Maxim strips Bush twins…of dignity


The ever-classy lad magazine Maxim is “pranking” the Bush twins in the April issue by featuring a heavily doctored photograph of the twins in lingerie. The faces are theirs, the bodies…not so much.
Now, I hate Bush as much as the next feminist and I’m not exactly a fan of the twins either. But “pranking” Jenna and Barbara this way seems more like total humiliation than a harmless jab. (Did they take a cue from She’s All That? I wonder…)
Should the Bush twins decide to bare all themselves, I’d be fine with it; but Maxim ripping their clothes off (i.e. doctoring a bunch of photos) is just plain degrading.
And this is a minor point, but the cultural fetishism of twins and sisters has got to stop, too. Hello, it’s frigging incest!? Actually, Shari Waxman did a piece for Salon on the twin fetish via that gross Coors advertisement a while back…good stuff.
Any thoughts?

Contributed by Jess Wakeman

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