Comments on: Pop Quiz

By: Bree

Bree — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:57:37 +0000

The Ruby doll looks like Beth Ditto in her new photo shoot.

By: shiloh

shiloh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:56:57 +0000

Which is why the head and face look odd, good catch!

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:05:34 +0000

“(Couldn’t they have found a reference photo of an actual fat person?)”

Well, they HAVE them, but they’re all headless …

By: sillymharia

sillymharia — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:29:46 +0000

I know everyone else has said it, but I love the Ruby Doll. As a younger (I’m just now 23) woman with big smooshy breasts, I find her pair absolutely fascinating. Especially the way she’s posed. I’ve been thinking all day about how awesome her doll boobs are and I think it’s sort of helping me re-appreciate mine. I spend my working time during the day in a narrow kitchen and bakery environment (with two female co-workers out of 70) where space is a definite premium, so I put a lot of effort into making sure they’re strapped down and restrained before I take off to work in the morning. I think they’re long overdue for some special treatment – I’m definitely taking the girls out for a fancy-free swim at the beach come summer and having my picture taken with them in that pose, too!

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:05:18 +0000

…so has Mattel sent the makers of the first ad a cease-and-desist letter yet? Or is it OK because that fat Barbie is a self-hating fat Barbie, whereas Ruby is fat and loves it?

By: SugarLeigh

SugarLeigh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:50:10 +0000

Mim, that’s a great idea but I’m totally not talented (or patient!) enough to make my own tapestry. I was thinking I’d love to have reproductions of some of those Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries. But if I had my pick of what to include on a tapestry: unicorns, dragons, trees, stars, the moon, and a big hill. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to have one right over the top (facing me while I lay down to sleep) with a really cute topless fellow on it. Look, if guys get pinups I want one too! XD

Speaking of pinups I wanted to mention something about the fat pirate toys, because Men in Full’s post on that image reminded me of yet another way those ads FAIL. That being, I would totally snog a guy that looked like that fellow in the back of the pic with the big earrings and the no-shirt.

Geez, I really have making out on the brain today, don’t I? XD I blame not getting into grad school. I need some comforting steamy smoochings, I’m thinkin’.

By: Rhia

Rhia — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:21:28 +0000

Just for the record, the Brazillian ads are encouraging people to donate toys they’re not using to relief efforts for some kind of crisis – they tag line is “This toy wasn’t made to just sit around.”

So it’s a shame they’ve conflated the two, but they’re not really being used for any lifestyle message…

By: Mim

Mim — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:23:20 +0000

You could totally make your own tapestries for bed hangings. It'd take for bloody ever, admittedly, but the content would clearly be better and less laden with insipid maidens etc. If I made my own they would feature me having tea and cake with a dragon while watching Doctor Who, which is almost certainly not commercially available.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:24:57 +0000

Knitting Barbie!
Does she get to go yarn-shopping and have Stitch n bitches with her friends, discuss cables, socks, her dog, best adaptations of Austen, the progress on her novel?
I want one!

By: SugarLeigh

SugarLeigh — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:25 +0000

Elsajeni, I agree with bed-curtain love. I personally desire a big four-post bed, with a canopy. If I could afford or find them, I would totally hang tapestries up for the canopy part, just like they did in ye olde olde olden days. Then I would sit in my bed-cave and pretend to be a dragon. RAWR.

… my future husband had better like playing dragon or else he’s gonna need to sleep on the couch a lot.