THIS IS A DIGITALLY PROCESSED FEW SECONDS FROM THE BILL MURRAY MOVIE “LOST IN TRANSLATION”. REMEMBER ALL THOSE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT HE SAYS TO SCARLET JOHANSON AT THE END OF THE MOVIE? HERE’S WHAT HE REALLY SAID, SO DON’T WATCH IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW:
SPEAKING OF SPOILERS … Some feminazi (just a joke, girls, but with a grain of truth to make it funny and not simply disgustingly chauvenist) forced Wal Mart to take some holiday panties off the shelves. The panties say on the front “Who needs credit cards?” Well, here’s the story on Fox News. I think it is funny. When I first started reading the story, I thought sure it would be fundies and I guess that shows my own personal bias against the far right, but NOOOO, it was a slash from the far left fringe of feminism. I may not admire the sentiment or the materialism or the commercialism of Xma$ (and, I don’t, as luck would have it), but this is just a tempest in a teapot. You cain’t force folk to have common sense and you cain’t make ‘em have good taste. It just ain’t happenin’. Rolling one’s eyes and shaking the head slightly to vigorously and then just walking on by was the correct answer. Not only are there better things to worry about, but sometimes what a thing needs most is a good lettin’ alone. Now, all that’s been accomplished is that a few pair of pink underwear that would not have sold all that well will be instant hits in other stores. “Banned at Wal Mart” is my new marketing slogan for all the Marquis of Ennui products at a spamming website near you soon.
Laocoon Blogblah, 15th Marquis of Ennui,
writing from his villa at Pont du Ennui
this 22d hour of the 13th day of December
Year of Our Lord, 2007 (C.E.)
Where weather has turned my hometown
Into a Third World Country of SUV driving idiots.
To determine my level of irritation, I’d have to read the label. It is possible that the corporate purchaser had an extension of Wal Mart’s “go green” initiative in mind when ordering the product in question. In other words, perhaps the panties were made of organic cotton and colored with natural dyes? If so, I might be much less offended. It seems to me the owner of such a pair would then be making two very sound choices: 1) to not go into debt and 2) to minimize her impact on the planet.
This seems like such a tired debate to me. The point of the prior generation of feminists was to give my generation (both women and men) the choice of having sex for money by force or by choice or not. No fair bitching when we decide we’ll make spending money on our backs. That’s not how I was brought up and it sure as hell won’t be how my kids will be brought up, but I’m not going to judge someone else for doing it. Or in this case, poking fun at the process.
BTW, where is the outcry from short, fat, old, bald dudes standing on their wallets, or Santa in this case?
:::The panties say on the front “Who needs credit cards?”::::
Where would you slide your credit card, in any case?
Oh, wait….