# Who are today's poster women?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-todays-poster-women/404649>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 18, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-todays-poster-women/404649 "2007-05-18T21:41:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-todays-poster-women/404649/61 "2007-05-22T12:48:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Lisa-go-Blind]  
I’m pretty sure it isn’t. The [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28photograph%29) on it doesn’t mention tATu either.  
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A quick visit to Google suggests that:

a) You’re right, they’re not the girls from Tatu; and  
b) It’s a very popular misapprehension that the poster is of the girls from Tatu.

And I’m further nonplused to learn that there’s a whole wikipedia page devoted to a single poster.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-todays-poster-women/404649/62 "2007-05-22T12:56:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Lisa-go-Blind]  
I’m pretty sure it isn’t. The [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28photograph%29) on it doesn’t mention tATu either.  
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Have to agree. They don’t really look anything at all like those two women.

I also think the Kiss photo has been around for many, many, many years, hasn’t it? Seems like it was around before the tATu girls hit puberty, and maybe even before they were born.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-todays-poster-women/404649/63 "2007-05-22T17:14:21Z")

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[QUOTE=Lisa-go-Blind]  
I’m pretty sure it isn’t. The [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28photograph%29) on it doesn’t mention tATu either.  
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It does say, however:

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> It has achieved a level of iconography, largely due to its popularity as a poster in the college dorm rooms of North America.

Presumably in **guys’** dorm rooms – which makes me wonder if the girls have one too, with two guys kissing.

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