[random] Did you know Edward Cullen is like a sexual version of oreo cheesecake?

[unjapanologist]

Now you do!

In Ogi Ogas' proper academese, "Cullen consists of several female sexual “superstimuli” combined into one erotic concoction, like a sexual version of Oreo cheesecake." 

Yeah, apparently lots of people hear that, think it sounds like it might make sense, and still present this guy as a serious researcher. For those who don't remember Mr. Ogas and his surveyfail exploits, here's a primer. Commemorative icon:

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[ithiliana]

YAY! Finally got organized enough to come gack and post about the icon!

OREO CHEESECAKE!

(I love Oreos, not so much cheesecake, which may be why I don't like Edward Cullen....)

THANK YOU!

[unjapanologist]

I love Oreos, not so much cheesecake, which may be why I don't like Edward Cullen....

Mutations play an important role in evolution. I'm not too well-versed in evolutionary psychology, but maybe your brain just mutated that way and you are actually the psychological foremother of a non-Edward-Cullen-liking subspecies whose cranial contents will eventually replace the currently dominant romance novel-only female brain? *been reading about Darwin*

[ithiliana]

I also remembered while rereading some of the earlier stuff that Ogi was talking about "unified fabric of human desire," and this icon came out of it!

[unjapanologist]

I'd forgotten that was him :D

[ithiliana]

I had too--it was one of the most hilarious moments.

Unified fabric of human desire....ahahahahahah!~

Oreo cheesecake!

[unjapanologist]

Oreo cheesecake!

I've been shouting it in chat at random intervals for the past week. It's incredible conversation fuel.

[ithiliana]

I imagine so.

Now I am wondering what happens if one spills their Oreo Cheesecake on their Unified Fabric of Human Desire--how does one get the spots out?

[unjapanologist]

I imagine their next batch of research will reveal that the female brain is hardwired to figure out tricky laundry issues, so no worries. The article about surveyfail in Time just got slashdotted, by the way, so I suppose we'll be hearing much more about it for a while still (though fortunately, the top comment at Slashdot is one that links to LJ and JF and tears the whole thing down. Not that many other commenters seem to be listening).

[ithiliana]

I am now thinking snarky thoughts about the publicity that BWS thoughts got (in part through their publisher, yes, but also because of the authors' abilities to get PR) compared to Jessica Yee's book on the problems with academic feminism......

[ithiliana]

Erm BWS should have been BW for Billion Wicked...

[unjapanologist]

The cover of Jessica Yee's book has the wrong kind of naked lady on it, perhaps. In all seriousness, how many people (academics included) even know that there's such a thing as academic feminism, let alone that it has problems?

[ithiliana]

I know--I know--it's not the hot'n'sexy porno essentialism that so often sells well (am remembering Woolf's great summary of all the books written about Women by men she finds in the library). It's just...the publicity this crappy book is getting is so frustrating to see.

[unjapanologist]

Yeah. It's incredibly depressing to see just how ridiculously uncritical mainstream reporting is. When I think of how many years I read Time and assumed that most of the stuff in there was probably correct, my brain starts to feel unclean.

Maybe we can't tell Time what to write, but we can write Amazon reviews. *rolls up sleeves*

[ithiliana]

A random oreo note: I've really been horrified by all the variants that they've done on Oreos (ditto Hersey's kisses). I mean, as far as I'm concerned, there's the Platonic Ideal: the Oreo! The Kiss!

Why keep messing around with them!

/random lament of old fogeyhood

[unjapanologist]

Where I'm from, nobody knows Oreos and cheesecake is considered an abomination. I kept hearing/reading about Oreos in US media and wondering what they were, and then they started appearing in the big supermarkets. In tiny little packets. They were nice, but kind of disappointing after all the build-up ;)

Hersey's kisses... more exotic foodstuff.

[ithiliana]

I suspect that part of my enjoyment is childhood mythology--might be fun to see when they first appeared on the market, but there was a lot of advertising that went into creating that mythology!