“Maskers,” Men Who Dress up Like Rubber Dolls, Are a Real, Terrifying Thing
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“They’re not freaky people – they’re just like you and me.” So says one of the interview subjects in a promo for UK Channel 4’s Secrets of the Living Dolls. The person saying it must either assume we people watching it are all Furries, or that it’s just a regular thing to do to inject saline solution into your pecs to make temporary fake boobs that match your Auton mask.
I’m somewhat speechless on this. As a very young kid, I had a fear of dolls and mannequins; as an adult, I think I’d rather see somebody in a Nic Cage mashup bodysuit than one of these things.
And yet I’m also dying to know what goings-on will occur when “Maskers” start holding conventions.
Oh wait. Shit. They’re already having them. And I’m not sure I wanted to find that site…
h/t Lewis Fein & James.k.Polk
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist