Hedwig? Is that you?

My favorite rock musical of all time is not "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". "It is not Jesus Christ Superstar". It is not "Godspell" or "The Wiz" although I'm sure they have their fans and followers. No, my taste runs to the more modern. I love and adore "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." It's loud, colourful, over the top and full of drag queens! God I love Drag Queens...

Anyway, Hedwig is the story of a young boy who escapes from East Berlin before the wall comes down by getting a sex change to marry his American GI boyfriend and escape to the States. However his surgery is botched and he's left with neither female or male genitalia but instead a 1 inch mound of flesh that he lovingly refers to as his "Barbie Doll Crotch" or his "Angry Inch". Upon arriving in the States his GI husband abandons him. To satisfy her soul Hedwig starts a rock band, writing songs about her experiences and tribulations. There's a love story involving a thieving Rock Star as well...but that's the gist of it.

I bring this up because as I was walking through the subway system today when I saw this ad for H&M posted on the wall:
It was about 8 feet high and I'm awfully little so the first thing I noticed was her crotch. It's a "Barbie ]Doll Crotch" They airbrushed out her bits. I can understand that they are trying to advertise the bikini bottoms, but the pose is awkward looking. The girl looks like plastic...and her crotch...oh her crotch...

Let me show you what I mean:

I know it's a crappy shot but if you click on the image it will enlarge it for you. But am I wrong? Even if they had lazered out her furry bits, which I'm sure they did, something still looks very wrong After I took it a small elderly Asian man accosted me for being a tool of the media. "They get you how they can!" He screamed at me as he shook his walking stick.

To celebrate the Barbie doll crotch here's a clip from Hedwig singing about her Angry Inch in a triumph of fury and sound.