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[sam_gamgee]

I don't understand why a car magazine feels the need to put a model in a sexy outfit and a sexy pose on the cover of their magazine along with a car.

I feel like they're underestimating their audience by doing that. If you're buying a magazine because of the sexy women, something's wrong, IMO.

Also? Have they never heard of car porn? They can make it work with just cars in the picture.



(ETA: icon changed on mashfanficchick's prompting that this was a better icon for this post. And she's right.)

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[sam-gamgee.livejournal.com]

Yes, but probably not in the way most of us in fandom think of it.

Very true. But I didn't mean it that way either. I meant something more like this/in this vein (http://www.supercars.dk/cars/supercars/car-wallpapers-cars.jpg).


And you're very right about the icon - it's been change. :-P

[mashfanficchick.livejournal.com]

No, I know. I was thinking of it as in "Oh my God, that CAR! *drools*" (see icon, even though it's not perfect) But yeah: coming from both Sentinel and Starsky & Hutch fandom, cars are themselves sexual beings...especially in S&H, where they're occasionally anthropomorphized WAY past Jim's "Sweetheart"!

[sam-gamgee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've realized that in a lot of shows I watch, the characters' vehicles are characters too. Which amuses me to no end. (As well as the fact that Dodge Challengers are the "villians" and Dodge Chargers are the "heroes".)