“every girl in the world wants to do it”

Pussycat Dolls Present” is about female empowerment, the show’s producers explained:

I think the producer might be on crack.

Lets me ask you this question…If it is “Empowerment”..why did they cancel the making of the Pussycat Doll which was supppose to be available at your local Toys R Us?…

Is their next show going to be Drag Queens USA for the gay male population?

Um, wasn’t he nominated for Dreamgirls? Or is my sarcasm meter broken today?

Is a pimp not a pimp if she’s female?

The article would bother me less if it weren’t for the straightfaced bullshit of the promoters.

The spot for the new season of American Idol’s “best of the worst” auditions where an overweight woman in a bad wig and clunky glasses murmured it to an appalled Simon.

The spot for Norbit oh, you know, that movie Eddie Murphy was nominated for an Oscar for. The one where he dresses in drag and a fat suit to tell the daring story of how disgusting fat women are.

The spot for Wild Hogs that movie with Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen and John Travolta and William H. Macy about a bunch of men who go riding motorcycles across country to prove they’re not gay (seriously, if you read the NYT review, it’s a tired rehash of some of the most canned Hollywood homophobia themes you’re likely to see). In said television spot, some overweight, balding dude is singing it during Karaoke at what appears to be a street fair to the dismay of Martin Lawrence.

Yeah, that song just reeks of empowerment.

And if dressing up like a sexual fantasy gave you power, George W. Bush would make speeches in a leatherman outfit.

Thank you SO much. I so did NOT need that image in my head. *sigh* Now I gotta go wash my brain….

The only other thing I have to add to the discussion is that I’ve heard the Pussycat Dolls. Once. (On “Dancing with the Stars”.) I had to fast forward through it — the combination of pseudo-disco (lived through it once, thanks) and pseudo-sexual gyrations made it impossible for me to watch/listen to. Gah! Empowerful, my ass. (And NOT just because the word makes my grammar bump ache.)

…said McG, the music producer and film director who is an executive producer of “Pussycat Dolls Present.”

This egotistical cobag upstanding representative of post-modern manhood got his start directing mainstream rap music videos, which are well-known for presenting positive views of women and female sexuality; from there, his big break was directing the groundbreaking feminist manifesto Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.