1813 What's wrong with this picture?
Lucy Liu is sitting in a librarian's lap. Did the ad people think there are no male librarians who might have enjoyed a movie star smooch in the stacks? Did they think all male librarians are gay? (Many are, and they are proud of it, but many are not.)
And there are other problems with this picture. Look at that styrofoam cup on a stack of books. And Lucy's using a pile of books, on the floor, for her foot stool. Shame! Shame! Lucy's had implants and the poor librarian is flat chested. Lucy's got a cool dress and probably Manolo Blahnik shoes, and our librarian figure has a gray sweater, brown jeans and huge clunky shoes that look like they're for dancing at the tulip festival in Michigan. The condition of the shelves is a mess, all jumbled and out of order, despite the "Please ask for assistance" sign. The tile floors are looking pretty bad--like they used a real library for this shot and shelving seems to be at right angles. Lucy's wearing make-up and the librarian, well, looks like a librarian.
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5 comments:
Lucy probably has implants....she had breast cancer in her early twenties. Geez that could have been me, if I was a lesbian.
The librarian is cuter :)
And we all know, if it is a well paid job, it goes to a non-librarian (i.e., the Librarian of Congress has NEVER been a librarian). She's probably a model. Unions you know. I'm guessing it was the ugliest outfit she ever had to model. Up close, you can tell the shoes and jeans are new, and anyone who works in the stacks knows to wear old clothes.
Actually, I've known quite a few librarians that look like the one in the picture, and have on occasion dressed similarly. I don't think that there is anything wrong with the way she is dressed, and I never thought I looked frumpy (I wouldn't have left the house if I did). At least she isn't an "old" librarian, as we are so frequently portrayed in the media.
If brown jeans, gray sweater and clunky shoes isn't frumpy, I don't know what is! "Frumpy" has to redefine itself each generation. It's not a cotton housedress and slippers anymore--that was for grandma.
Interesting that you'd rather be gray and brown than old. Touch of ageism?
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