Tony_FLADEM (2,681 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:09 PM
Controversy over Hillary Clinton Nutcracker doll
Urban Outfitters is back in the spotlight again for their questionable product choices. This time it’s for the Hillary Clinton Nutcracker, an actual nutcracker in the shape of, you-guessed-it, Hillary Clinton. These days it seems as if Urban Outfitters’ marketing plan is largely based around generating press on derogatory items such as a “one of a kind sweatshirt featuring the Kent State University logo†with a suspicious blood-like spatter, and an array of T-shirts that perpetuate stereotypes against Native Americans, Mexicans, Jews, and Irish among others (at least the fact that no one is safe is slightly comforting?).
The Clinton Christmas stocking-stuffer is no exception to the retailer’s controversial rules. The gag gift has actually been around since at least 2007, along with its mate Corkscrew Bill Clinton, is part of the company’s online boutique that sells vintage, kitschy, one-of-a-kind items. The nutcraker, which has already sold out online and was available at $60, is absolutely sexist, sure, but it would be more insulting if it was any less boring. Calling powerful women nutcrackers reveals men’s fear of powerful women and this degrading school of thought is SO old-school! In the current cultural climate where “feminism†is the word buzzing on everyone’s lips and faux-misandry is the new irony, this nutcracker fails to become the mocking, demeaning thing that its creators probably intended it to be and instead is a sign of triumph
after which a picture of the product
https://www.yahoo.com/style/urban-outfitters-sexism-hillary-clinton-102450505443.html
shenmue (14,182 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:11 PM
1. What ****ing idiots
lunasun (5,976 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:16 PM
2. $60.??????? Wtf ?
NYC_SKP (62,839 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:19 PM
3. I guess there are a lot of sexist jokes in poor taste going on with that product.
I don't remember seeing it before, but it's easy to believe that it's been around since 2007.
LeftInTX (3,053 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:20 PM
4. Rec - for the weirdness of it all
NRaleighLiberal (36,289 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:24 PM
5. 10.50 on Amazon, though
http://www.amazon.com/CSB-Commodities-HCN1-Hillary-Nutcracker/dp/B000UB0004
MADem (105,934 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:39 PM
6. The title of the article was **Urban Outfitters' Hillary Clinton Nutcracker Is Horribly Sexist**
Why didn't you post the article title?
There's no "controversy" here--it's a shit portrayal, it's sexist, disgraceful, offensive, childish, etc.
No "controversy." Piss poor taste. Childish. WRONG. Even the referenced tweets at the end of the article say as much.
after which images of some twits
I'd like to UNREC this thread, if I could, simply for the bogus subject title.
DBoon (12,356 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:43 PM
7. Controversy?
This is clearly a misogynist attack against a popular presidential candidate.
No controversy at all.
nationalize the fed (771 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2014, 12:02 AM
8. "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought..."
after which an image of some novelty candies featuring Obumbles
Ships from and sold by The Unemployed Philosophers Guild.
DreamGypsy (2,039 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2014, 12:16 AM
9. Hillary should be flattered. Better by the dozen dozen...
...Amazon is selling them at ten cents a piece if you buy a gross (get it?).
When the bozos starting the insulting ridicule, you know you're a real threat.
I plunked down my $14.40 and am having them shipped out as holiday gifts to...
Michele Bachmann
John R. Bolton
Jeb Bush
Herman Cain
Ben Carson
Chris Christie
Ted Cruz
Lindsey Graham
Mike Huckabee
Bobby Jindal,
George Pataki
Rand Paul
Mike Pence
Rick Perry
Rob Portman
Marco Rubio
Paul Ryan
Rick Santorum
Donald Trump
Bob Corker
Mitch Daniels
Bob Ehrlich
Carly Fiorina
John Kasich
Sarah Palin
Scott Walker
Allen West
If you see Christie, Cruz, or Ryan limping out to a podium, you'll know that they tried out their gift and lost.
The list above includes only 27 recipients. so I had the remaining 117 sent to Palin...cause she's got more nuts to crack than the rest of them combined.
Prophet 451 (9,025 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2014, 12:50 AM
10. Saw that before
I remember that one doing the rounds during the 2008 primary fight.
marlakay (4,394 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2014, 12:53 AM
11. I actually have one of these
my step daughter bought it for us as a joke back in 2007 even though I was Obama supporter. I stuck it in garage. Saw it a month ago and and thought about new election.
The gag gift has actually been around since at least 2007, along with its mate Corkscrew Bill Clinton
A couple of weeks ago the wife and I spent our anniversary in Waikiki....An odd thing we noticed in the ubiquitous ABC stores....was the Obama bottle openers... :o
A couple of weeks ago the wife and I spent our anniversary in Waikiki....An odd thing we noticed in the ubiquitous ABC stores....was the Obama bottle openers... :o
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/august/hill_zps35ce666a.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/august/hill_zps35ce666a.jpg.html)
^Those proportions are all wrong !
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/august/hill_zps35ce666a.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/august/hill_zps35ce666a.jpg.html)
^Oh, so you're a leggist ?
Thanks for the pic, I was imagining a different kind of nutcracker, like the wooden soldier sort where you crack it in the gaping, toothy mouth, using the coattail as a lever...
:popcorn: