Their boobs were watching god
The Ashton Kutcher-produced show Beauty and the Geek is wrong on so many levels, but it’s this promotional poster that truly disturbed me.
Any thoughts? (And be careful what you say; my boobs are watching.)
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While they were airbrushing this woman's photo for 48 haours or more with Photoshop, couldn't they have put some more muscle on her arms? Or did they trim away any muscle tone she had?
I'm not going to complain a whole lot... I don't really have any basis to do so, being a guy. I find the "using the woman's body as a marketing lure" thing to be tiring, but I guess it works, or they wouldn't keep doing it. On the other hand, I don't expect I'll be tuning in to watch this show... ever.
I guess I'm disturbed most by the prospect that Ashton Kutcher could be involved in the production of anything other than french fries at a Burger King.
Reality telivision in general dropped beneath my contemp years ago. Once again the lowest common denominator rules in the land of the free.
I take it that "the Geek" is a man? How typical! Why not have that role given to the woman and either another woman or a man play the geek role? Oh, right, because A) women are never geeks and B) we'd never be able to play on the stereotypes the show and the poster are based upon. Speaking of the poster which is typical of Kutcher's sophmoronic humor, is the model airbrushed to look like Demi Moore?
"...and either another woman or a man play the geek role?"
I meant to write have another woman or man play the "beauty" role. Heck, why not mix it up more?!? Grrr...
I doubt they'll even cast real live geeks. Probably just typically attractive guys with black-framed glasses. Who might have seen Lord of the Rings twice, or play computer games.
This reminds me of my rule never to rent a movie whose cover either is entirely taken up by a woman's chest (use extra caution if there are o's over the nipples) or if it is a picture bordered by a woman's spread legs.
OK. Norbizness, your comment just about killed me. That was freakin' hilarious.
Oh yea!! I get to watch another show about "dumb blondes" and "average Joes"? How ever do they think of this stuff? Could it be the same tired stereotypes women have been reduced to for thousands of years? Moronic sex objects? Naw, couldn't be...