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Adult Film Actress Launches Plastic Female Doll – But Not The Kind You Might Imagine

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Tanya Tate is an adult film actress from Liverpool who made it big in the USA. But she's given her career an interesting twist. As well as moving into production, she's also carved out a geek profile for herself, cosplaying, reviewing comics, films, toys, games and becoming a constant presence at comic cons.

Well, now she is literally carving out a profile for herself.

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Seeing a gap in the market for female-specific blank vinyl figures that can be adapted to any superheroine identity.

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As long as they fit a certain physical frame, with uncanny gravity defying breasts. Which, let's face it most of them do. Or can be forced to.

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Obviously there's a lot of metatextuality to hand, treating women as interchangeable individuals with nothing more than skin deep differences to separate them. And all with a mockery of an ideal body shape that reinforces rather than challenges comic industry stereotypes.

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But on the other hand, I can think of lots of women, and indeed men, who would really really like these to customise, Wonderbra inclusive or not.

20140617143836-INDIE_GOGO_Lady_Titan_2_copyTanya Tate's crowdfunding on Indigogo is currently up to $1365 of a $20,000 goal….

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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