Cross-posted at Hoyden About Town.
This is the current cover of The Main Edge and their ground-breaking lead story on alcoholic milkshakes – “Milkshakes aren’t just for kids anymore”.
Hence, the issue becomes how to combine the delicious, youthful chill of ice cream with the more mature, sophisticated tastes of the cocktail. Essentially, we’re looking for the best of both worlds here.
So what’s the solution? Simple. Adult milkshakes!
Occasionally I give the benefit of the doubt and wonder if a particular instance of the sexualising of young girls has arisen more from a momentary lapse of judgement than deliberate depravity in the tiny little brain of a baron of commerce – it can happen when you spend too long on the slippery slope that is the pornification of female imagery, but this case is way past that. This is shameless. The young girl in a bikini straddling the milkshake? And, anyway what happened to her bikini bottoms? The whipped cream between her legs? The symbolic cherry? The phallic straws? Have I missed anything?
(Thanks Lisa M. Ray).
blue milk 
This makes me so sad. I just almost can’t even deal with this stuff anymore. It’s too much, too overwhelming, and too seemingly impossible to combat…
The bright red lipstick and that expression they have on her face–what is that? “Knowing,” sexy, come-hither….? And yet so, so clearly a very, very young girl…
I’m so revolted.
Vile. Her milkshake would bring the pedo squad to the yard, and rightly so.
I’m still stuck on what happened to her pants. What happened to her pants? It looks like she’s wearing (or has had painted on) a backwards G-string or something.
No need to give them the benefit of the doubt when you see how they present the cover on their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maine-Edge/1372457124#
Really? It’s okay to hand out copies free — I’m assuming at local businesses — but you need to cover it up for Facebook?
Have submitted it to Photoshop disasters.
Oh, I thought she was wearing a belt. And she looks 12. Seriously wrong.
Oh, ouch. That’s just wrong on so many levels.
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