Is it (a) A female Transformer robot? (b) A vagina shaped bed or (c) The new female member of GWAR?
We’ll answer the question shortly, but first, a little background. Several years ago, I coined the term Rabbit Wholing to describe the way you can end up looking at Air Chilled Whole Rabbit on Amazon (Only $47.99!), when originally, you had started out with a perfectly sensible search like Compact Banana Bunker
. I experienced this rabbit wholing phenomena once again today, when I did a Google Image Search for “Vulvatron”. This may seem a strange thing to be searching on the internet, but a Tweet passed through my feed with the headline All Hail Vulvatron, GWAR’s Unlikely New Vocalist.
This clearly is a useless piece of information without photos, so I of course immediately did an image search for “Vulvatron”. And what did I find? Well, surprisingly few pictures of the new member of GWAR, for starters. What I did find were lots of images of THIS Vulvatron, which, although on the face of things appears to be your garden-variety vagina-shaped bed, is in fact “an immersive, interactive mobile art installation featuring video projections, LEDs, sound, and scent“, as its creators put it. We’ll leave it up to you decide what the “scent” is; apparently you could have had a sniff yourself if you had gone to Burning Man this year. In spite of generating about $12,000 of the $30,000 they were seeking with their IndieGogo campaign, they seem to have made the journey.
While I was engaged in this critically important research, a friend called, and asked what I was doing. “Looking for pictures of Vulvatron”, I matter-of-factly replied, to which she responded with “Hmmm. What’s that? A female Transformer robot?” Which then of course led to an enlightening dialogue about the fact that although there are dozens of female Transformers characters, pretty much none of them end up in Transformers movies. I know I’ve got you now, you’re DYING to know why. One reason apparently is because Michael Bay hates them and kills them. And the other reason is that “you are a female Transformer” is clearly not on the list of tips for How to Tell You’re a Woman in a Michael Bay Film .
I’m sorry. What was the question?