BlogHer - mudflap girl - Comments

no thanks

maryannb53 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:39:06 -0500

I don't see this as an image I would like to claim as a feminist no matter what the cause or graphics modifications. I just keep getting an image of the truck driver in Thelma and Louise who had the original version on his truck and the grossest tongue action ever, who was just sure had lured those two into the sleeping cab of his truck. But at least they blew up said truck. That was a good thing to do to those mudflaps. Maybe overkill, but fun nonetheless.
Mary Ann

I only wish I had a kick ass truck I could put them on

Isabel Swift — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:43:19 -0500

Isabel

oh thank goodness

Denise — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:03:44 -0500

Because I feel the same way, Jayne.

~Denise
Fast Times @ Homeschool High & Flamingo House Happenings

laughed and loved it

jcravens — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:32:03 -0500

My first thought was "What a *wonderful* parody of an image I hate." My second thought was a line from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Smart chicks are so sexy.

I'd definitely buy the t-shirt if there was one. Or the mudflaps.

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Jayne Cravens
http://www.coyotecommunications.com

I'm glad other people are

Super Jive — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:38:17 -0500

I'm glad other people are interested in this topic as well. Perhaps the feedback on blogs will make other library systems think twice. I don't know.

Your Pop Culture Librarian also writes almost daily at I, Asshole.

NICE Mary Clare

Lisa Stone — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:51:28 -0500

...to see you know your Big West history:

"without women to double the voting population, Wyoming didn't have enough people to be a state."

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

What is the message of this ad?

WhatLadder — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:35:42 -0500

Really?
What were they trying to get across?
"We have pr0n"?
"Nude chicks reading books inside"?
"We have no books on feminism"?
"We have books on feminism, but we've never read them"?

I would love to read a transcript of the meetings (and you know there were a bunch of them) at which they decided on this as a winning advertising campaign. I also have weird fantasies about how sexist and appalling the ads they rejected were.

Equal Opportunity State?

Mary Clare Hunt — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:11:52 -0500

Oh I have to weigh in on this one. I was married to a Wyoming-ite for 20 years where equality was only a state of mind. Apparently that is still true.

For those that don't know, Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote, had the first woman governor, first all-woman jury, first justice of the peace... just makes you shake your head and wonder.

Oh, that right to vote thing? That's because without women to double the voting population, Wyoming didn't have enough people to be a state. Equality had nothing to do with it.

What a stupid campaign. You can improve your mind, but you'll still as good as mud.

Boobs?

avengingophelia — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:55:46 -0500

Oddly, the first thing that comes to my mind when I look at that image is that the way the mudflap girl is holding the book makes her look flat-chested. Which, in some way, seems to negate her entire being.

Honestly, though, it's just a ridiculous campaign. I mean, it's both demeaning and just plain dumb. But it wouldn't keep me away from free books either. Honestly, I'm not sure what my local library would have to do to cause me to boycott...I shudder to think.

Oh yay!

sassymonkey — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:50:29 -0500

I'm so happy you covered this. :)

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.