So this metaphor from Laura Sessions Stepp's Unhooked, excerpted in the WaPo review mentioned below, comes unhinged:
Your body is your property. . . . Think about the first home you hope to own. You wouldn't want someone to throw a rock through the front window, would you?The house cracketh up:
Yglesias: Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You want to have a big party and invite all your friends over.When false entailments are drawn from a metaphor's source domain, hilarity ensues!Spencer: Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You don't want people breaking in through the front or the back.
Me: Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. If you're ever in a bind you can always take out a mortgage.
UPDATE: Genevieve had a bit on Stepp metaphors a while back.
Posted by Kriston at February 16, 2007 7:55 PMPerhaps these metaphor-adjustments could be posted on the Amazon page for the book? Could be fun.
Posted by: Jerry at February 17, 2007 1:00 PMYour body is your property. . . . Think about the first home you hope to own. Don't you want the pizza guy to deliver?
Your body is your property. . . . Think about the first home you hope to own. Imagine how proud your parents will be when they come for dinner.
Posted by: Another at February 17, 2007 1:53 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You'll certainly want to keep the hedges neatly trimmed.
Posted by: kljl at February 17, 2007 2:07 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Do you want some teenage kid messing with the plumbing, or are you going to call a pro?
Posted by: Sean at February 17, 2007 2:27 PMYour body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. If you ever get in trouble with money, you can always rent it out for use by strangers.
Your body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. You'll want an endless stream of visitors coming through that door to show off your home.
Ooo, this *is* fun ...
Posted by: BriVT at February 17, 2007 2:39 PMYour body is your property ...Think about the first home you hope to own. You can make your house payments by renting it out - just make sure to get a cleaning deposit.
Posted by: tbogg at February 17, 2007 2:51 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You don't want it crawling with vermin, do you?
Posted by: M.Sphinx at February 17, 2007 2:54 PMWhat a bunch of libertines. Clearly the correct way to think about this is:
Your body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. You'll want to buy an expensive security system and a pair of shotguns. Later, you can look into buying some vacation property down South.
Posted by: Michael Berube at February 17, 2007 3:04 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Do you want regular trash pick-up, or do you want to have to take care of that shit yourself?
Posted by: looj at February 17, 2007 3:20 PMYour body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. You want the carpet to match the drapes.
Posted by: Mike Lane at February 17, 2007 3:27 PMYour body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. After all that time living in your parents' house, and maybe sharing an apartment with inconsiderate roommates, aren't you looking forward to some privacy? You know, roll down the shades and dance in the nude? Yeah. Tell me more about that.
Posted by: Danby at February 17, 2007 4:03 PMmaybe she means that if you have sex, someone will throw a rock through your vagina? hm. windows look like eyes on the scary haunted house movie covers....maybe your eyes are windows, and your sex partner will throw a rock...at, um...your eyes? hm.
that is one tough metaphor to figure out. it's supposed to be addressed to teenaged girls?
Posted by: garth at February 17, 2007 4:13 PMYour body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. Don't get bent out of shape if a neighbor asks you to trim your bush.
Posted by: hork at February 17, 2007 4:58 PMYour body is your property... Think about the first home you hope to own. You don't want strangers coming in your back door.
Your body is your property... Think about the first home you hope to own. An entire family--mom, dad, two kids, and a dog--has been in it all at the same time, almost every night, and loved it.
Your body is your property... Think about the first home you hope to own, and all the toys you can fill it with.
Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You want a white picket fence snd a dog playing on the lawn.
Posted by: Jo at February 17, 2007 6:25 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Odds are it's going to be a fixer-upper and will need some major improvements to make it attractive. A larger front porch, for example.
Posted by: MFA at February 17, 2007 6:34 PMYour body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. Would you let a boy fuck your new home?
Posted by: HD Bill at February 17, 2007 6:47 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Most likely, several other people have had wild parties and all manner of sex in it, and it's still your dream home.
Posted by: 12xuser at February 17, 2007 6:53 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. When you have visitors over for dinner, you want to make sure it's clean.
Posted by: sebastian at February 17, 2007 7:11 PMI just want to thank you all for providing a thread that not only made me laugh out loud repeatedly, but brought tears to my eyes.
Posted by: Avedon at February 17, 2007 7:12 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You'll probably want to keep your back door unlocked in case you forget your keys, at least if you live in the suburbs.
Posted by: Melanie S. at February 17, 2007 10:00 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Even if no one has technically owned it before you, during its construction there were all sorts of construction workers, plumbers, electricians, etc, walking all around it, and maybe neighbors walking through and analyzing the floorplan and the fixtures. But at least the builder cleaned it up before you moved in and fixed any broken windows and poorly installed doors or shelves.
Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Wait, scratch that -- on second thought, maybe getting women to think about the social progress that has allowed them to have careers such that they can afford to buy their own house is not such a good idea, since back when the sexual mores were like the ones I'm promoting, women who worked were in poorly paid jobs because it was assumed that they couldn't do men's jobs, and it was also assumed that they were just supporting themselves until they were able to get married, or helping to put their husband through school so that he could have a real career and then she could stay home with the kids. Then the mortgage was probably in his name, because, hey, it was his money after all.
Posted by: Azelie at February 17, 2007 10:34 PMYour body is your property ... Think about the first home you hope to own. Aren't you glad you have a legal right to evict unwanted squatters from it?
Posted by: Phoenician in a time of Romans at February 17, 2007 11:32 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Oh, wait, you're an academic. You'll need to rent somebody else's home. Better start saving up!
Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. If you make the right improvements, then you'll be able to make a huge profit when you sell it in a few years.
Posted by: Jane Dark at February 18, 2007 12:47 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Be wary of moving into neighbourhoods with homeowner's associations, because if you don't keep up your property to community standards, you'll face harsh social penalties.
Hmm... *grin*
This may be my new favourite blog. I think I sprained my abdomen from laughing. Talk about inappropriate qualities in source versus target domains.
Posted by: Interrobang at February 18, 2007 1:16 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You probably ought to get a video camera on it.
Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. If you think you've noticed a gas leak, make sure you call someone to check it out.
Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. It's just a fantasy really, you'll probably never be able to afford it.
Your body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You really should try to clean it now and again.
Good fun, thanks :)
Posted by: Tomble at February 18, 2007 1:26 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Make sure everyone wipes their feet.
Posted by: Melvin at February 18, 2007 1:50 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You have to put chlorine in the swimming pool every day.
Posted by: utica at February 18, 2007 2:58 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Can I come in?
Posted by: smgumby at February 18, 2007 4:07 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own, and how you plan to respond to all the Jehovah's Witnesses who want to come inside.
Posted by: spencer at February 18, 2007 7:44 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own, and how you want to keep the septic field drained, and the rain gutters free of leaves and bird's nests.
Posted by: Olive at February 18, 2007 1:58 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Give a neighbor or two a key to let the animals out while you're on vacation.
Posted by: Josh at February 18, 2007 4:53 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Give a neighbor or two a key to let the animals out while you're on vacation.
Posted by: Josh at February 18, 2007 4:54 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. And all the other people who've done a walk through and decided on a better house with more space and bigger entryways
Posted by: Crystal* at February 18, 2007 6:02 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Water your lawn every week and spray for chinch bugs now and then to keep it healthy.
Posted by: PattyP at February 18, 2007 6:35 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Would you do the Century 21 guy to get an edge over other prospective buyers?
Posted by: clarke at February 18, 2007 9:36 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You can trash it all to hell and never have to worry about a security deposit.
Posted by: jenofiniquity at February 19, 2007 2:06 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. It's nobody else's fucking business who you invite into your home.
Posted by: eyelessgame at February 19, 2007 12:52 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Yup, that squeaky back door is gonna need some WD-40.
Posted by: Blue Gal at February 19, 2007 3:43 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. Most likely, only strangers will use the front entrance, while everyone else will come in the rear.
Posted by: mustelid at February 19, 2007 8:59 PMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. You'd want to call the cops in case of forced entry.
Posted by: aw at February 20, 2007 9:36 AMYour body is your property. Think about the first home you hope to own. No one's ever coming in if they have to get past a cracked Stepp out front.
eyelessgame said what I wanted to say.
Posted by: Kip W at February 20, 2007 7:31 PMthaaaanks
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