Stuffed And Mounted: Linda, Lola, & Louise
This is from an ad for Lucky Tiger hair tonic in an old Esquire magazine:
Now, the “our product will help you catch girls” advertising line is as ancient as advertising, and treating women as trophies and/or loot in the imagery is a tradition just as venerable. A man sees; a man is not surprised. But still. Notice how the notional capes were generously cut so the trophies could be — dammit, the word is “mounted” — to display cleavage? Notice how the trophy nameplates are all girls from the “L” gallery of his extensive collection? Notice how the reader is invited to pick one out for himself? That asterisk is not helping, either; it leads to prose at the bottom of the ad that offers “a picture of Linda, Lola, and Louise suitable for framing” in exchange for a box top.
A different era. Me? Not so nostalgic for it.
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A different era? Maybe not as much as we’d like to think. As I viewed the post, there was an ad immediately to its right of three naked women standing and bending forward with their hands on their knees, photographed from beside and behind. Only a small shift in the position of one of the models would be needed to make that the view from the other side of the wall.
Hmm, yeah, Kink.com actually has a bondage wall that can be used that way. But to me there’s a world of difference between consensual BDSM portrayals and “women as dead animal trophies”. I just don’t see the connection you’re making.
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“…the reader is invited to pick one out for himself…”
If our aspiring polygamist overlords get their way, perhaps we can soon enjoy all three!
According to prolific cult/occult author Richard Abanes and co-author Sandra Tanner (a close relative of Bringham Young and an ex-Mormon), in their 2003 book (“One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church” on the history and mechanics of the Mormon church), on the basis of the prophecy, Mormons expect the US to eventually become a “Mormon-ruled theocracy divinely ordained to ‘not only direct the political affairs of the Mormon community, but eventually those of the United States and ultimately the world'”, and that “a Mormon, if he were elected president, would take his orders from Salt Lake City. This book was published long before Mitt Romney was considered as Presidential timber by the way…
In 1842, Mormon founder Joseph Smith (already wanted for confidence scams), revealed his plan to establish the millennial kingdom of God, which will eventually establish theocratic rule over the entire planet.
As Mormons, we will all have to give up alcohol, coffee, caffeine containing soft drinks, Red Bull, and tea, but not procreation-intended sex!
Why pick one, when you can have the blond, the brunette, AND the redhead!
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