Wednesday, April 14, 2010

no, really, I don't think I'm reading too much in....

This cup's imagery has to be as phallic as McDonald's could possibly get away with:

Lordy. It's like they took some phallic imagery and twisted it just enough to be inoffensive...
  • "Long" and "tall" in big type (inoffensive by way of including "cool", albeit in super tiny font)
  • Long skinny thing poking up into the air (but pyramidal, not cylindrical)
  • Two balls beneath it (but squarish, not round)
  • Liquid being splashed out (but spread out, not a single stream)
So, being who I am, I burst out laughing and took a pic of this random man's cup. Yeah.

I am probably the only one who thinks my interpretation is legit. But, I swear it is an example of our indoctrination to think of long things as penises, and that the indoctrination is so subconscious that we don't even notice when we're drawing on the tropes.

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