WTF Or Not... You Decide

Some outlandish WTFckery coming your way...

1. Looks like there maybe another case of cover whitewashing, although this time there's opposing opinions whether it's true. What If Books Etc. has an interesting case about the cover for the much buzzed about YA book, Across the Universe by Beth Revis.

"What you need to know is that the original, ARC cover shows two faces in silhouette about to kiss. The new, published cover has used the same image, but photoshopped the male model to look clearly different; to look more White. In other words, whitewashing."

Note the difference between the cover for the ARC versus the Published version:

And the side by side faces in question:

"The male lead is a member of a fictional race called monoethnic. Phoebe, the author of The Interrobangs article, has a long list of quotes from the book describing his appearance, but given descriptions like creamy dark skin, high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes, it's very clear that he isn't Caucasian. She also tracked down the original photo used in the cover, which shows the cover model as an obvious POC with an afro.

If it was just two faces in silhouette, if I'd never seen the ARC cover, I'd probably roll my eyes that they'd resorted to a cop-out to avoid showing an interracial couple on the cover of an interracial romance. I mean, race is the whole point of the story and they can't even put it on the cover? But having seen the original cover, having seen the stock photo, there's no doubt in my mind that they deliberately photoshopped him to look more White."

It does look like some major photoshop has occured to fine tune the face into a more pleasing, "white" look face. What do you think? (Thanks to The Booksmugglers)

2. Some other book WTFckery here..

Squishy, Stinky Diaper anyone?

Synopsis: This is the story of a cranky baby and her diaper change. She cries. She rolls over. She almost escapes! She pokes her squishy diaper. She kicks her foot in the diaper cream. She does all the things a baby might do when she doesn't want to be changed. But her mommy is patient and knows just what to do. In the end, she's clean and dry and happy again. Until next time she needs a diaper change.

Possible Threesome among the shotglasses? (Thanks to Mandi from Smexybooks)

3. This is a WTFing travesity! I felt total rage upon reading this. From The Consumerist:

Hairless Kitten Freezes To Death After Trip In Delta Cargo Hold

"Snickers, an eleven-week-old hairless kitten, flew from from a breeder in Utah to her new home in Connecticut in the supposedly climate-controlled cargo hold of a Delta Airlines plane. Her new family paid the airline $70 extra so she would be removed immediately. Instead, she sat under the plane for about 50 minutes, on a 10 degree Fahrenheit evening. When she finally met her family, she showed symptoms of severe hypothermia. They tried to warm her up and rushed to a vet, but it was too late.

So if the animals sits on the runway for any length of time, it's going to get hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It was 7 degrees, she says, when the kitten was sitting on the runway. She sat outside 50 minutes.

”A final determination of the cat's cause of death will come from the necropsy, but Snickers was cold, unable to move her head or paws, and bleeding from her mouth and nose—all symptoms of severe hypothermia in a cat."

4. Have you ever heard of a 16 year old breastfeeding from their mother? Breastfeeding is the topic of conversation over at Karen Knows Best where the question regarding mothers and when they should stop breastfeeding their children. How old is too old?

Karen also links an article over at the Guardian.Uk called Mothers who breastfeed beyond babyhood. Can breastfeeding really be good for older children?

"Physiologically, there is no research, as yet, to suggest that breastfeeding for longer than two years is significantly beneficial. As the WHO says: "We don't know. There is no evidence either way."

Sinnott is, however, passionate about the advantages, even though the evidence she cites is overwhelmingly anecdotal, and personal. "A child who has been breastfed to their heart's content ... has a basic sunny aspect to their nature," she says. "They are amazing; self-confident and outgoing but not in a brash way – the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming."

At one point she mentions a 16-year-old boy who was regularly fed by his mother and cites examples of even older children. She says breastfeeding adolescents isn't a practice she would dismiss out of hand" O.O

First off a 16-year-old boy breastfeeding from his mother on a regular basis grosses me out in so many ways. I'm in the belief when toddlers have all their teeth, that's when the breastfeeding should stop, but then again I'm not a mother and never will be.

Mothers, what do you say?

5. Who knew sex toys were the perfect weapon to use when attacking a police officer? From The Huffington Post:

Sex Toy Attack Was Self-Defense: Woman Accused Of Threatening Cop With Dildo Speaks

"A woman who made news for attacking a police officer with a "clear, rigid feminine pleasure device" is claiming that she was acting in self-defense.

Carolee Bildsten was found by a police officer lying in the grass down the street from a Joe's Crab Shack in Gurnee, Illinois last November. She told the officer that she had eaten at the restaurant but forgotten her wallet at home, and was heading back to get money to pay her tab.

The policeman drove Bildsten to her house in his squad car, and she went inside to grab her money. As TribLocal reported at the time, she told the officer her money was in her sock drawer, but opened the drawer and pulled out a sex toy instead. She "held it over her head and approached the officer in a threatening manner," according to the police report.

When asked why she chose the pleasure device to defend herself with, Bildsten said, "The only thing in my sock drawer besides my socks and my cash was a dildo."

6. Looks like 2011 is the year of the unicorn fashion. Raise your hand if you'd wear this walking down a crowded street. From Io9:

7. Is this trying to be like Vitamin Water? Sorry, I won't be buying Meat Water anytime in the future. From Gizmodo:

"Till Krautkraemer is the founder of MeatWater, a beverage company that creates hearty -- and obviously meaty -- meal supplement drinks in highly unusual flavors like cheeseburger, barbecued chicken wings and Italian sausage.

To ring in the new year and toast to a healthier lifestyle, Krautkraemer has just released four new offbeat offerings that are vegan-friendly and devoid of animal byproducts.

Weird beverage line MeatWater has just released four new flavors for the health-conscious consumer: poached salmon salad, seen here, grilled chicken salad, beef salad and shrimp salad.The new flavors in his MeatWaterVOID line include poached salmon salad -- which supposedly tastes like a piece of salmon over lettuce, asparagus and mustard seeds -- and grilled chicken salad, a green-colored beverage said to taste like grilled chicken, spinach and onions, complete with a balsamic vinegar dressing."

8. Most adorable cake WTFckery I've seen in a long time. From Cakewrecks: Smooshy pandas!

9. Most of you know I'm part of the Team Cucumber club because of Otto the Cucumber, as I like to call him, from Carolyn Crane's Disillusionists Trilogy.Well, SonomaLass found this oh so awesome naughty commercial for Sara's Secret and Condoms To Go adult novelty stores

I had a good chuckle as the poor cucumber runs and hides in the safest place he knows... the refrigerator.



10. And your WTFckery Regetsy is very pink and... I can't even tell you what this is. Of course my pervy mind is in overload over what it could be.

As, always bringing you some of the best WTFckery found on the internet!