Hillary Nutcracker w/stainless steel thighs (I don't care who you are, that's funny):

[cyberpj]

I have no interest in this company, just happened to get the email and ordered one for my Christmas party nut bowl.
Can't wait to see peoples' faces. And what a conversation starter!

This 8-inch plastic figure captures Senator Clinton in all her walnut-crunching glory, with stainless steel thighs that can pulverize even the hardest shells.

Quotes on the box ( and who they're attributed to: )
“I can feel Bill’s pain,” - Barack Obama.
“Hillary Nutcracker - that’s redundant,” - John McCain.
“No comment,” - Bill Clinton.



http://www.wickedcoolstuff.com/hinu.html

[Kutjara]

1. Oh, I get it. She's a woman who wants to do a "man's job"...

...so that makes her a "nutcracker," right?

I wonder if they make any Obama lawn jockeys? If we're gonna be sexist assholes, may as well be racist ones too.

[cyberpj]

4. Wow. I guess the world has really become way too PC for me. I like Hillary AND this joke. nt

[soothsayer]

50. me, too! I bought a couple before when DU was so outraged about the ad

I think they're great!

[I work for workers]

14. Lighten up. I have a Hillary voodoo doll someone gave me on my desk at work,

and I'm a progressive lobbyist hoping she becomes president. It's all in good fun.

[Kutjara]

29. And you don't see the difference between a "voodoo doll"...

...and a "nutcracker" with "stainless steel thighs?" Okaaaaaay....

[I work for workers]

54. Most of the "spells" are pretty sexist, stuff like

"give Hillary a bad hair day" or "make her further emasculate Bill". It's a harmless gag gift.

If I was so thin skinned as to be offended by this, I'd have to quit the internet.

[Forkboy]

2. Sexist shit.

I was in a Newbury Comics store last week (yeah, I was buying a Godzilla DVD...what of it?!?!) and they were selling them. I asked the girl at the counter what she thought and she just stuck her finger in her mouth to make a gagging motion. Sums it up.

[beevul]

40. OOOOH!!

What DVD?

I'm a HUGH fan of the big green guy!!

I watch final wars almost weekly!

[Forkboy]

44. LOL

I got both Godzilla vs Mothra and Ghidorah:The Three Headed Monster. My vids were toast and the DVDs from Classic Media have been well done so far. Good fun! :)

[beevul]

47. Spectacular!

I know the...mainstream...does not necessarily share our feelings about these classics...they don't sit as well with the CGI generation...but I love em!


But IMO they are among the greatest ever made. Good fun they are indeed!


I am sad that the big green fella is currently "retired" but I believe that someday he'll be back.

[Forkboy]

56. Oh, he'll be back before too long.

There's an idea for a 3D Godzilla short film for Imax, which may or may not get done. Here's the latest I've seen on that.

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2007/08/07/the-long-evolution-of-godzilla-3-d/

I fully expect that there will be news on a real movie by 2010. It's easy money for Toho, though I wish they'd make one every two years instead of rushing them out every year like they tend to do. Give the makers two years and a slightly bigger budget (why Gamera 3 can come out in '99 and still look better than all the G movies after it is beyond me, though Final Wars has some great effects mixed in with the cheese) and I think we'd get some real good movies.

As for the CGI, I wouldn't mind if they incorporated more of it into the G movies, but not to the extent we saw in the American one. The miniature work they do is mind boggling, especially in the Millenium series (the sound set for Godzilla 2000 had to have been huge), and I love it just for the craft itself, but a little CGI would let them do more dynamic shots. Just don't get carried away with it. If they did go CGI though I'd prefer they go %100 CGI like Final Fantasy:Spirits Within or something. The mix of live action and CGI though is usually pretty iffy. One tends to detract from the other.

It was nice to get the DVDs and see the letterbox prints and Japanese versions. The original Japanese version of Gojira is way heavier and more somber than the American version with raymond Burr that we all grew up with, and you realize how many references to the bomb were edited out. And like I said before, my old tapes were just about toast. After a couple hundred plays they just don't look so good anymore. :)

[Ilsa]

3. I saw one at Hastings today. Way overpriced at $25. Won't sell

here at that price.

[Whisp]

5. really shows who the lowbrow knuckledragging crowd in here is

to think this is supposed to be funny.

[cyberpj]

6. really shows who the judgemental namecalling rulemakers are to dictate what can be funny to others.

[Whisp]

7. laugh away,

wouldn't want to take that braying manly fun away from you.

but sneeriously, maybe you just need a bit of guidance or something and don't realise how poisonous this kind of stuff is. Making fun of and reducing a woman to her sexual parts hurts all women - even the ones You love and care for.

[cyberpj]

37. It only takes a moment to check a profile. It wasn't "braying manly fun" at all:

I am female. I am in my late 50s. I was involved in women's lib and worked hard for equal pay movements. I can remember days when this would have been a tribute not a slam. And tonight it just happened to make me laugh. I meant no harm. But it was indeed eye-opening to be instantly labeled and called some of the things I was called by people here.

It does take all kinds of us - and that's what I remember about progressives - not so much the instantaeous assumptions and judgements based on so little information. I was hit a lot harder with a 'with us or against us' mentality than I could ever have imagined here. Lesson learned.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Quote:"I don't care who you are, that's funny"

You tried to dictate what can be funny to others in the OP.

[blondeatlast]

58. I was about to say... Thank you. nt

[Selatius]

12. Comedy is rarely politically correct in my experience.

Did that not dawn on you yet?

[Lex]

25. Comedy at least has to be funny or clever

at a minimum.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. What a concept!

:)

[Dr. Strange]

33. "Saved by the Bell" was on the air for four seasons...

and spawned two spinoffs. Clearly comedy does NOT have to funny OR clever.

[Selatius]

38. That's the rub. Who arbitrates what is and is not comedy for people? You?

Let people have their laughs, regardless of tastefulness or lack thereof.

[Kutjara]

31. But good comedy isn't clichéd, predictable,...

...and tired either. And "jokes" about strong women being "ballbreakers" are all of those things.

[Lex]

35. Exactly.

nt

[Selatius]

39. Who judges good comedy? Let each individual decide, I say.

I hate to play devil's advocate, but it goes back to my point about comedy rarely being PC. Different people find different things funny, and some of that you won't find funny.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

41. You're not funny.

[Selatius]

42. Since when did playing devil's advocate ever equal trying to be funny? n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

43. The best humor doesnt try to be funny, it just is, so relax and be yourself.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Oh I get it - powerful women who crush men's testicles

What do I win?

[L. Coyote]

9. Yeah, very appealing to morans, I guess. Despicably sexist and tasteless too.

I was expecting an Broadway production :rofl:

[Generator]

11. Sigh.

If only she was a nutcracker, she's more an appeaser in nutcracker clothing.

[Ino]

13. Well, I don't care who YOU are...it's sexist

and I'm no Hillary fan.

[theHandpuppet]

51. Ditto that.

Sums it up for me, too.

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[OzarkDem]

16. Not funny

Yep, them wimmin runnin' for President need to be taken down a peg or two.

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[slowry]

21. Oh, quit bustin' his balls. n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

18. FR material.

[MedleyMisty]

19. Are you female?

Just curious. Because yeah, that's offensive to women. It's basically saying "Go back to the kitchen and make me a sandwich, woman. You don't belong in a man's world."

[Beausoir]

20. Am I the only longtime Duer who doesn't recognise anyone who finds this funny?

Who ARE these people? Where do they come from?

[slowry]

22. Dunno, honestly, but I can't help but laugh at some of the curse-laden replies... n/t

[Danger Mouse]

23. Wtf?

Stainless steel thighs?
Who the hell would buy that? Might as well buy a big mouth billy bass while you're at it. You know, to complete the whole 'idiotic redneck' motif.

Here. The perfect accompaniment.

[terisan]

This is the sort of joke item men with tiny corkscrews enjoy. nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

26. OP is a self-reported female.

[Lex]

30. Point proven.

:P

[blondeatlast]

59. *snort*

I have a cold, now there's snot on my monitor, dammit.

:rofl:

[terisan]

34. Presumably the item sells to many men also? nt

[terisan]

24. This is the sort of joke item men with tiny corkscrews enjoy. nt

[uppityperson]

27. I think it's funny but can see how some are offended also.

I hve a dark sense of humor, am female, a secular humanist, and think it's funny. Some may not, and that's ok too, can see how some could be offended. It takes all kinds of us.

[cyberpj]

36. Thanks for posting. I've been a little taken back by some responses.

I am female. I am in my late 50s. I was involved in women's lib and worked hard for equal pay movements. I can remember days when this would have been a tribute not a slam. And tonight it just happened to make me laugh. I meant no harm. But it was indeed eye-opening to be instantly labeled and called some of the things I was called by people here.

It does take all kinds of us - and that's what I remember about progressives - not so much the instantaeous assumptions and judgements based on so little information. I was hit a lot harder with a 'with us or against us' mentality than I could ever have imagined here. Lesson learned.

[Forkboy]

57. If it makes you feel any better...

I was just judging the toy, not you. I'm not very PC at times, and humor is so subjective that we all can see different things as being funny. I tend to agree with George Carlin that pretty much anything can be funny, but it has to be done right. My own sense of humor is very dark and borders on morbid at times (gallows humor in this day and age). To me this is sexist because it seems to play into the stereotype that any strong woman is a ball buster and man-hater in a way, and I don't think that's the case in the real world very often.

I don't think anyone who likes this toy is automatically sexist however. But I don't think many guys will see this and think, "Boy, that's empowering them!". I suspect it'll play right into the negative stereotype I mentioned more often than not. :shrug:

[CRF450]

32. Right many here have no humor

Which is sad.

[terisan]

46. Well it's the Alpha Males Bush, Cheney et al who have the American male's body parts in a vise.

Sometimes when people are nervous about upseting the pecking order, they turn around and make fun of people they consider lower on the totem pole. (mixed metaphor).

Wonder what the reaction would be to a George Bush nutcracker or maybe a well-endowed George sticking it to someone.

The fact is for all the fun made of Bush's intelligence, he is at the top of the heap. America's strong man, numero uno. Heck he even has people tortured and children raped and gets away with it.

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[cali]

48. each to their own, I guess.

I find it reflective of the still pervasive sexism in our society, and thus, not funny.

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[Perry Logan]

52. Yuk it up, guys. Sounds like nervous laughter to me.

[lunatica]

53. Yup! It's the eternal battle of the sexes

The ancient relationship between the sexes can be boiled down to what's between our legs and how we use it. It's a toss up as to who is best equipped. The nut or the nutcracker.

:shrug:

[bitchkitty]

55. Damn, what an endorsement!

I would love one - but im MY image, not Hillary's!

Lighten up, some of you - if she becomes President you'll see much worse than this.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

60. When I first saw it in a store at my local mall

In Minnesota, I thought it was the funniest thing ever.

I didn't buy it (my fiance didn't want me to buy any more junk! :-(). However, my mother bought it for me a couple of weeks ago, and I'm looking forward to trying it out! Maybe I should leave it in the box and wait 30 years and then ebay it! :-)

I've seen MUCH more sexist things out there!