Am I a wierdo?

[bunnyjadwiga]

Wyoming Libraries have mounted a library publicity campaign which includes an image based on the MudFlap Girl:
http://www.wyominglibraries.org/images/mudflap-girl-bookmark.jpg

I LOVE the Library Mudflap Girl. However, many female (and some male) librarians are deeply offended by her. I can see their point. But I still think she's great and I want a silhouette of her on my car!

She's also being used to promote the statewide subscription to Chilton's.

I also love some of their other ads...
http://www.wyominglibraries.org/images/WYL-Horse.jpg
and the Cold Dead Fingers bumper sticker:
http://www.wyominglibraries.org/rotating/Cold-dead-fingers-bookmark.jpg
Which I consider the ultimate retort to certain pressure groups...

Oh, and an MP3 for Liam: Wicked Elk Hunt

There's a postmodernist term for taking a symbol of the dominant paradigm and twisting it to serve your own ends. I *think* this is what this is doing, but I'm a third wave feminist and NOT a postmodernist at all....?

Comments

[jacylrin.livejournal.com]

Why yes, you ARE a wierdo

;-)

[spikywheel.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the campain. As someone who grew up in WY, I think it is great. The libraries are one of my best memories there. I spent HOURS every day in ours. (but then I'm a geek)

[jacylrin.livejournal.com]

And yeah, I can see why some people would be offended. But I think it's amusing, and yeah, I'd stick one on my car. But couldn't resist my first impulse for a comment :-P

[3fgburner.livejournal.com]

People who would get offended by the literate mudflap girl, need to get a life.

On the Cold Dead Fingers, one, I could see doing a pic of a Spartan with a mess of scrolls or codices, and the captions,

"Want my books?" at the top, and
"Molon Labe" (Come and take them) on the bottom.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

I never, ever thought I would say this, but I want to move to Wyoming

[spikywheel.livejournal.com]

It's lovely there!

Tall mountains, great skiing, nice and quiet.

Now if you like to shop, we have a problem...

[spikywheel.livejournal.com]

http://spikywheel.livejournal.com/2005/02/04/

hee :)

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Having read that (grin) I'm thinking that extreme upstate NY, where I am, is a lot like Wyoming, except we don't have jackalopes. We do have fishers...and what are these golf clubs of which the joke speaks?

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

The best rendition of the "mup flap girl" I've seen is on a sticker one of my co-workers (I haven't figured out who yet) has on their truck - the girl is rendered in rainbow colors.

[montuos]

Why, yes, you are a wierdo — and so am I.

We need to make T-shirts out of the new mudflap girl!

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I have no words to describe my delight and glee -- other than "almost peed my pants."

I almost didn't see the link because I was showing Alethea the other links.

I want to go work for that marketing company.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Speaking from Wyoming:

That will probably be an effective campaign logo.

Man, do I loathe-- and am I exhausted by-- the commodification of women, whether it's determined, dogged, playful, defensive, or what-have-you.

I love this

[apolloniavoss.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't the Pennsylvania Library Association do this for us?

Thanks for sharing. The pirate Banned Books Week theme is fun this year, but mudflap girl deserves a t-shirt.

[ianraven.livejournal.com]

"Chahlie, your elk looks wickit good."
"Shut up... get me anotha bee-ah."

I echo Liam... their ad agency *rocks*.

[ren_flora.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just sent it off to my mom the reference librarian. Mudflap Girl is probably too spicy for her small-town library... but we'll see!

[northernwalker]

I want the Cold Dead Fingers one.