The Energon Pub

i_amtrunks wrote:Rules are the same everywhere, Playboys and whatnot need to be put wrapped in black plastic to obscure all the covers. Cannot say the same for the womens mags with Words that are blocked by Siebertron's filters written all over the cover.

Rules are obviously not the same as Playboys don't need to be wrapped in black plastic here. Just put out of reach of minors. (though there's a few newsagents that don't bother complying with that even)

Wow, lots of ladies in here.

I've seen some G1 episodes but I wasn't born yet

Also now I dismember my old barbie dolls
1.tear off head
2cut off all hair
3.cut head a little for brain surgery
4.keeps cutting until I see brain
5.never sees brain so keep on cutting until head is in a nice even two
6.Throw away body except for arms

lovely dismemberment huh folks Didn't mean to freak some of you out

Also what I like about TFs I dunno I think it just gives me a break from reallity and stuff. They are just really cool I never had any toys either when RID was around I don't remember hardly anything about it though

I'd never hurt my My Little Pony items from the 80's though.those could go for a bunch on ebay some day

Raesnoangel94 wrote:I've seen some G1 episodes but I wasn't born yet

Also now I dismember my old barbie dolls
1.tear off head
2cut off all hair
3.cut head a little for brain surgery
4.keeps cutting until I see brain
5.never sees brain so keep on cutting until head is in a nice even two
6.Throw away body except for arms

lovely dismemberment huh folks Didn't mean to freak some of you out

Also what I like about TFs I dunno I think it just gives me a break from reallity and stuff. They are just really cool I never had any toys either when RID was around I don't remember hardly anything about it though

I'd never hurt my My Little Pony items from the 80's though.those could go for a bunch on ebay some day

*shudder*

I just stipped my barbies naked, and stuffed them back in their barbie house, then went to play with my paperdolls who actually had clothes that werent a royal pain to get on and off. The paperdolls looked better too. Oh no we should never hurt the Ponies they may look a little bit cutesy but they at least are our friends, and not out to warp our minds like barbie was. But I loved my She-ra figures. Them and the ponies have a place of honor in my curio-cabinet.

Cosmo I dont read, I personally find it silly, but that's just me. I don't like the way magizines like that present a warped image of what women should look like. And no I dont think kids should read them.

Back when I ran the news department of the local WHSmith I got to read the cover of every womens magazine. Why women continue to buy that stuff, particularly the gossip magazines escapes me. They are shockingly bad. The worst part of it is they sell like hotcakes.

I don't buy the gossip rags, but I do read PerezHilton and a couple other sites. I just love it, but that's me. I can't really relate to Cosmo, as it's written for single women, but I still enjoy reading it. It's cheap to subscribe, so what the hell.

As for Barbies, I had a zillion of them and I loved em. Now, there were a couple that I cut their hair off, or I made them break their legs, but for the most part I took good care of my Barbies.

I had no cool toys as a very small kid, just some Barbies and a Zoid. Guess which was more fun? Even my brothers Action Man was better than Barbie, although I must admit I did used to make them kiss.

I have almost made up for the lack of childhood toys now though with all my lovly Tfs

I have never understood any of the fashion/gossip/teen magazines. I read one called Lush once years ago, as all my friends were reading it at the time, and it was basically how to become a 9 year old slut in two easy lessons. And its not the worst by far.

Thing is though, I have seen mothers encouraging their little girls to go out and read this trash, the same mothers then buy thier kids Bratz dolls and the outfits to match. I simply cannot get my head around this. It disgusts me, to be frank.

One thing I must admit to is, if I'v got a long boring train or bus ride, I sometimes buy one of those really cheap 30p mags, filled with "Shocking real life stories!" to read. Because, they are simply the best comedy imagenable, I can laugh for hours at the crap these things contain.

Tekka wrote:

Screambug wrote:No thanks to ... a whole flood of anime exploiting big-eyed little schoolgirls in undies

While I hate to admit you are somewhat right, I have always vehemently disliked the lolicon element in Anime. But every time someone blames Anime for the sexualization of today's female youth... it gets me very depressed and a little part of me dies. =/

For every gross borderline insult that comes out of Japan, there is a lot of good material, even on the school theme, that does not cross that line. I hope that you don't judge it too harshly.

But I feel I must apologize for the rest of the fandom. I'm sorry.

Don't need to aplogize Anime isn't to blame really in Japan dressing like they do in the cartoons could be seen as provocative as is She-Ra was. She wore Skimpy outfits and what could be 7 inch heels and we as kids watched it. Let us not forget the other female super heros like Wonder Woman, and cat woman. But the white skinned young blonde haired blue eyed girl was always an object of desire If you look at the walls of Pompeii's Prostitution houses, There are frescos of these type of women preforming sexual acts on the outside of the building.
I have read some Greek poetry where they tell stories of 12 year old girls putting a part of thier robes up over thier arms to show off their butts.

Anime shows what the Japanese finds attractive in women. Women who are fair skinned and beautiful. This is almost like the Geisha who japan still is seen as beautiful. (No they are not whores either.)
Remember the stuff we get here in the US is actually meant for teens and adult in Japan. Also in japan nudity isn't an issue. They see the human body as a natural thing. If you go to japan for the hot springs you go inside them naked and some are unisex. We could also stand to mention the Penis festival. A fertility festival where they parade a giant penis though out the city.
I will not get into the fundushi underwear. But If i could I would...if you catch my drift...
Getting my mind out of the gutter

Sky

I know it isn't responsible, I would be saddened if it was. But if you are a fan I'm sure you know how sad it is that a lot of the male fans get drawn into the whole loli thing.

It's such a touchy subject, and I wouldn't drag things off topic like this if it didn't concern me a lot. While things like Bratz are responsible for children dressing inappropriately, I am concerned the loli element in Anime and Manga will poison the perceptions of weak willed and weak minded men who fall under it's influence. When you get pictures like this which portray a sexualized image of a very young girl, it is cause for concern.

Now I suddenly don't want to talk about it anymore. v.v Sorry again, I will go away and take my preachy nonsense with me.

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:Getting my mind out of the gutter

Now where's the fun in doing that?

Tekka wrote:I know it isn't responsible, I would be saddened if it was. But if you are a fan I'm sure you know how sad it is that a lot of the male fans get drawn into the whole loli thing.

It's such a touchy subject, and I wouldn't drag things off topic like this if it didn't concern me a lot. While things like Bratz are responsible for children dressing inappropriately, I am concerned the loli element in Anime and Manga will poison the perceptions of weak willed and weak minded men who fall under it's influence. When you get pictures like this which portray a sexualized image of a very young girl, it is cause for concern.

Now I suddenly don't want to talk about it anymore. v.v Sorry again, I will go away and take my preachy nonsense with me.

Please keep preaching...This is an interesting topic as an anime fan...
But you gotta admit that as a westerner looking in that the Japanese women at age 18 look increadably young!
and that we are as humans programed to look at a face and want to give attention to a big eyed big headed skinny bodyied humanas. And one thing took that because of the popularity of anime and manga. its hard to tell what is legit japanese art and what is someone anywhere in the world who has good drawing skills and access to a decent copy of photoshop.

BTW you can go off topic I dont mind...

Sky

Burn wrote:

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:Getting my mind out of the gutter

Now where's the fun in doing that?

Well if I don't chances are i might be run over by Sunstreaker trying to make it on time to the clearance sale at the Armor All outlet store.

Annette

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:I am kinda new to the forums But I was kinda wondering about us ladies how many of us were little girls and were fans? Did you watch the orginal series when it aired?

Sky

*raises hand* I got to watch some of the series as a kid, and my parents bought me a few of the original figurines (I still need to find my Devastator and Computron... I loved Devastator as a kid). However, I got distracted by various other fandoms for a long time, but have come back to the Transformers fandom again I've rewatched the series and I feel like a kid again. It's fun! I think my happiest fangirl moment has been seeing the cars used for Ironhide and Bumblebee (the concept Camaro) in person. I have pics too!

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:Same here! But I wanted to ask and this goes out to every female here: Why what made the show so appealing?


Annette

Giant talking robots just seemed really kewl, and my parents liked them, so they had no problem buying me the toys. I've always had a thing for cars (which got worse when my brother was born, because then we started collecting model/toy cars and stuff). I still liked playing with dolls just as much though.

Highbeam wrote:

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:Same here! But I wanted to ask and this goes out to every female here: Why what made the show so appealing?


Annette

Giant talking robots just seemed really kewl, and my parents liked them, so they had no problem buying me the toys. I've always had a thing for cars (which got worse when my brother was born, because then we started collecting model/toy cars and stuff). I still liked playing with dolls just as much though.

Does your family still do that?

MamaKitty wrote:There is hope.

Me, my friend Ray-ray, and her liitle girl, Twinkie in Walmart looking at Halloween costumes.

Ray-ray::adoringly::"OOHH, look at the princess dresses!"

Me::sigh:: "Yeah, costumes now look a heck of a lot better than those plastic things they had when we were kids."

Twinkie- "Oh, oh, oh, Pirate! I wanna be a pirate."

Ray-ray "but dont you want to be a princess?"

Twinkie "NO! WANNA BE A PIRATE!!!" ::Grabs plastic sword and bashes at the princess dresses:: "Pirate! ARE, ARE, ARGHH!!"

Me and Ray-ray "No, no you dont hit with it like a club, slash with it."

Twinkie "Oh, ok. ARGH, ARGH" ::slash, slash::

Haha, that's awesome Why be a princess when you can be a sword-wielding pirate?

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:

Highbeam wrote:Giant talking robots just seemed really kewl, and my parents liked them, so they had no problem buying me the toys. I've always had a thing for cars (which got worse when my brother was born, because then we started collecting model/toy cars and stuff). I still liked playing with dolls just as much though.

Does your family still do that?

Buy me Transformers figurines and model cars? Yes, though I buy most of them myself. My mom did ask me to buy Jazz, Blackout (I'm still looking for him), and Bonecrusher though, hehe. Her fav movie Transformer is Ratchet :b

Do they still watch Transformers stuff with me? Yes, and they love the movie

My parents are so awesome.

Highbeam wrote:

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:

Highbeam wrote:Giant talking robots just seemed really kewl, and my parents liked them, so they had no problem buying me the toys. I've always had a thing for cars (which got worse when my brother was born, because then we started collecting model/toy cars and stuff). I still liked playing with dolls just as much though.

Does your family still do that?

Buy me Transformers figurines and model cars? Yes, though I buy most of them myself. My mom did ask me to buy Jazz, Blackout (I'm still looking for him), and Bonecrusher though, hehe. Her fav movie Transformer is Ratchet :b

Do they still watch Transformers stuff with me? Yes, and they love the movie

My parents are so awesome.

I want to be adopted to your family. Can you be my sister?

Auto Bot wrote:I want to be adopted to your family. Can you be my sister?

Sure

Highbeam wrote:

Auto Bot wrote:I want to be adopted to your family. Can you be my sister?

Sure

I want to meet my new mommy and daddy!

Im glad to see that there are some responsible parents out there (Moonbase 2). Im female and like stuff like TF and MOTU and I don't care what others think of me. But then I love MLP too (esp me unicorns). Im pretty girly but Im not a dress girl yet I love girly colours like pink and purple.

I think that Bratz is bad and no way in hell would I buy them for my kids.I do have neices that I buy for they get MLP and Winx Club stuff instead. Im also sad that a good actor like Jon Voight is in the Bratz movie. At least TF is a toyline based film with substance. I guess he had some big bills coming in.

Elita One wrote:Im glad to see that there are some responsible parents out there (Moonbase 2). Im female and like stuff like TF and MOTU and I don't care what others think of me. But then I love MLP too (esp me unicorns). Im pretty girly but Im not a dress girl yet I love girly colours like pink and purple.

I think that Bratz is bad and no way in hell would I buy them for my kids.I do have neices that I buy for they get MLP and Winx Club stuff instead. Im also sad that a good actor like Jon Voight is in the Bratz movie. At least TF is a toyline based film with substance. I guess he had some big bills coming in.

Bratz had a cartoon show on FOX one time and in one of the episodes. The girls were talking about carbs. Winx Club I do have some reservations with because the charectors poses are almost seductive.
I still feel women's rights movement slip back 9 years when thease lyrics in the theme song comes over the tv speakers:

"Look all you want but don't touch the hair!"

Sky.

KAMJIIN wrote:her half the time I can understand.

cats do things in this order:

1. stalk it
2. play with it
3. dismember it in a very brutal and gory manner
4. eat whatevers left.

you seem to be at step 2

thats what megs does to jazz

I'm not a female but I just feel normal in this thread for some reason. Oh no it's happening all over again