
Prince's Silhouette Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
If your answer was "A former penist with his phallic guitar acting like a pornographic scumbag," then you probably were one of the 150 people who were so scarred by that fleeting image of man-guitar self-love that you wrote in to the FCC to complain.
Yesterday, The Smoking Gun published a number of the outraged complaints, but below are a few highlights—And, as with the Rorschach inkblot test, how the complainants describe what they saw in Prince's silhouette, or that Snickers commercial where two men eat a candy bar Lady And The Tramp-style reveals a lot about them.
For instance, the woman who wrote this complaint seems to think that people find bat mutilation arousing:
Or maybe she just doesn't know what "pornographic" means, which is possible. Afterall, I don't know what "former penist" means. (I have an idea, though.)
Then there's this viewer, who saw a whole lot of detail on that sheet:
Well, that's something they should learn at home, rather than out on the streets with strangers somewhere, don't you think? Also, maybe you could explain to your children exactly how you were the only person in America who saw all that.
Still, some people found Prince's obvious guitar-penis offensive for other reasons:
Not only is Prince's bigger, but it can play music. No one can compete with that.
Then there's this viewer, who saw through Snickers' candy coating straight to the phallus center:
"Simulates an erection"? Really? Whatever you saw, man.

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