The Halloween costume below, which is produced by Playboy, is called “Sexy Scholar.”

Playboy costume features a dress with side-lacing and back zipper, collar with tie, knee-high socks, and hair ribbons.
The Halloween costume below, which is produced by Playboy, is called “Sexy Scholar.”

Playboy costume features a dress with side-lacing and back zipper, collar with tie, knee-high socks, and hair ribbons.
Here’s an article with a gun vendor talking about women wanting pretty guns.

NEW (Dec ’09)! Harvey tC. sent in this photo of a set of rifles for sale at Ace Hardware in Eau Claire:

Interestingly, when you google “pink gun,” one of the first sites that comes up is Pink Pistols, a gay/lesbian gun organization.
NEW (Jun. ’10)! Jillian took this snapshot of guns for sale at Academy Sports in Oklahoma City, OK:
Click here (and then click portfolio) for before and after photos of lots of celebrities!
This one, a pair with Gwen’s earlier contribution (here), actually takes a little decoding, and so might be useful to get discussion going in a classroom:
If parentheses = suppressed text, then these parentheses = suppressed speech and, of course, the best way to be liberated from suppression is Botox… not speaking your mind.
Pew Research Institute Report


These images are a 3-part ad for a Discovery channel reality show. The first page had the guy with his face being painted and says “Live like a tribesman.” The second page had him running and says “Train like a soldier.” And then, as you can see in the previous post, they show him wrestling with a black African “tribesman,” I guess. It appears this is a reality show where we see if a white guy can learn to be a primitive tribesman and show his superiority to the actual “tribesmen” (I’m not sure how I feel about that term).
Text:
Your left hand sees red and thinks roses. Your right hand sees red and thinks wine. Your left hand says, “I love you.” Your right hand says, “I love me, too.” Women of the world, raise your right hand.
More excerpts from this ad campaign:

The top one says “I don’t strive for success, I am success.” The bottom one says “Celebrate who you are with a diamond right hand ring.”