Background: Pirelli Tires likes to put out a calendar of hot naked or semi-clothed chicks every year. Real high-end stuff, from the absolutely top-of-their-profession photographers: and how did they get them? Because Pirelli let those photographers have complete artistic freedom. Well, the photographer this year (Annie Leibovitz) felt free to deconstruct the entire thing by skipping over the entire ‘hot’ and ‘lacking clothing’ thing, instead creating a Solemn, Even Somber Political Statement About How Men Shouldn’t Enjoy Looking At Pretty Young Women. The entire NYT article is entertaining, without meaning to be – but this last bit is perfect:
Tavi Gevinson[*] also believes the calendar reflects a point of no return, though for a different reason. “A white, able-bodied cis-gendered woman being naked is just not revolutionary anymore,” she said. “I don’t think anyone is going to be like, ‘Damn, I wanted those naked chicks[**].’”
…I am stunned by this woman’s naive optimism. Pirelli’s never going to do this again; because nobody ever forced anybody to put a calendar of hot naked chicks on a garage bay wall. And nobody’s going to be able to force people to put this calendar up, either. They are going to complain about the new calendar, though; and the next photographer Pirelli gets to do their 2017 ad campaign calendar is going to understand what the score is…
Moe Lane
*She appears nowhere else in this article; presumably the NYT assumes that you will know who she is, and why her opinion is relevant. Personally, I am above snickering at the opinions of 19 year olds, particularly when they have a Wikipedia entry and I don’t. But… still. Imagine these people ten years from now.
**I feel that if Tavi Gevinson can use the word ‘chicks’ in this context, then damn well so can I.
Ron White, “Once you’ve seen one woman naked, you want to see the rest of them naked too.”
Normal human behavior is just so DONE. It’s time we broke new ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
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Just sayin’ is all.
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Mew
Biting the hand that feeds you is rarely a good idea.
But for some reason, I figure she’s not going to suffer for her art. Wealthy white women bitching about their victimhood at a dime a dozen.
Tavi is one of the models.
Clearly she doesn’t understand Italian men. I still remember my first visit to the machine shop of the Italian company we purchased. The female shop floor manager turned all of the calendars around one by one as we walked through the shop to the computer I needed to work on. As she flipped each calendar around, she said the only English words I believe that she knew,… “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry…”
So much of Leftism seems to be driven by the neuroses of upper-middle class white women.