Courtesy of feministing.com and the SWS listserv.
These are pretty disturbing for a number of reasons. Maybe it is just my wish that they aren’t real, but I’ m skeptical about whether they really exist. They don’t appear to be photoshopped, but even though they’re linked all over the internet, I couldn’t find the actual place/s that sell them. And while I was searching around I found this mouse pad. Note that the size of the mini skirt is really very disturbingly small.
And I also found a lot of people who want to buy that pencil sharpener. And one person who thinks that this knife holder is “far more offensive” than the pencil sharpener.
What do you think? Oh, and the knife holder is available multiple places including here.
Comments 24
Lisa — November 29, 2007
Wendy,
Here here. Those are truly disgusting. Yikes.
Gwen — November 30, 2007
I might need a lobotomy to erase these images from my brain.
Is the mini skirt made by the company that puts out that Axe cologne? I notice there's an AXE logo on it.
Pupate — December 1, 2007
I've seen the pen holders at a store called Spencer's.
It's in our local mall.
It is full of stuff similar to that.
lmw — December 9, 2007
Here's a link to a post I did about the pen holder:
http://lmwpensieve.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/lusty-linda-this-one-deserves-another-mention/
It includes links to where you can buy it--along with the male version of the product.
Xander — December 16, 2007
Oh my... someone gave us that knife holder as a housewarming present in my last apartment. I actually rather liked it- and the bread knife was awesome!
I didn't find the knife holder particularly offensive. That article claiming that it was more offensive than the sharpener seemed pretty lame. The writer gives it the name "All Men Are Bastards Knife Block"- is it actually sold as that?. It seems that he's just trying to make a point.
I also found it odd that the in both his article and in several comments, the pencil sharpener is described as being engaged in a consensual sex act- which seems impossible, given that she doesn't have a head.
My first reaction to both the pencil sharpener and the pen holder is that they're extremely tacky, tasteless items. I imagine that, for men who own those, sharpening their pencils is as close as they're going to get to actual sex. -X
A — July 4, 2008
I have seen this before: http://images.google.es/images?um=1&hl=es&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aes-ES%3Aofficial&q=bush+pen+holder&btnG=Buscar+im%C3%A1genes
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George — March 9, 2009
"I also found it odd that the in both his article and in several comments, the pencil sharpener is described as being engaged in a consensual sex act- which seems impossible, given that she doesn’t have a head."
Jessica at Feministing also noticed that "her" hands are also bolted down to the "floor", so "she" couldn't be consenting. Jessica also pointed out that the bolts could have been painted over, but it hadn't been...
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Claire — April 6, 2009
Urgh, these things make me want to throw up. Especially the one of the woman's head with the cigarette or whatever-it-is in her mouth. Even if they don't exist (and I think they do because some men really will find them amusing) they are still sick, humiliating, degrading, and objectifying....
Kat — April 10, 2009
The picture of the Bush pen holder that A linked to is very different than the rest of the items in this blog to me. The most notable reason being that Bush is a (in)famous international figure who is ridiculed and hated because of his words and deeds. The women in the items above are all just women. None of them is a specific person with the privilege of being hated for what they've done. Nope, they are all just women with breasts and vaginas, which automatically puts them in the position of being treated this way by and for perverted men.
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Inny — November 26, 2010
I bought the knife holder in holland for my boyfriend...they call it in holland: voodoo knifeblock
I REALLY had no idea...
Guest201 — December 30, 2011
They sell the second item at the gas station near my house. It is a real item.
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Guest42 — June 26, 2013
I'm not offended by either the knife holder or the pencil sharpener. but I will say this: Women have willingly had anal sex before. Very few men have willingly had a knife put through their head.
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