Five years ago Adam Carolla wrote a book entitled, “In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks“. While he was spot on with his predictions, he openly admits nowadays that his timeline was about 45 years late.
Case in point is the 2016 Pirelli calendar. For the first time in its 50 year history, the calendar is going PC. Instead of erotic photos of exquisitely beautiful women, they’re offering something rather different this time round.
Stemming from the same notion that little boys would play with dolls and little girls would play with trains “if they weren’t socially conditioned otherwise”, the feminist assertion that heterosexual men will be equally interested to see photos of Fran Lebowitz and Yoko Ono as they would Kate Upton and Lily Aldridge is beyond preposterous. While all thoughtful men applaud the achievements of successful women, why would they shell out money to see photos of these women? After an initial flurry of purchases by feminists trying to prop up sales figures to support their world view, expect this experiment to be an abject failure.
Related: Dennis Prager has some thoughts on the subject of male vs. female sexuality, which has garnered nearly 3 million views:
D-list celebrity, Anna Lore, tried to mock Prager’s views, in a video that currently has less than 6,000 views. This from the grand intellectual whose “brilliant” tweets include: “IM ON MY PERIOD AND CRYING BC I MADE GNOCCHI AND THEYRE SO FUCKING CUTE I LOVE THEM”, “i’m not gonna say ‘sad’ but i will say ‘listening to joni mitchell scrolling through a pinterest page of haircuts’, and “I threw a spider in the trash the other day and I feel bad about it.”
Ah, so we are to take the Prager viewership over 3 million?
I used to be amused by the power the fashion gurus held over women’s self image, as the fashion gurus were predominantly Gay men.
Who drooled over 14 year old boy surrogates .
Nothing they sold showed any love for woman of any age.
Back then feminism had some valid points, yet in the long run the “career feminists” used the same guilt trip to manipulate young women.
Society is creating its own version of hell, when our children have no self worth, except for how they see themselves in the mass medias eyes.
Exploiting the self doubt of vulnerable young people has always been the way of the slinking scavenger.
Actually I used to think sunday school was the way our society introduced us to the concept of just how goofy human being are.
With no sense of the surreal how do you laugh at your own nature?
self-constraint still available http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.com/2015/01/self-constraint.html
Ahhhh…. Eye bleach, where’s the eye bleach…. I saw something on the NY Times….
And it looked like a beluga leaned against a stool….
I’m now totally perplexed as to why people think Annie Liebovitz is a great photographer. Could those photos be any more boring?
It’s actually a smart move by Pirelli.
I’m never surprised to see ‘accomplished’ women driving Camaros etc., and tire style has a big impact on the look of one’s motorcar, especially when paired with exotic wheels.
If I had to use that calendar, my favourite month would be Fran Leibowitz.
Fran is smoking hot in that pic, and drives a Checker sedan, which must look fabulous with new Pirellis.
Fran is a New York icon, and always a delight to listen to – agree or not.
A link to the 2015 calendar would help.
For perspective…
There can’t be that many lesbians buying car calendars.
Love the fat folds on some of those bovine models. They look like the love children of Lena Dunham and Jabba the Hut. What is Amy Schumer holding in her hand? It looks like a cheeseburger.
Anyone interested in this topic should read yesterday’s thread on it at Ace of Spades HQ, where the calendar gals (and the whole concept) got royally shredded in the typical NSFW Ace of Spades fashion.
that Kate sure do have some nice chest pups
“After an initial flurry of purchases by feminists trying to prop up sales figures to support their world view, expect this experiment to be an abject failure.”
Robert, you clearly know nothing. The Pirelli calendar isn’t something that’s available for purchase, mass market or otherwise. It’s a photographic object d’art produced as a gift for Pirelli’s favoured clients and corporate friends. It’s beautifully crafted, rare, and thus a perennial collector’s item. The 2016 Liebovitz version will be no exception.
This is that IT Crowd episode; walleyedness, remember?
This is that IT Crowd episode; walleyedness, remember?
I did not know that …. the Pirelli calendar was a “perennial collector’s item.” I can see it now, PBS Antiques Road Show, 2050:
Antiquities Expert: What you have here is a 2016 Pirelli Calendar. It’s in fair shape. I see you’ve scotch taped a few of the pictures where they were torn. That will reduce the value somewhat. And, unfortunately, it’s the 2016 Liebovitz version….. not one of the more popular ones due to the subject matter. I would place the value of this calendar, for insurance purposes, at 50 Yuan.
Eager Calendar owner: I’m a little disappointed. I thought it was more valuable.
Do not look at the calendar. While most images are harmless a few are disturbing. Once seen they can never be unseen. No amount of eye bleach or Kate Upton will repair the damage.
Indeed, I did later learn that the calendar is not for sale. But I know nothing?!? Oh yes, I can just see this 2016 Calendar hanging in tire and auto repair shops around the world based on the delusions that are your PC hopes & dreams for an androgenous neutered society!
I have no problem with a calendar that shows full frontal (or other) nudity of the company is selling Playboy magazine, sexy underwear, condoms or sex toys. Pirelli is a tire company. What has nudity to do with radials or mag wheels??
“But I know nothing?!? Oh yes, I can just see this 2016 Calendar hanging in tire and auto repair shops around the world…”
That, even now, you still think the calendar is something that Pirelli hands out to the average grease monkey garage selling P4’s and Scorpions — yes, you clearly know nothing of what you speak.
Other things about which you evidently know nothing:
1. the intersection of art and commerce,
2. the ambitions of photography (and yes, I’ve seen your blog),
3. beauty (see #2),
4. how to write a compelling SDA blog post (hint: less is more), and
5. the fact that the 2016 calendar was developed in part specifically to elicit exactly this response — confusion, frustration, resentment, fear — from people exactly like you.
kt, you sound like a scumbag liberal, self-appointed elite
maybe you should ask some comrade grease monkeys what they think of your low opinion of them
This is definitely a prank designed to give Pirelli a ‘gotcha moment’ later on. First of all, they’re Italians. They couldn’t give a ratfart in a whirlwind about political correctness. These are people who make $5000 tires that last nine minutes on a racetrack. Formula One is utterly and totally a man’s universe where women exist as eyecandy, and rightly so. The feminazis have been banging their heads against the FIA and Formula One for decades now to no avail, so Pirelli’s doing this just says ‘elaborate joke’ in blaring neon letters to me.
A sample of last year’s calendar is here, and very NSFW!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/pirelli-calendar-2015_n_6177344.html
“– confusion, frustration, resentment, fear -”
Sounds more like the Huffingtoomuch comments after seeing a regular tire calendar.
Their calendar guy told them how to stifle the perpetually offended femnazi PC fruity nutbar activists without disappointing tire buyers.
I pronounce that woman whatever her name is, attractive, but a world class point misser. But if you watch the video with the sound off, it’s very nice.
Prager is right of course, the only additional point I would make is that a man should know that this behavior is a little hurtful to women, and so he should be as subtle as possible about looking at other women.
I haven’t seen a Rigid Tool calendar in a while, I admit, but they used to be one of the cool things about gas stations back when they were focused on cars, and not basically convenience stores that sell gas.
“Fran is smoking hot in that pic”
And Dear Leader had 11 hole-n-ones in his first golf game ever
I’ll gladly take their infamous bullet to the head while zip tied to three others at the river side if this is what you have to “believe” in our new leftist PC world they’re rigging against us.
Funny you should say that. I was just about to mention those iconic backroom Rigid Tool calendars. Do they still make them?
I may never buy tires again.
Eww.
Thanks for the link Coach. Certainly does show a dramatic change in direction.
Whatever the reason for the change of subject matter, I think Pirelli made a mistake in 2016. Men who know and like cars buy tires, not women ….. which makes me think that this quote from the article is amusing:
“And as Ms. Zimmerman said: “Women have a disproportionately loud voice compared to their male counterparts. And for those women it is no longer socially acceptable to walk into a high-end garage that sells Pirelli tires and see a calendar with naked girls on the wall. You’d drive right out again in that Mercedes you came in with.”
The selection of Yoko Ono as a woman of accomplishment is also mind boggling.
Heh, what’s this, the new antiquing?