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Posted by: Fredo at May 12, 2010 4:40 PM
"Don't blame Danica."
Why not? I mean, honestly - please don't write a book about girls and math and confidence and then chew your goddamned pinky in Maxim.
Posted by: samantha t at May 12, 2010 4:55 PM
We do a pretty good job in our culture of convincing girls that if they're smart, no one will find them sexy. Danica's doing a pretty good job of blowing that bullshit out of the water.
Are we supposed to fault her for that?
Look, if there are teenage boys out there right now furiously spanking it to a published mathematician, that can only bode well for their future choices in women.
Posted by: ZombieScientist at May 12, 2010 5:09 PM
Wow, I didn't realize that Maxim's target demographic knew who Wendy Cooper was. I still think she looks a little like Eliza Dushku's older sister.
Posted by: mtgcolorpie at May 12, 2010 5:15 PM
Too bad she's too young to be in "More".
I'm just concerned about that goddamn outfit. Tack-Eee.
Posted by: Jay at May 12, 2010 5:15 PM
How long ago was that photo taken? Danica's all knocked-up now. Like, 4 months along or something. (Again, I'll ask you to not mock me for reading baby blogs.)
Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at May 12, 2010 5:21 PM
I had to do a quick scrolldown. Don't want my bosses thinking I'm looking at porn.
I watched a few eps of the Sarah Silverman show and it was only funny in parts. The gay couple was cute, but the gross factor on the series was too high. When Sarah licked her dog's asshole, I was thinking "Ok...I ain't watching this every week."
Posted by: Brie at May 12, 2010 5:26 PM
ZombieScientist: Do you think any guy whacking it to Danica in her underwear actually gives a shit that she's intelligent?
Posted by: Todd at May 12, 2010 5:29 PM
"Winnie Cooper, stop doing ho shit and go do your math problems!"
Posted by: Jay at May 12, 2010 5:39 PM
Wow, I didn't realize that Maxim's target demographic knew who Wendy Cooper was.
Posted by: mtgcolorpie at May 12, 2010 5:15 PM
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I don't think you know who she is either.
Posted by: , at May 12, 2010 5:39 PM
I do, Todd, though that may be irrelevant since I'm not whacking it right now. I'll report back later on whether or not I care in the moment.
Either way, I'm hoping it seeps through subliminally.
Posted by: ZombieScientist at May 12, 2010 5:40 PM
don't write a book about girls and math and confidence and then chew your goddamned pinky in Maxim.
So math geek girls can't also be Maxim pinups?
Posted by: Fredo at May 12, 2010 5:50 PM
Why do the sitcoms I genuinely like always get cancelled? Why? The Sarah Silverman Show was slapstick freakout comedy with horror/sci-fi subplots and a great ensemble cast of comedians you don't know by name but recognize, a cute dog, and Sarah's sister. The season premiere was ended in a spot on recreation of the climactic action sequence of Drag Me to Hell, which was then followed up by a great take on Freaky Friday and a killer baby robot subplot. Not to mention Sarah's horrifying children's TV series within the TV show and the excellent gay marriage episode.
I don't know: maybe if Comedy Central actually advertised the show and had a lead in that wasn't Dmitri Martin, people would have watched. That's a show that didn't even deserve a pilot, let alone a multi-season run. I was hoping against hope when LOGO advertised the new season a whole month before Comedy Central did that LOGO was producing the show now. It's not too late...
Posted by: Robert at May 12, 2010 6:18 PM
Danica is obviously proving the formula that the area of a radiused cone truncated by a curved plane is related to the tangent plane of a series of complex and variable shapes connected by the smallest possible common area. See, math can be fun. After all Dustin uses RR's abs as an abacus. I'd have prefered Esquire though. It's trashy AND pretentious.
Posted by: Mrcreosote at May 12, 2010 6:32 PM
I for one am not sad to see the Sarah Silverman show go at all. And I actually kind of like Sarah Silverman. In her stand up though, her whole innocent bigot shtick comes off as a joke. In the show it plays out as just being a racist. Which Of course some people can see through. I think the majority of people who got into that show got into it because it was a hot chick making jokes about farts and black people. I will miss seeing Brian Posehn every now and then before I changed the channel though.
Posted by: Blank at May 12, 2010 6:33 PM
ZombieScientist: Do you think any guy whacking it to Danica in her underwear actually gives a shit that she's intelligent?
Well I didn't...but if it makes any difference it not only makes her hotter, I'm now whacking it twice as fast.
Posted by: DeistBrawler at May 12, 2010 7:28 PM
To add:
Her photos for Stuff magazine are WAYYYY better.
Posted by: DeistBrawler at May 12, 2010 7:30 PM
Has Wednesday become Whacking Day?
Posted by: peanut at May 12, 2010 8:11 PM
I say go Wendy, but man those are some HORRIBLE photos. They look all skeevy and amateur-pornish and eugh it's just making me feel sad for her. They look really cheap and terrible.
Posted by: figgy at May 13, 2010 12:06 AM
Has Wednesday become Whacking Day?
If not, it SHOULD!
No Whining Wednesday should be retired in favor of Whacking Wednesday. I suspect that there will be less whining if there is more whacking anyway, so win-win!
Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at May 13, 2010 2:46 AM
My question is how, as males, are we supposed to go about celebrating or honoring Whacking Wednesday. Because let's be honest, we're guys, wrestling the trouser tube is something we generally do on the days that end in "y."
I'm just saying I want it to be special is all. Should I maybe dim the lights? Take a shower first? Buy me dinner?
Posted by: Roaddog at May 13, 2010 5:03 AM
Roaddog, just pull something extra special out of the spank bank, or spring for better porn on that day.
Figgy, you just described a Maxim photo spread as "cheap and terrible." This is so redundant it may collapse under its own weight into a black hole of bad spank photos.
To report back on preliminary experimental results, I found focusing on raw intelligence not to necessarily expedite matters, but putting literary airs on her was pleasantly spicy. There may have also been props that included a blackboard, a saucy librarian outfit, and creative use of honor cords.
Posted by: ZombieScientist at May 13, 2010 10:54 AM
"So math geek girls can't also be Maxim pinups?"
Well, apparently they can. Math geeks can do whatever they want, so far as I'm concerned. I'm just pointing out what I see as hypocrisy. I don't want to make a federal case about it, but I think it's bullshit to empower and encourage young girls to challenge themselves intellectually and then pose in Maxim.
"We do a pretty good job in our culture of convincing girls that if they're smart, no one will find them sexy. Danica's doing a pretty good job of blowing that bullshit out of the water."
This is a tired-ass justification, sorry. What we do a pretty good job of in our culture is valuing girls and women solely for their appearance. Is it really that radical to say "Hey, I'm a math nerd AND I have nice tits. Paging Gloria Steinem!"
Posted by: samantha t at May 13, 2010 11:52 AM
It's not radical, just exceptionally rare.
Partially because we still condition boys to think smart women are uppity, pretentious, unattractive bitches. This, in turn, conditions girls to work so hard at acting not-smart that it becomes fact.
I've lost track of how many women I know who work really, really hard to pretend they're not all that bright. It's depressing.
Maybe we need to start leveraging sex for the cause of social change. It's not like sex is going anywhere. There have been at least two waves of feminism that tried to marginalize or ignore it. Doesn't work. It's like trying to marginalize breathing.
Posted by: ZombieScientist at May 13, 2010 12:50 PM
This doesn't really come off as "Wow, a smart sophisticated woman can also be sexy!"
It reads more like "Whoa, I guess this whore can do math."
Sorry Danica!
Posted by: becks at May 13, 2010 7:16 PM
Don't blame Danica. Fact is Maxim has replaced Playboy as the go-to lads' magazine in the US. She could have gone with Vanity Fair or something that men 18-49 wouldn't have seen, but then...what's the point?
And Sarah Silverman is hot and raunchy, but she's only good in small doses. Like cayenne pepper or NO2. Too much kills anything.