The Aspie Women Photo Calendar

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I'm guessing like 20 years ago auto parts stores in the US use to hand out
calendars of scantily clad young women to their best customers. Now the
calendars have no people in any form(the ones I've seen anyway). Those
calendars are free so people still take a few. If you had to pay for them they
would have close to zero sales. Which means a political correct aspie calendar will
sale very few. The only thing that could sale is something alot of people will
find offensive. Its the only thing that would get it listed on a tabloid tv show.
So that means:
1) No calendar
2) alot of skin on a calendar
And if I was in charge I would hire any models I could find and have them sign
paperwork claiming to be AS. Thats how the real world of bussiness works.

People do tend to buy calendars that are for "good causes".

One thing that might be a good idea is for each month, to have a positive quote or comment about aspergers. So, for example, that economist who won the Nobel Prize in 2002, get a quote from him like:
"And we don't all have to think alike to be communal and to live in a productive and satisfying world."
We could also have a "tip" for dealing with some of the difficulties. Or pointers to websites and books about aspergers that *we* like.

So every month, the calendar would present something positive and present something useful, along with the photo and blurb about the person.

http://www.itgoddess.info/

This calendar shows women who work in IT, dressed, scenery etc in scenes from movies.

Then the picture must imbed the hook, and must not be wasted. Any ideas?

And the blurb though atypically empty and innocuous, could, instead carry some manner of payload message in order to make whatever sort of impact.

Additionally, there will be some unused space on the actual calendar paged for ant further text. Again, I recommend "stats," turn-ons and turn-offs etc., like in Playboy, but with some ironic Aspie twist.

BARF!! !

So what did you think of the other ideas in that post?

Hey, I didn't know you were from River City.

Sappy dull "After School Special" propaganda, with no consideration for the audience.

So what are your suggestions?

Are my posts invisible????

You're seriously suggesting "turn ons and turn offs"?

I thought we were trying to get away from the "playboy" idea. Even with the twist you suggest, I see the turnons and turnoffs as either being too cutesy or too prone to backfiring. Seems like a pretty fine line to walk, to me.

Personally, I'm more into inspirational and useful. Maybe I'm just old.

Inspirational and useful is only pandering to your own self-congratulatory vanity, and nothing whatsoever to do with ever putting yourself into the position of the consumer who's attention we might hope to court. Whereas turn-ons and turn-offs, in their difference need not be as banal as in Playboy stats, but actually intriguing revelatory of character and any unique preference or perspective.

How does it serve to refer to anna as...

I've got 3 people for an Australian one so far,

Bunya pictured at a bus stop and or surrounded by maps and globes,

Me pictured in a library with pot plants,

and Fergie's glamour photo,

I have suggested to one other person, Ajaz he get pictured with some lego near a construction site..

I am proposing to do it as a powerpoint presentation simply for our own amusement atm.

Context. much?

emc-

I’m a very process orientated person. It may not look that way because I think you have to have a goal in order for the process to happen. Whether the process actually leads to that goal is not as important (to me) as the process itself.

For purposes of PR and self-discovery, I have felt like developing selection criteria, a statement of intent, was more significant than the actual calendar itself.

I have believed that an editorial committee was the way to go, but perhaps I need to rethink that. Only CockneyRebel has formally expressed willingness to serve. Perhaps you and she should confer and develop one or two ideas for the membership to kick around. I’d like to see if we could come up with a statement that 50-90% of us finds acceptable.