And because the post below is such a major bummer to leave at the top, here’s a quick one for fun discussion purposes.  This Vanity Fair picture, funny or not?

(Hat tip.)  I’m inclined to say no.  I prefer jokes that send up sexist stereotypes, like when Liz Lemon makes a stupid mom joke and high fives herself.  This joke, it seems to me, works off the idea that it’s stupid to want to put men in an objectified position, ‘cause duh, that’s for ladies!  The bodysuits just makes it more insulting.  Of course, there’s not a whole lot I suppose you could do to use a little gender-reversal to mock the original cover.  If you challenged the strict gender stratification where women are for shutting up and being hot and men are for staying clothed and looking, and say, put lean, naked men in a picture to be gazed at by a famous lesbian, you’d have made the point, but it wouldn’t be funny, because there’s not gotcha there.  And then a lot of people would be uncomfortable, because you revealed the lie of gender essentialism. But this isn’t funny, either.

With one exception, that is.  The look on Paul Rudd’s face is awesome.  That made me laugh.