I just took this photo outside my kids’ school at pick-up because I was so amazed at the awesomeness of taking the iconic figure of the Mudflap Girl and turning her into an average-sized, trucker-capped dude in a loungey pose.
Full disclosure, I used to work at a company called Lisa Kline that actually has the traditional Mudflap Girl as its logo… I even had a gold mudflap girl necklace that was given to me by the store’s owner, so I have a certain fondness for what is generally seen as a sexist symbol.
So I have to ask—guys, what do you think of the Mudflap Guy? It’s an interesting experiment in objectification.. Is it funny, empowering, offensive? Something else?
How about the original Mudflap Girl?
YESSSSSSS!!!! PRICELESSSSSS!!!!! You see, guys get the mudflap girls cuz it’s the only girls that look like that which will ever be on or in their trucks….HAAAAAAA
As a guy who fits that silhouette, i am not offended. Too bad there is not a beer can in his hand or up on the belly. Also, I would like to see the traditional chick in a bikini silhouette inverted into a 69 or just even with her face in the dude’s crotch. Even her up on a stripper pole in front of him would suffice.
Dude, I want one of those decals. Y’all can argue about the social messages till you are blue in the face, but I think it’s new and clever. Naked lady silhouettes on mudflaps don’t do much for me sexually or otherwise but at least this one’s good for a laugh! Plus, my girlfriend would either love or hate it and either way suits me just fine hahaha
I think the guy’s silhouette is sexy!
My mind isn’t brainwashed by what the media think’s, I should like.
I love the earthy, comforting shape and disagree with the mean remarks over the shape not being sexy.
In my experience these type of men can take all, I put on the table and have the stamina to deal with it.
Unfortunately more and more men are shrimpy with unmanly, bitchy attitudes, having no stamina whatsoever and who seem to “think” their six pack is all they need to bring to the table?!?
Yeah, you like chubby type, but no need to bash men with ” six packs “. Not all men with six packs have bitchy attitude and have no stamina. And no, we don’t work out every day ( we have other hobbies and passion and work to do ) and we dont look at mirror every hours, and certainly we don’t love our body more then we love our partner bodies. I’m tired of all these generalization about athletic, fit, and muscular men coming from women. If you like certain body type of men, no need to bash other men… Read more »
You misread my post. I was complaining over the growing number of shrimpy guys with bitchy attitudes who happen to think their six pack is enough. That is not equal to saying: all men with six packs are all like….. etc etc I also do not see how shrimpy get’s translated by you to fit and muscular?!? Grin I didn’t even knew that atlethic guys……..okay let’s not finish that sentence Lol ….but never saw those as having bitchy attitudes…… Nevertheless interesting to know the misconceptions you have to deal with because of your body shape. And nice to know that… Read more »
I have to ask, why do you see the original as objectification? Why do you see the nude female as an object, instead of a visual representation of a nude female HUMAN? I really really struggle to understand people’s minds who see them as objects, quite frankly I find it utterly disgusting. And in the comments a woman has once against proven to me some of the most disgusting views I’ve ever seen of women have been from other women. To those ladies, why do you see women as objects? Why can’t you see them as human beings? The way… Read more »
The “mother, father, daughter, son, dog” silohuettes don’t have nipples and unrealistic proportions and submissive body posture in them. Stop acting all fake-appalled, everyone knows that the mudflap girls are sexist chauvinistic drivel. grow up!
I actually seem to recall seeing a “real woman” type of mudflap girl before. IIRC, it’s not all that different from the guy one above except probably a bit less heavy and obviously female. Or I might just be imagining things, I’m not sure. I don’t really notice mudflap girls anyway, but I would say that it’s kind of nice to see someone poking fun at them in this way. What annoys me most on cars now are the fake testicles that seem to be everywhere anymore. It might not bother me so much but for the fact that they… Read more »
actually, i know the guy who modelled for that decal. he, like most people who buy these decals, is a gay bear.
I’ll bet someone finds the mudflap guy sexy.
yeah, gay men who are looking for a ‘daddy’
The only male body type women can sexualize and objectify is the tall broad fit athletic guy .
At this point, the wittiest cars in America are the ones whose rear bumpers/trunks/mudflaps have been left unadorned. I shriek in laughter when I see a car in the parking lot without a political slogan, an announcement of children’s honors, a warning that a baby is on board (when, in fact, the baby is with grandmother), a photo of a sexy thing, a wind chime in the Darwin vs Jesus argument, etc. To really split my side with your superior wit and political nuance, leave a car unpurchased on a dealer’s lot. I swear, when you do that, I lose… Read more »
I like it much more than the father-mother-child-child-child-child-child-child-dog-cat-kitten and maybe a duck ones. At least it shows a sense of a mature male of the species, either a bachelor or divorced and worn out from it, old guy taking it easy.
Its just funny.
its not empowering because the image holds zero sexual value to women.
Fat men are a two-penny and far from being sexual, their bodies are considered repulsive by women.
Fat women can be considered attractive though. In fact many men actually prefer fat women over skinny ones. There is this whole BBW / chubby chaser phenomenon going on these days.
I think it’s hilarious! Nothing wrong with it, or the original for that matter.
Yeah its a joke. But I wonder how fat women would feel if they make mudflap girls with fat bellies, flabby arms and legs. I wonder if they would laugh at them
I’d take it in a minute! I’d rather see men portraying themselves as being turned on by real women than x-rated Barbie dolls. The regular mudflap girls sends the message, “I love you honey, but this is what I *really* want.”
Don’t you dare refer to them as “x-rated barbie dolls” and not real women. Again, the most disgusting comments I’ve ever read about women have come FROM WOMEN, this is one of them. You completely ignore those women as REAL WOMEN, congraluations on objectifying them more than men do. I have friends who are 50kg, I have models as friends, women who are thin, petite, THEY ARE REAL WOMEN.
Disgusting, ugh.
I totally agree with you Janet.
I am going to put it in these terms because I tend to think that women are sensitive about how their bodies are represented and men are more sensitive to being taken for granted because of money.
What if women started putting decals on their cars that showed the form of a perfectly shapped man dishing out never ending cash to a woman. Would that be enjoyable for men?
Decals don’t really convey that message. That’s what jewelry is for.
Depends how you see it. I probably wouldn’t care for either. What about a muscley man?
Except for the trucker hat and a face profile that suggests a beard is present, the rest of the figure could easily be interpreted as that of a woman, albeit one with small breasts and a large (perhaps pregnant) belly.
If I spotted it walking past in a parking lot, I’d probably laugh. As usual, subjecting it to a finger-wagging gender analysis sucks all the humor and whimsy right out of it.
I think the mudflap girls are the lowest form of erotic art. I wouldn’t have minded if mudflap guy joined them.