OK... that's just vulgar...

[billd91]

This thread delivers!
Can I see it? Yes. I certainly can. Did so immediately.

Is that bad?
Not really. I think people get their undies in a bundle far too much about art that looks like bits of more frequently obscured anatomy. I don't consider swords with nimbuses of light (or flowers, or eyes of sauron, etc) that look kind of like vaginas to be particularly vulgar. In fact, if that were an intelligent weapon that seduced paladins into falling, then the additional symbolism would ROCK!

 

[wgreen]

Hay guyz,

It took me a few minutes but I finally see it now. At first, I thought it was just a picture of a big vagina, but then I was like, WHOA -- that sort of looks like a SWORD!! I hope the staff at Wizards gets this fixed right away and replaces it with a proper pic of a vagina ASAP.

kthxbye,

-Will

P.S. Seriously, I didn't see it until a few posts into the thread. My first reaction was: "Um...it's a sword." FWIW.

 

[pawsplay]

This thread delivers!
Can I see it? Yes. I certainly can. Did so immediately.

Is that bad?
Not really. I think people get their undies in a bundle far too much about art that looks like bits of more frequently obscured anatomy. I don't consider swords with nimbuses of light (or flowers, or eyes of sauron, etc) that look kind of like vaginas to be particularly vulgar. In fact, if that were an intelligent weapon that seduced paladins into falling, then the additional symbolism would ROCK!

I think there's a line between erotic forms in art and the woman on the pack of Camels that must be carefully trod.

 

[sckeener]

meh....I see it...not a big deal.

If fits the theme of the picture.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

It's the colors more than anything that make me think of a vagina. And I had to take a second look at it to get that. (Of course, I admit at first I thought everyone was talking about the eye on the hilt, so I spent a few minutes staring at that to conclude that it was, in fact, an eye.)

They don't need to do much with the picture except some adjustments to the color. But I guess my question is: why? So it resembles a vagina. Who cares? The global landscape is littered with monuments blatantly phallic in their representation.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

Even when knowing what to look for and where, it still looks like a jagged sword on a red swirly background fading into pink at the edges.

Apparently, I'm either not perverted enough or too perverted to see it.

 

[Rel]

I'm disappointed. This was the first thing that I unequivocally liked about 4e!

That disappointment is largely assuaged however by the fact that the term "vajayjay" is catching on.

 

[AllisterH]

You know when I first read the article, I didn't even make that connection until my SO pointed it out.

Reading this thread, I noticed a lot of other posters mentioning that the women in their life IMMEDIATELY saw the imagery even before they did.

And they saw we men have dirty minds....

 

[Bagpuss]

Strangely the Death Knight weapon's in the other images have a green glow (if they glow).

 

[DaveMage]

My favorite part of this thread is Nifft asking that the threads be "merged".