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Has the Esquire editor escaped from a Benny Hill sketch?
(Posting from work, too bizarre, kind of, to pass up)
Ladies, I have an important question for you. If you were a car, what kind would you be? Perhaps you'd be something nice and girly, like the 1965 special edition Playboy Mustang? Or the Compact Pussycat, as driven by Penelope Pitstop of Wacky Races fame, complete with grooming facilities? Perhaps you'd be a Chrysler's 1955 Dodge La Femme, developed specifically for us females, coming as it did with a matching handbag? Or maybe you'd opt for any old car – provided it has those special eyelashes that you stick on the headlights that make your VW Beetle look like Danny La Rue.
As much as all those ladycars stimulate my biologically inbuilt "oooooh pink!" reflexes, personally I'd opt for a DeLorean DMC-12, for the simple reason that it would be able to transport me to a time in the distant future where Alex Bilmes, editor of Esquire, no longer exists.
According to Bilmes, Esquire uses pictures of women in his magazine "in the same way we provide pictures of cool cars". "The women that we feature in the magazine are ornamental," he said while speaking on a panel about feminism in the media and advertising. "I could lie to you and say we are interested in their brains as well. We are not. They are objectified." (I would imagine he endeared himself immeasurably to the audience in the process.)
As much as all those ladycars stimulate my biologically inbuilt "oooooh pink!" reflexes, personally I'd opt for a DeLorean DMC-12, for the simple reason that it would be able to transport me to a time in the distant future where Alex Bilmes, editor of Esquire, no longer exists.
According to Bilmes, Esquire uses pictures of women in his magazine "in the same way we provide pictures of cool cars". "The women that we feature in the magazine are ornamental," he said while speaking on a panel about feminism in the media and advertising. "I could lie to you and say we are interested in their brains as well. We are not. They are objectified." (I would imagine he endeared himself immeasurably to the audience in the process.)
http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/20/editor-esquire-benny-hill-sketch
No shit?
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It would be a M-----er F---ing TANK!
Unless I was slumming, in which case I would be a '67 Camaro SS.
Geez. What a jackass.
It's a made up thing! Complete nonsense!
Men talk to women, they don't talk to cars! This makes no sense!
I give him credit for being honest. It would be nice if more people gave a shit about this constant dehumanizing background noise we are surrounded by.
People act all shocked and surprised that so many boys and men treat girls and women so poorly and horribly in so many ways. I wonder how the fuck they can still be surprised.
Men talk to women, they don't talk to cars! This makes no sense!
I give him credit for being honest. It would be nice if more people gave a shit about this constant dehumanizing background noise we are surrounded by.
People act all shocked and surprised that so many boys and men treat girls and women so poorly and horribly in so many ways. I wonder how the fuck they can still be surprised.