She’s a classic example of how the media controls and manipulates the thoughts of the commoner.

Making a generic being into something it isn’t through photoshop and makeup.

I use creatures like her as part of a template for villains in my d&d campaign. The players get a recognizable face to associate their enemy with, the visual adds a lot of take-away oomph to what would (in her specific case) just be a another bland wizardess. Yup, my first post here is intentionally chockful of geekiness as a declaration of persona-intent. Expect more in the future. Also subtle female sexism.

I don’t know what it is, maybe the bacardi, but this post and it’s comments have fired up my reply to the point of rapid sporadic actuality. And THAT is a something. Wonkobox says it well. And storminator sums it up like a man who should be paid $50 a month from reader’s digest.