madison.com/post reader complaint: sexist babble!

We think Jess Blais is the greatest addition to The Post since Uncle Jimbo fled to a fortified compound on South Park street. Blais' Post-presence, Antenna of Babel, is the first exception to a long-held conviction that verbatim blog-to-blog syndication for non-PSA A&E content is... retarded.* There are these things called links and excerpts... but more on that another day. Blais has regularly posted material that would enrich the lives (gustatory, cinematic, sexual?) of readers too cowardly to follow links away from madison.com.

However, just as we were firing up this laudatory post, we received an email from a feverish reader.

In response to Blais' most recent post, re: hello kitty Barbie:

I work as a counselor at a college-prep and haberdashery camp for precocious couturiers. We encourage our charges to research global "culture" each morning, the better to find unusual fabrics to appropriate for their final project--Tux-athon '07. The camp's both a diverse and permissive place. We consider all manner of sexually-charged, drug-laced imagery a necessary component of the campers' education. We actively encourage miscegenation. They are too young for us to worry over amorous bundles conceived by consenting clothiers.

We draw the line, however, at sexism. All genders should be equally exploited and ridiculed via injection-molded plastic. I just spent the lunch hour talking a budding Orientalist down from seppuku by pinking shears. The boy read Jess Blais' most recent post on madison.com, regarding a Hello Kitty Barbie.

At first blush, he was overjoyed, giddy, in stitches! Here was the riff his projected needed, his and hers digi-tuxes, with a companion line tailored to Mattel physiques--Big and Tall cuts for obese plush toys somewhere down the line?

But there was no mention of a Hello Kitty Ken. The boy's dream is crushed. He simply cannot envision a gender-neutral tux. Would you ask someone to design his and hers dresses around a male (albeit crotchless) model?

Please talk some sense into Blais. At the very least, she should remove the post until investigating further. Or whenever she can provide concrete details regarding Ken's outfit.

regards,
Alfonse Charcuterie, American Collegiate Adventures

*conceptually blocked, of course.