In recent posts, I’ve been talking about animals and other objects depicted in salt and pepper shakers as wearing various items of human clothing. This time, I’m going to look at a set that depicts a more or less human-like being who isn’t wearing quite enough clothing. I begin with the actual shakers: Readers whoContinue reading “Shake Your Booty”
Category Archives: Breasts
Perfectly Armless
Some months ago, I did a series of posts about shaker sets that represent women with various limbs, etc., missing. I described this set: And this set: But I somehow managed to forget about this set: Here we have two more versions of what appears to be a certain sort of masculine ideal of womanhood:Continue reading “Perfectly Armless”
African American Pancake Pushers
In previous posts, back in March, I tried to come to grips with my responses to the sets of shakers in my collection that depict Native North Americans. I began by saying of one pair that “It’s that rendering of the toxic as perfectly harmless that most fascinates me about them.” Later, I described aContinue reading “African American Pancake Pushers”
More Adult Indigenes
Unlike the sets of salt-and-pepper shakers I’ve been describing in my last five entries, this set does not appear to represent children, and is not particularly cute. The binary opposites are preserved, as they almost always are in the salt-and-pepper world, and it’s still a male and female couple. But the male is aContinue reading “More Adult Indigenes”
The Spice of Life
I’ve just noticed that the angles from which I took the pictures in my last post didn’t show the words apparently tattooed along the amputated woman’s side: So this shaker set is not just a dehumanizing objectification of female body parts, it seems: it’s also a celebration of that objectification as a credo to live by:Continue reading “The Spice of Life”
Body Parts Sold Separately Together
Novelty salt and pepper shakers tend to be cute–that is, they represent the objects and animals and people they depict as harmless and adorable, as innocently jolly residents or cheerful artefacts of a blissfully utopian world where the sun always seems to be shining and there is no pain and no angst and no taxes. Continue reading “Body Parts Sold Separately Together”
Perry Nodelman 