# Anne Geddes: you are one FUCKED UP woman **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143 "2001-11-02T16:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![moodtobestewed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@moodtobestewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodtobestewed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/1 "2001-11-02T16:36:17Z")
Who the hell do you think you are? Do you not realize those babies are human beings, not just props for your brand of sentimental shlock™? Let me explain this to you. Putting a baby in a bee suit isn’t “cute” — it’s exploitation you kitschy bitch. Making a baby look like a sunflower isn’t “precious” — it’s victimization you insipid shit-peddler. Dressing up a baby in a lady bug costume isn’t “adorable” — it’s a crime against humanity for which the only just punishment would be for you to have to spend the rest of your miserable excuse for a life dressed in a PUMPKIN OUTFIT like the one you forced on those innocent children. And yet, not only are the children exploited, but so are the parents under your evil scheme. Lord knows only a crack-addled mother would permit her child to be subjugated to such a thing. What do you give them Anne - $50? $100?? - in exchange for their child’s dignity, nay, their very soul!?! You are the very embodiment of the phrase “the banality of evil.” Mark my words, Anne Geddes, one day those babies will be _adults_ - yes, knife-wielding, gun-toting pissed off adults - and you will have a terrible price to pay for deeds. Only your scalp will erase their shame - remember that you vapid wench! BWA-HA-HA-HA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/2 "2001-11-02T16:44:43Z")
Abe Babe tries to keep a steady face while frantically and repeatedly pressing the “Alarm” button hidden underneath his desk. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/3 "2001-11-02T16:45:03Z")
Wow. You know, they make decaf coffee now. Perhaps you should check on that option. Zette ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/4 "2001-11-02T16:45:55Z")
So what to ya say to all those parents that dressed their kids up for Halloween in about the same kind of costumes? They were probably in those costumes longer than the kids were that Anne photographs. I take it you don’t have kids. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/5 "2001-11-02T16:46:55Z")
when I finally have a baby, I think I ONLY dress it in bee suits God they’re cute. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/6 "2001-11-02T16:56:56Z")
Sick bastards… [dressing](http://home.revealed.net/ddwyer/maeve-packers.jpg) up babies for their own amusement. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/7 "2001-11-02T16:59:08Z")
Hey, **jar** , don’t commit yourself yet. My grandson is only 4 months old and he had on the absolute cutest bat suit for halloween you’ve ever seen. Course now I guess I should check my son’s home for crack, guns, and other drugs. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/8 "2001-11-02T17:04:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > \*\*Sick bastards… [dressing](http://home.revealed.net/ddwyer/maeve-packers.jpg) up babies for their own amusement. \*\* Well, Bumblebees and Eggs and Rabbits are just fine. But holy christ, a PACKERS Fan?!? Now that is cruel, and really uncalled for. 😉 (jusy yankin yer chain. Cute kid!) ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/9 "2001-11-02T17:06:28Z")
oh beagle. what a sad road you’ve started your child down. poor little maeve. jar ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/10 "2001-11-02T17:17:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*oh beagle. what a sad road you’ve started your child down. > > poor little maeve. > > jar \*\* mrs beagledave is from Oak Park…her siblings all live in the Chicago area…we get these insults on a regular basis 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/11 "2001-11-02T17:18:56Z")
I’m with ya, mood! Every time I see those pictures I want to PUKE! Who cares about the babies! Put em in a vat of boiling oil with their cutsie little flower costumes on, for all I care. I just don’t want to be subjected to those god-awful pictures anymore! > [@](#): > > cloy (kloi) > v. cloyed, cloy·ing, cloys (See: _Anne Geddes_) > v. tr. > To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/12 "2001-11-02T17:22:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Demo \* > \*\*I’m with ya, mood! > > Every time I see those pictures I want to PUKE! > > Who cares about the babies! Put em in a vat of boiling oil with their cutsie little flower costumes on, for all I care. I just don’t want to be subjected to those god-awful pictures anymore! > > \*\* Then how do you feel about [this](http://www.octanecreative.com/Parodyville/arnegottus/)? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/13 "2001-11-02T17:43:03Z")
Heh! ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/14 "2001-11-02T17:51:44Z")
**beagledave** , ugggh! 😉 I must say I like the one of the head being burried though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/15 "2001-11-02T18:04:28Z")
I think it’s cute, some of it, but my GOD woman, isn’t part of being an artist Growth? Change? Hmm? How long are you going to continue? Can anyone say One-trick Pony? (Not you, **Spreeeee** ) [sub][sup]ihaveanannegeddesphotoupinmybathroommuchtomyshame onlybecauseitstheonlyoneicouldfindthatmatchedmycolourscheme[/sup][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/16 "2001-11-02T18:13:17Z")
Goodness Dave she is growing so fast, and I haven’t even had the chance to come over and spoil her rotten yet! You need to get me a picture of her with stuffed animal that I got for her for christmas last year. As for those Anne Geddes pictures some of them I like, and some of them are just disturbing. I guess it depends on the mood of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/17 "2001-11-02T18:18:27Z")
I guess the thing I find offensive about Anne G. Is that she’s hailed as being this really creative photog, but she ran out of original ideas right after she took her first baby-in-costume pic. Everything since has been variations on a theme, and there’s only so many ways you can tart kids up in costumes. “Go with what you know” is good advice, but good God! Shouldn’t she have at least _one_ other idea? ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/18 "2001-11-02T18:19:11Z")
Reminds me of a great captioned picture from the Onion. Depicted were two 3-year-old boys dressed in Nazi SS Uniforms with narrow Hitler-like moustaches. The caption read: “Anne Geddes Has Completely Lost It”!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/19 "2001-11-02T18:24:02Z")
Anne Geddes is so, like, five years ago. Is anybody still buying her crappy kitsch? (I liked the treatment her “famous babies” got on “Friends”). ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/20 "2001-11-02T18:29:47Z")
Wow! Great rant. I give it a 10+, mostly because I hate that Anne Geddes shit, too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143.md?page=2)