Having recently watched (and loved, and not just because of the always enticing Hugh Jackman) The Prestige, I originally sporfled quite heartily at this comic:
Transcript:
Inspired by the motion picture starring Christian Bale and Huge Jackman. “The Prestige” is a three part sex position.
Part 1: Partners begin in the always enjoyable and well-known doggy-style position. The couple must be facing a window.
Part 2: The partner standing behind the other trades with a friend who has been hiding in the closet. The receiving partner must not realize a change has been made.
Part 3: The partner who is no longer involved in intercourse must run outside and pop up in the window. If properly executed, the receiving partner will be astonished as if a magic trick has just occurred. Tah dah!
But then I wondered how the comic would have gone over had the kneeling participant had a less-obvious chest and shorter hair, if the original penetrating participant had sported anything other than a bald head and if the text read like this:
Inspired by the motion picture starring Christian Bale and Huge Jackman. “The Prestige” is a three part sex position.
Part 1: Partners begin in the always enjoyable and well-known doggy-style position with the woman penetrating the man from behind with a super-sexy strap-on. The couple must be facing a window.
Part 2: The woman trades with a male friend (a burly, well-hung male friend) who has been hiding in the closet. The receiving partner must not realize a change has been made. Care must be taken to match dildo size with cock size, so plan in advance, hur!
Part 3: The woman must run outside and pop up in the window. If properly executed, the receiving partner will be astonished as if a magic trick has just occurred. Tah dah!
I have a feeling the line between funny and rapey would be oh-so-much more clear and the cartoonist, if female, would be called a “man-hater.”
Or worse.
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Read more about the comic, including an apology issued by the editor here.
It is a pretty sick and twisted joke. But the way I read it, it is a satire of the type of frat-boy rapey culture people are claiming to take offense at.
I suspect that what is really offending people is that the rapey bit is snuck into step two when they are too busy waiting for the punchline to object. Then when they do get to the punchline they were suckered.
It is all in appalling taste, but that is kind of the point with dirty jokes. It is not the sort of thing I would have published in a student newspaper back in the day and I would probably have thought twice about that particular one in a rag mag. Well not unless the intention was to upset the E&W sab which was always a good idea.
Please explain how that would ever work. I guess if you think women are braindead.
Both are funny, your interpretation just more so.
I felt a twinge of horror at first, like Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? that is not funny! I laughed at the absurdity of it as if that was all I could do. It just says too much of an opinion of women that, even with awareness, still pervades our culture.
I think your depiction of the man, would probably make a few guys laughing at the first have a *blink-blink-light-bulb* moment in order to get the gist. Even then they’d pass it off as a gay joke. I appreciate their apology, but it doesn’t make me feel any better. I’m still saddened by the depiction.
ROFL!!!!!!! Way too funny!
Ok, am I sick for thinking YOUR version is kindahot…or delusional for thinking it iw potentially doable. A little bait and switch….
I have a little twisted scenareo in mind myself in the virtual sense. I have bookmarked a video clip of a very sexy (and so called ‘passsable”) trangendered preoperative girl. In the beginning it is not at all apparent (at least I think so) that she has the ~ahem~ optional equipment package.
I’ve condiered showing it to hubby, getting him to admit to being enthralled and then finishing him off as he sees the reveal…get him to accede to the sexyness of the girl despite parts he would otherwise not find attractive.
I think there is a lot of rape-themed play if not called that or acknowledged of the roots thereof. among consenting kinksters. I have seen ads posted suggesting pretty much this exact scenareo involving a blindfold. I always figured it a flight of fancy, not a real suggestion that such blind replace-ability would be workable.
at least his apology was thorough and seemed sincere. That’s a great artist who can admit that what he’s portrayed has hurt people.
You didn’t need to script out an alternative version. The rapey implication was obvious enough in the original cartoon.