope of profit margins*

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.

*seethe*

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

You know what's more disturbing than that?

When your first reaction is, "Oh, another one for the pile."

[hulga828.livejournal.com]

I can only hope those figures are being sold with a handy brown bag for 13-year-old boys to sneak it back into their room and stash under the mattress.