The Flap over the Librarian Action Figure (coming to a store near you soonish)
Folk in the Library Arts are in a tizzy over the upcoming release of a Librarian Action Figure (no...really...check out your newspaper or favorite on-line newsource) as it crafted in a very stereotypical way; glasses, cardigan, comfortable shoes, and a finger raised to its mouth in a 'shushing' manner.
Okay...sure...don't get me wrong here...I've seen plenty of librarians that look just like this figure* and don't really understand the problem here--it's not a big deal, is it?
Fortunately or Unfortunately, some stereotypes are based in reality.
For example:
My 'Bud the Butcher' action figure comes complete with a stained apron, bald pate, chipped cleaver and little plastic link sausages (not to mention a removable hip flask that can be filled with Bud's favorite beverages for imbibing upon betwixt his daily tasks...let your Inner Child's imagination run wild, eh?). For an extra 25 bucks you can buy his 'Chop Shop' which includes a realistically molded meat rack, grinder, and real animal intestines for making teeny tiny 'meat treats' (which can be cooked in a seperate playset, 'Bud the Butcher's Weiner Water Boiler').
Now...who doesn't know a bald alcoholic butcher?
That's right.
So it makes sense for Toy Manufacturers to design old 'Bud' in this way. Discriminating Shoppers will take note of its dead-on likeness to Butchers seen throughout the ages and happily spend the swag to make it their own.
And so it should be with the Librarian Action Figure.
T
(I have no idea what the Hell I'm talking about...naturally)
*BUT I have also seen my share of Sexy Librarians. Shit...head over to the Ramsey County Library over on Hamline and County Road B. There's one fine redheaded lady employed there that can scan my card any day of the week (which might explain my increasing number of visits there over the last few months....snort). Although the time I checked out 'Where the Red Fern Grows' along with 'Kama Sutra for Dummies' left her with a puzzled look upon her face.
Folk in the Library Arts are in a tizzy over the upcoming release of a Librarian Action Figure (no...really...check out your newspaper or favorite on-line newsource) as it crafted in a very stereotypical way; glasses, cardigan, comfortable shoes, and a finger raised to its mouth in a 'shushing' manner.
Okay...sure...don't get me wrong here...I've seen plenty of librarians that look just like this figure* and don't really understand the problem here--it's not a big deal, is it?
Fortunately or Unfortunately, some stereotypes are based in reality.
For example:
My 'Bud the Butcher' action figure comes complete with a stained apron, bald pate, chipped cleaver and little plastic link sausages (not to mention a removable hip flask that can be filled with Bud's favorite beverages for imbibing upon betwixt his daily tasks...let your Inner Child's imagination run wild, eh?). For an extra 25 bucks you can buy his 'Chop Shop' which includes a realistically molded meat rack, grinder, and real animal intestines for making teeny tiny 'meat treats' (which can be cooked in a seperate playset, 'Bud the Butcher's Weiner Water Boiler').
Now...who doesn't know a bald alcoholic butcher?
That's right.
So it makes sense for Toy Manufacturers to design old 'Bud' in this way. Discriminating Shoppers will take note of its dead-on likeness to Butchers seen throughout the ages and happily spend the swag to make it their own.
And so it should be with the Librarian Action Figure.
T
(I have no idea what the Hell I'm talking about...naturally)
*BUT I have also seen my share of Sexy Librarians. Shit...head over to the Ramsey County Library over on Hamline and County Road B. There's one fine redheaded lady employed there that can scan my card any day of the week (which might explain my increasing number of visits there over the last few months....snort). Although the time I checked out 'Where the Red Fern Grows' along with 'Kama Sutra for Dummies' left her with a puzzled look upon her face.
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