{"id":27667,"date":"2012-04-30T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/contorting-a-dead-sexy-horse.html"},"modified":"2012-04-30T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:22:07","slug":"contorting-a-dead-sexy-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/contorting-a-dead-sexy-horse.html","title":{"rendered":"Contorting a dead, sexy horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know, the whole &quot;women&#39;s poses for comic books are completely unrealistic and over-sexed and so contorted as to defy belief&quot; thing is <i>so<\/i> last month.  But I ended up on a chain of articles, all of which were funny, outrageous, sad, and funny (again) in their own way that I had to share. Some of them come complete with Real People trying to strike those poses to show off how silly, stupid, and\/or anatomically incorrect they are.<\/p>\n<p>These articles mostly talk about fantasy book covers, but it&#39;s almost entirely the same conversation.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2012\/01\/striking-a-pose\/\" >http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2012\/01\/striking-a-pose\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2012\/04\/posing-like-a-man\/\" >http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2012\/04\/posing-like-a-man\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/genrereviews.livejournal.com\/371367.html\" >http:\/\/genrereviews.livejournal.com\/371367.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Movie posters:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/hey-everyone-stop-taking-this-picture-no-i-mean-it\" >http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/hey-everyone-stop-taking-this-picture-no-i-mean-it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comic books:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/justsayins.tumblr.com\/post\/14957660366\/this-needs-to-stop-and-let-me-tell-you-why\" >http:\/\/justsayins.tumblr.com\/post\/14957660366\/this-needs-to-stop-and-let-me-tell-you-why<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/justsayins.tumblr.com\/post\/15063906958\/its-funny\" >http:\/\/justsayins.tumblr.com\/post\/15063906958\/its-funny<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So skip it if you&#39;re tired of the subject, but if not, some good stuff here.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi264.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fii165%2Fgenrereviews%2Fmy%2520poor%2520spine%2Fgratuitousbuttshot.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/genrereviews.livejournal.com\/371367.html'>Men&#39;s Versus Women&#39;s Poses<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnd here it is! The very long and image-heavy post nobody asked for, but that&#39;s what you get today. But look, it took me forever to put together and hurt my back and I did it all for you, so you shoul&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MR29ggzTCFD' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know, the whole &quot;women&#39;s poses for comic books are completely unrealistic and over-sexed and so contorted as to defy belief&quot; thing is so last month. But I ended up on a chain of articles, all of which were funny, outrageous, sad, and funny (again) in their own way that I had to share. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/contorting-a-dead-sexy-horse.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Contorting a dead, sexy horse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/gorilla-poses-in-the-mist.html","url_meta":{"origin":27667,"position":0},"title":"Gorilla Poses\u00a0in the Mist","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jan-13 11:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Key quotation from a protester: \"Yoga poses are representative of Hindu deities and Hindu stories about the actions and interactions of those deities with humans. 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