Tag Archives: advertising
drive-by posting
It’s sad when you’ve got the TV on with the sound off and you glance up to see an “older” (say, 40-50 years old) couple canoodling and you automatically know it’s an ad for an erectile dystunction drug. Because people … Continue reading
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and your food sucks.
Ha, ha! Get it? Because women are objects! Just like cheap-ass Burger King Star Trek glasses. Oh, it’s hysterical.
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oh cheerios, wholesome foodstuff of my childhood. why do you hurt me so?
In a round of Overrated/Underrated over on Feministing, I kept seeing “analysis of sexism in the media” pop up on the overrated lists. “Yes, we know it exists already,” one commenter said. The lists are bringing up a lot of … Continue reading
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links of interest
I have some posts in the works, but I’m dealing with some stuff right now. Meanwhile, have some links. *I enjoy a trip down memory lane with Pajiba’s top 20 films of the year I graduated high school. My heart … Continue reading
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classism in advertising
Dear Honda, I make somewhere around minimum wage as a college instructor; my husband is an assistant manager at a fast food restaurant. I drive a car that’s older than my students, or rather did until it died about a … Continue reading
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links of interest
*The Seattle Medium examines how missing white women get more media coverage than missing black women and how that affects victims. *Shakesville has a post analyzing commercials that inadvertently reinforce the myth of chronic pain being “fake.” *From Pandagon, a … Continue reading
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good and bad commercials about gender
I love the hyper-masculinity of Old Spice commercials, which play on the implicit promise of Axe ads—body wash makes you sexy—with a cheesy 70s absurdism. Rather than promising that use of the product itself makes you irresistible to women, it … Continue reading
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