Gotta Love The Title Of This Study
Well, the headline, anyway: "Email from Nancy Nutsucker"
The rest of it (snore!) is here:
Representation and gendered address in online pornographySusanna Paasonen
University of JyväskyläThis article addresses the representational conventions and gendered forms of address in online pornography through analysis of 366 unsolicited email (spam) messages advertising porn websites. Combining content description with close reading, it considers the terminology, imagery, narrative elements and points of view employed in advertising commercial heterosexual pornography. The spam advertisements create excessive displays of gender difference. It seems that limited female agency is central, especially in messages advertising reality sites structured by gendered relations of control. Arguing that such displays of control should not be automatically translated as displays of power, this article investigates the representational logic of mainstream pornography as one based on binary differences, juxtapositions and easily recognizable types.
Yeah, whatever. I actually just started collecting funny spam lines. A few recent favorites:
•Eat a pill and your dick will become a hill.
•turn your trouser mouse into a monster schlong.
Your faves?
My recent favorite, though not from an actual spam mail:
"Hello, my name is Spam. I couldn't find you on the Internet, so I stopped by to ask you whether you might need a penis enlargement."
Seen a couple of weeks ago in a (German) cartoon which I can't find on the Internet either, so I'll have to explain the situation a bit: The guy who says this is a salesman at a front door that was just opened by an embarrassed woman. (If I remember correctly, she was even wearing curlers, but that might just be my vivid imagination...)
Rainer at March 18, 2008 4:31 AM
Hmmm... a quick trip through the old gmail spam filter yields:
Live for the moment, enjoy sex with a larger dik today
Want a weapon the size of a rocket in your pants? Here is the answer.
Make every night a hot, steamy night of action with your new 10 inch manhood.
justin case at March 18, 2008 7:21 AM
WTF is a gendered form of address? Mr. vs Mrs. vs. MS?
You know, reading shite like that makes me almost glad I never went to college. All that money spent and researchers/soft sciences(gag)cannot manage to write a sentence that is informative AND entertaining? Shoot I would settle for writing that is not so pretentious and mind-numbing. Oh wait nowwww I get it. They are trying to pretend they are smarter than they are and that the dumb nitpicky topic they have chosen is relelvant and interesting. sigh. dumbasses.
Hahah, loved the nancy nutsucker.
rsj at March 18, 2008 7:25 AM
This kind of book-lernin' ain't happening here. It's at a university in Finland (which is a country in the northern part of Europe, which is across the ocean going in the direction of France).
Maybe this lady's first language isn't English?
Those academics just think they're so much smarter than us!
Chrissy at March 18, 2008 8:33 AM
No, Chrissy, English-speaking academics in the social sciences write that way too. My take: The humanities has transformed from a serious field of study into a secret guild. They use language not to describe, but to obscure. Writing like that is how one prove's one's membership in the guild. It's their version of the secret handshake.
The only places left in the academy where reason still prevails are in the physical sciences, engineering, buisness/finance/accounting, and (to an extent) medicine.
Cousin Dave at March 18, 2008 10:01 AM
Women's favs I have heard about:
"Shrink that hole, he'll like it more!"
"Shave it baby..he wishes you were younger!"
(Note: anyone who thinks the subject lines about penis size are funny, but are grossed out by the above and think they are uncalled for, doesn't know what equality is)
Norman L. at March 18, 2008 3:04 PM
6 hours later and no-one complained yet. Maybe it's not as radical as I thought it was.
Norman L at March 18, 2008 8:31 PM
"Did you hear how big he was?!"
How bad are your marketing skills when you lead with a question that can be answered "no"?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 19, 2008 12:03 AM
Favorite spam line I ever received:
"Taste the vitality with enlarge penis patch."
...you can't make this stuff up!
doctrine at March 19, 2008 8:03 PM
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