Mr. Skin Thinks Beating a Slave is, Like, Hawt

Well, this find goes to Dave Weigel at Slate:

(You don’t have to click the link.  When you are done reading this, you will know more about the page than you probably ever wanted to know.  And you might very well wish to avoid clicking the link and supporting this garbage.)

I found it — the worst page on the Internet. http://t.co/C9SSKjzGKS
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 5, 2014

Well, of course this is unlikely to be the actual worst.  I mean it’s a big internet.  But this is a serious contender.  Last year Twelve Years a Slave came out.  I confess I haven’t had the chance to see it, but my understanding is that it is one of the more brutal depictions of slavery akin to Schindler’s List’s depiction of the holocaust or The Last Temptation of Christ’s depiction of Jesus death: it’s horrible, and appropriately so, or so I understand.

And there is nudity in it, because slaves, particularly women, were humiliated in this fashion.  This page from a children’s book (!) about the evil of slavery is indicative:

Which to some odd people is apparently totally hawt.  Yes, if you clicked on the link (and please don’t, dear reader), it would lead you to the website “Mr. Skin,” which is dedicated to cataloguing every movie and when you can see the naked women in it.  And they did one for Twelve Years, telling you when you can see Lupita Nyongo naked.

I mean yes, this is a lovely woman...

...so what is wrong with this?  Well, as I said on twitter what was offensive about this was...

The idea of guys slapping the salami to a movie about the evil of slavery, to be precise. @dpinsen @neetzan @daveweigel
— Aaron Worthing (@AaronWorthing) May 5, 2014

Seriously, the descriptions on the website are horrifying: “Lupita briefly shows her beautiful pair as she gets stripped and tied to a tree in an uncool scene.”

I could picture some frat boy somewhere going, “what do you want from us, brah?! We said it was like totally uncool.”

Or this one: “Lupita flashes her buns as she gets whipped.”

And then all around it are links to other sites with even more explicit porn.   Which led me to this question:

Do they have one for Schindler's List? Amistad? #smdh RT @daveweigel: I found it — the worst page on the Internet. http://t.co/KutI9gFzbr
— Aaron Worthing (@AaronWorthing) May 5, 2014

Well, there was no nudity catalogue for either of those movies, but they did have one for the Last Temptation of Christ.

Hey, look it is nothing new that guys are horny and some guys like to fast forward to seeing a girl naked in movies.  Every guy was fourteen years old at one time and porn is big business for a reason.  But plainly the people at Mr. Skin had figured out that neither Amistad nor Schinder’s List was not an opportunity for hot nudity, and someone should have figured out the same for Twelve Years.

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