Punch It Strangle It Kick It Spit on It Choke It and Pummel It Until It's Good and Dead—and That's a Wrap

Of course Dolce & Gabbana knows that the depiction of a rape scene will sell clothes—nothing new there. Presumably D&G wagers the benefit of sexual violence & humiliation narratives against the risk of winding up as grist in Jean Kilbourne's mill.

Yet there is a line even ruthless ad men won't cross, and that's televising ads that depict graphically violence against women. (At least, I've never seen a snuff commercial.) That's what distinguishes ANTM's gristly editorial spread from the rest. Substantively, it's just this ad run through the Grindhouse. But ANTM being a television show in which the editorial process is (or purports to be) transparent, you get a live forum in which tastemakers say things like "[Y]ou don't look dead to me. You look like you're dying," and "Death becomes you, young lady."

Young women of the District! Find out for yourself, um, how the sausage gets made at the ANTM auditions on Saturday night.