Comments on: LOVE/HATE: the gender equality edition

By: Yady

Yady — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:31:55 +0000

I don’t see anything wrong with it. If the figures were a little neater I would buy it and use it for our cake topper!

By: m Andrea

m Andrea — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:40:20 +0000

For thousands of years western men did not allow women to have a job outside the home or to own property, so a female’s only meal ticket depended upon trapping a man into marriage. Trust men to control the rules and then make fun of women for playing by those rules. So the narrative became “women were evil man-trappers and men were the noble heros who rescued women from poverty”.

Now the narrative is “anyone who points out just how bad men suck must be evil” because — get this — universal patterns of abuse and constant victim-blaming are clearly irrelevant and we should only measure the amount of harm men do to women by measuring the amount of nice guys. Which is why everyone says “but my dood isn’t like that!” whenever the subject is man-suckage; and thus concludes our lesson for today.

By: eve

eve — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:12:45 +0000

I think it´s funny and besides no one is forced to get marry, i got to see one of those in my cousin wedding and it was because she thought she was never going to get married, it was not in her plans and she was like 30 somenthing so she prefer just living together and her boyfriend did want to get married so after talking to her for some time she said yes.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:43:08 +0000

delphine: Just click the pic to be taken to the page where you can buy the topper from the Archie McPhee catalog!

By: delphine

delphine — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:50:17 +0000

Hi !!

Where can We find these cake toppers? What’s the brand??

Thank you

By: blablover5

blablover5 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:23:36 +0000

I actually just saw one called Runaway bride, where the groom is standing on her dress while she’s trying to make a break for it.

And it was a real cake topper.

By: KateC

KateC — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:13:48 +0000

I think it would be funny but anyone that really didn’t know you well enough to know that you were just having joke might think the woman/man is a little scary.

By: Michigal

Michigal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:41:38 +0000

It’s certainly a new spin on cake toppers that’s for sure. Although I’d hate to see it on a wedding cake, it could be fun at the bride’s last night out party!

By: daisyj

daisyj — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:39:33 +0000

Considering that Archie McPhee is the interbunny’s leading retailer of gag items (spark-spitting wind-up nuns, anyone?), I am going to guess that this item is not really intended to be put on a cake; it might actually be a joke on those woman-catching-a-man toppers. Still, that’s not to say some humor-impaired couple won’t run with it. . .

By: Twistie

Twistie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:52:16 +0000

These creep me out either way, but the fact that there are still places in the world where women are sometimes literally forced into marriages makes this even worse.

Still, either way, there’s no excuse. Just. Not. Funny.