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[Fearless Agent Orange Find all posts View Profile Close Fearless]

Dad outraged at Slave Leia action figure at Target...

http://uproxx.com/movies/2015/07/pri...star-wars-toy/

Obviously, there should be a burning of ALL Leia figures EVERYWHERE.

...They've had 30 FUCKING YEARS to be mad about that! Oh, sure, it wasn't a problem when he was a horny teenager, but now that he has a daughter, it's suddenly okay for him to be outraged?!

FUCK. THAT.

[Robinson Guardian Of The Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Robinson]

I'd be more offended if it was slave Leia how she looks now.

[Jeff Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Jeff]

It just donned on me that I forgot to give credit to A Train. It was on his fb feed. Looks like I pissed off somebody, too.

[Agent Purple The Illustrated Man Find all posts View Profile Close Agent Purple]

I've still got my Slave Leia figure.

Just saying.

[Jeff Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Jeff]

I've still got my Slave Leia figure.

Just saying.

Honestly, I don't know if I even have one, but the slave outfit never screamed "buy me!" As far as I can remember. I know it was a sought after figure, and according to my SW Ultimate Figure Guide, there have been numerous figures made in the last 20 years with her as Jabba's slave. The fact that people are bitching about it now is plain fuckin' stupid (to echo Fearless' statement, which I totally agree with.).

My guess is that the dad has never seen SW and has subsequently been living in a bubble for most of his life.

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

...My guess is that the dad has never seen SW and has subsequently been living in a bubble for most of his life.

Actually, it still surprises me the number of people I've met who say they've never seen Star Wars or (more excusably) that they've only seen the first one or only seen parts of it on TV. I find it baffling. Something that famous, I'd see just so I get the many, many, many references made to it in pop culture and its appropriation in general culture. I mean I'm not a fan of Gone with the Wind, but I've seen it and would get references to "Frankly, Scarlet" or the burning of Atlanta. And that's a tad less likely to show up on a kid's shirt or in Lego form. Although . . .

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

Some people have too much time on their hands.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/...paign=Blogroll

[Jeff Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Jeff]

Uh Oh! Kirk Cameron Won't Be Happy About This New Softcore Gay Erotica

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000050

I've always wanted to say "go fuck a crocoduc."

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Uh Oh! Kirk Cameron Won't Be Happy About This New Softcore Gay Erotica

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000050

I've always wanted to say "go fuck a crocoduc."

Generally I find something that bizarre to be amusing just for its sheer bizarreness (even though I wouldn't actually touch it with a ten-foot pole), but I've got to say, I'm not a big fan of casting real-life people in any kind of fiction (particularly if they are still alive. Historical figures are kind of a special case sometimes) without their permission, much less something as deliberately mean-spirited as this.

One might say he deserves to be mocked, and while I can understand that point of view (even if I usually try to avoid mockery of any but the gentlest kind...admittedly I have failed at times, but I TRY), it seems to me to cross some kind of a line when one does it in a published work of fiction. I dunno.

[Jeff Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Jeff]

Generally I find something that bizarre to be amusing just for its sheer bizarreness (even though I wouldn't actually touch it with a ten-foot pole), but I've got to say, I'm not a big fan of casting real-life people in any kind of fiction (particularly if they are still alive. Historical figures are kind of a special case sometimes) without their permission, much less something as deliberately mean-spirited as this.

One might say he deserves to be mocked, and while I can understand that point of view (even if I usually try to avoid mockery of any but the gentlest kind...admittedly I have failed at times, but I TRY), it seems to me to cross some kind of a line when one does it in a published work of fiction. I dunno.

I hear ya. My first thought was "how the hell is she getting away with this legally?" Even though I'm not particularly fond of Cameron, it's still got to be some kind of defamation of character. If he doesn't already know about it, he's in for a rude surprise.
Also, wouldn't this book kind of defeat the paragraph that says "This is a work of fiction and not based on any people, events, blah blah that are real"?

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I suspect the author would be overjoyed by the publicity that being sued would generate. If he's smart Cameron will just leave it alone.

[Agent Purple The Illustrated Man Find all posts View Profile Close Agent Purple]

The best part is that King Crocoduck is holding a quantum physics book.

[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

Yo.

it would be funny if Cameron were to pen a piece as sexually perverse & derogatory as this is, using her as the subject matter, and seeing the reaction it would generate.......but since he's been in ultra choirboy mode for a few decades, I would hold my breath.




Tazer

[Jeff Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Jeff]

Yo.

it would be funny if Cameron were to pen a piece as sexually perverse & derogatory as this is, using her as the subject matter, and seeing the reaction it would generate.......but since he's been in ultra choirboy mode for a few decades, I would hold my breath.




Tazer

I wouldn't mind seeing a "where are they now?" Show on the rest of the cast for Growing Pains. That would be interesting.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker Moisture Farmer Find all posts View Profile Close Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

I used to love that show as a kid. If they did a where are they now episode, I'd watch it too.