# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/41 "2001-11-03T02:08:56Z")
There’s one Geddes that I like, and I have to smile every time I look at it. No costume involved, just a nekkid baby, surrounded by pink roses, legs crossed, **huge** grin. I don’t mind Geddes. It’s P. Buckley Moss’s “art” that I don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/42 "2001-11-03T02:20:15Z")
Who the hell is Goldsboro, or whoever? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/43 "2001-11-03T03:28:44Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > **I don’t care one way or the other myself, but one thing that does bug me about Anne Geddes is that her pictures encourage women that _all_ babies need to be overweight butterballs with rolly-polly arms and round faces to be cute.** Can babies be “overweight”? They eat when they are hungry, until they are satisfied. Exercise is out, because, you know, they don’t really walk or stand up until near the end of the first years. I am a little creeped out by the notion that babies can be “overweight”. I think most babies are just the weight they’re supposed to be for the first 8 months of life, at least. It disturbs me that a parent would worry about their teeny tiny baby being “overweight”. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/44 "2001-11-03T03:30:32Z")
Oh dear god, why didn’t my preview show me that ridiculous plural? First year, not first year **s**. Am I blind? ::walks away grumbling:: ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/45 "2001-11-03T03:58:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\*My first experience with her was when some dingbat in my office had a picture of the babies dressed up like peas in a pod. My response was “WTF? The babies are FOOD? We’re supposed to EAT THEM?!?!” Blech! \*\* The babies as peas made me almost physically ill, for just that reason. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/46 "2001-11-03T04:00:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > **I don’t care one way or the other myself, but one thing that does bug me about Anne Geddes is that her pictures encourage women that _all_ babies need to be overweight butterballs with rolly-polly arms and round faces to be cute.** Some of them look like little midget Michelin Men. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/47 "2001-11-03T04:02:39Z")
And hey, guys, I have a question - which is worse: Her pictures, or the ones in the big coffee-table books of “Baby Butts”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/48 "2001-11-03T04:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*And hey, guys, I have a question - which is worse: Her pictures, or the ones in the big coffee-table books of “Baby Butts”? 😕 \*\* Thanks **Anthracite** , my head just exploded. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck… ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/49 "2001-11-03T04:38:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Who the hell is Goldsboro, or whoever? > > 😕 \*\* He wrote the song Honey. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/50 "2001-11-03T04:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kung fu lola \* > **Can babies be “overweight”?** Yes, they can. Gestational diabetes often causes overweight babies, and there are endocrinological problems that can cause a baby to gain weight too fast after birth. ---
**Author:** ![Raving\_Nude\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Raving\_Nude\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raving_Nude_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/51 "2001-11-03T05:15:13Z")
Worst Place for an Anne Geddes print? My dentist has them on the celing over the dentist’s chairs in his ofice! Sit there looking up at one of those damn photos while someone works inside my mouth with sharp instuments? ARRGH! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/52 "2001-11-03T06:14:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*I still like bee suits. > > jar \*\* You know, even John Belushi was kinda cute and cuddly dressed up as a kiler bee. buzz buzz buzz ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/53 "2001-11-03T07:25:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lee \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > > \*\*Who the hell is Goldsboro, or whoever? > > > > 😕 \*\* > > He wrote the song Honey. \*\* And, I think, “Watching Scotty Grow”. Late Sixties, early Seventies. Really REALLY sappy crap! ---
**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 3, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/54 "2001-11-03T15:22:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Sit there looking up at one of those damn photos while someone works inside my mouth with sharp instuments? ARRGH! \*\* A real sadist, hmmm? ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/55 "2001-11-03T16:36:20Z")
Well, I would like to thank you all VERY FRIGGING MUCH. ``` I had personally never heard of Anne Geddes until today, and I wish things hadn't changed. I browsed her site looking for the fabled ["pea"](http://www.annegeddes.com/indexpages.cfm?P=G&U=calendar_gallery_05.cfm) and ["pumpkin"](http://www.annegeddes.com/indexpages.cfm?P=G&U=calendar_gallery_05.cfm) photos.(Check 1992 & 1996 for all of the other uninitiated) Disturbing. I can't believe anyone would find these pictures "cute", let alone have their child be IN one of them. ``` * * * ~It was good living with you… -Better Than Ezra ---
**Author:** ![Kaje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/56 "2001-11-03T18:03:24Z")
This is just what I wanted to see: Babies hung by [meat hooks](http://www.annegeddes.com/images/_gallery/gcal_92_1.jpg)? And don’t tell me [this](http://www.annegeddes.com/images/_gallery/gcal_92_1.jpg) ain’t creepy. The baby looks scared. [This](http://www.annegeddes.com/images/_gallery/gcal_02_10.jpg) one reminds me of some kind of pagan ritual sacrifice type thing May I be the first to say [WTF??!@?!](http://www.annegeddes.com/images/_gallery/gcal_99_8.jpg) Now come on… kitschy… sappy… cutesy as they are… can you honestly say that you find the baby in the bee costume disturbing compared to THAT shit? ---
**Author:** ![Kaje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/57 "2001-11-03T18:05:01Z")
Ok apparently you can’t link directly to pictures on her site… so just rest assured that they’re all pretty fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/58 "2001-11-03T19:08:23Z")
Umm, yeah. What you guys said… _(hurriedly stuffs **AG** calendar in desk drawer behind the Reeses Cups)_ ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/59 "2001-11-03T19:28:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bodypoet \* > _(hurriedly stuffs **AG** calendar in desk drawer behind the Reeses Cups)_ \*\* _…right next to her “I (heart) Steve the Dell guy” tee shirt…_ [sub]Someone please tell me I’m not a weirdo…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![GKW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@GKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GKW)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143/60 "2001-11-03T20:41:14Z")
I work with children and for some reason the toddlers on up love to look at these pictures. I don’t think it’s a ‘can’t look away from a disgusting thing’ fascination but more like a novel juxtaposition that there little brains eat up and want to experience over and over again. There is a black & white picture of hers that shows a man’s hands holding a premie which I find visually interesting but I can do without the baby/flower/vegetable/fruit stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-geddes-you-are-one-fucked-up-woman/91143.md?page=4)