Mindy Jovanovic sent in a vintage advertisement for “Stuffed Girl’s Heads”: fake heads meant to mimic the taxidermied trophies of hunted game oh-so-popular among some types. Mindy said, “Now I think I’ve seen it all.”
Well Mindy, I hate to disappoint you, but I think I have something even more offensive to show you: Jingle Jugs. At least the girls have heads in this “conquest,” Jingle Jugs are just fake dancing boobs mounted on a board (hard nipples included). And they’re not vintage. Oh no, they’re for breast cancer awareness.
Image borrowed from Dangerous Minds.
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
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Marc — March 24, 2011
"Blondes, redheads and brunettes for every man to boast of his conquests...." She looks like a blow-up doll.
Vintage or now, I gotta believe that things like this, (and Jingle Jugs) serve as powerful class markers. Can you imagine seeing those things on the wall in an upper-class suburban home? It's the wall-hanging version of that Harley T-shirt that reads, "If you can read this, the Bitch fell off"
It might be interesting to look at things like this primarily from the perspective of appalling Bad Taste, of which sexism is a sub-category.
ano — March 24, 2011
Carol J Adams landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat cover the many similarities between objectification of women and the animals meat eaters treat as slaves and things to kill, harm and prod.
http://www.caroljadams.com/spom.html
Dr. Ivo Robotnik — March 24, 2011
Oh, thank you. Nightmare fuel.
Joe — March 25, 2011
This reminds me of an article by The Onion headlined "Posters of Naked Women Fail to Draw Real Naked Women to Dorm Room"
ATGGAATAA — March 26, 2011
I've been working on an analytical paper on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and the first thing that popped into my head was "Gaston would totally have one of those".
guillotine — April 5, 2011
i send attach to your email address Stuffed Girl’s Heads of every person you like.
Please send for me her pictures to this email address : guillotine_1981@yahoo.com
Please don’t look at camera when you have take a photograph.
Please read carefully and try:
1.picture of her face from profile view with out smile.
2. picture of her face looking down from front with out smile.
its free......
Nicole Natale — June 24, 2012
There was actually a cartoon in a men's mag (probably Playboy) years ago that showed "mounted breasts" or boobs, if you will...and a lecherous old guy was looking at them with a salacious grin on his face, obviously basking in his "conquest". So it can/and always will get worse.