Edgy snowboard graphics (Playboy nudes) test liberal Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt. - For Nicole Zarrillo, seeing a snowboarder with one of Burton Snowboards' new Playboy designs at a Vermont ski slope underscored the reasons why many Vermonters - including her boss - are protesting the new men's snowboards.

Steamy snowboards in Vermont"When you really think about it, it's a young man standing on top of a naked woman's body," said Zarrillo, 38, an office manager for a nonprofit based in Burlington, also home to Burton's headquarters. "I probably could have gotten past it, because I try to have an open mind, but seeing it like that, it's offensive."

Burton Snowboards, located in Vermont's largest city since 1992, cemented its reputation among Vermonters as a progressive company through employee benefits such as matching child-care payments and paying for half of a worker's gym membership.

Yet the company has found itself at the center of a grow ing controversy in the liberal state, with residents, students, and politicians debating free speech and sexism on the ski slopes. The Burlington City Council discussed asking Burton to withdraw the boards, and the Girl Scout Council of Vermont is considering taking concerns to lawmakers next month.


You'll have to get your own pictures, but there's more to the story here...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2009/01/05/edgy_snowboard_graphics_test_liberal_vermont/

Sometimes I think the internet generation is Boomers on Hyper-drive.

This isn't something that should be legislated; this is something that boarders should just plain know is offensive and get cool. Skiers used to have "Mother Truckers" but IIRC, that was on the bottom.

Link to the boards: http://www.snowboarding.com/products/burton/burton-playboy-152.html

Probably not the kind of thing you want kids at the slope looking at.

but she always leads him directly downhill.



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With a product line featuring naked 70 year old men.

/rimshot

You need this -

and they are sexist crap, but I'm not sure I see the point of protesting. Quite a few ski areas are refusing to allow employees to use them. And Smuggs is less than thrilled as it caters to young families.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!



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My feeling is 'meh, mating displays - what else is new'.

women/girls with these boards. If I saw a guy with one, I'd just think what a jerk... LOL

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"Snowboarding is the fastest-growing sport among teens, and every winter weekend hundreds are hitting the slopes.

But as NewsChannel5's Paul Kiska reported in this special assignment, they might be running into more than they bargained for with the latest snowboards -- that feature pictures of scantily clad women.

The women are porn stars. Steve Hirsh, the owner Vivid Videos, the world's largest adult film company, struck a deal with the snowboard company Sims to make snowboards featuring popular porn stars.

And the boards are selling fast at northeast Ohio ski shops -- and are so popular they are running out of them at the stores, reported NewsChannel5.

"You don't have to be a good snowboarder as long as you get out on the slopes and you have one of these boards -- you'll look like you know what you're doing," said Jenna Jameson, of Vivid Video.

The boards in the stores proudly show off some of Vivid's most popular porn stars, and it gets worse -- x-rated snowboards can be ordered."

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2833598/detail.html

.... Teen boys w/ naked girlie pix .... the horror of it all ... :sarcasm:

My son has a snowboard with a screaming skull and flames on it ....
I wonder if he is working for the devil? :rofl:

Big picture the company gives a paycheck, health care, and a part
payment on a gym membership to it's workers and to do this they
must sell their product. Teen boys like girls, snowboards, and
shocking people .... end of story.

BTW the important thing is can they ride the thing and shred it?

Much better than riding a naked girl.

Wait... No it isn't.

horrible flight crews used to paint those DISGUSTING, PORNOGRAPHIC "pinup-type" images on planes bought with TAXPAYER DOLLARS! The HORROR!

The sad truth is that snowboarders wank over their boards anyway. This just makes the wanking somewhat less pathetic.

wanking over their boards :rofl: :freak:

we gots a rudder ...

Plus for a lot of young men who buy those boards it's the only ass they are going to get for a long time.