Poise Pro-Choice Messenger Bag
For now the feminist ad network is on hold, scratched in favor of a person-to-person deal promoting an item I love, the pro-choice messenger bag. Bonus: when you buy one, Cinnamon donates $15 of your payment to your favorite pro-choice non-profit. Cinnamon Cooper, creator of Poise.cc is a handbag designer with a grand vision. Her [...]
...read moreCapitalist pigs, Thomas Friedman, and me
Due to various Net Nanny restrictions, I’m unable to get to most of the websites and blogs that interest me – Feministing, Alas, the Village Voice, AlterNet, even Slate are all usually blocked. I can trick it into letting me get to Feministe by clicking “refresh” seven or eight times until it gets tired of [...]
...read moreTake Back the Language of Empowerment
This is actually a real advertisement: Take Back Your Saturday Morning This spring and summer, Mr. Clean MagicReach™ is empowering women across America to free themselves from the tiresome task of household cleaning with the plea to Take Back Your Saturday Morning! Mr. Clean MagicReach is a new and innovative tool from Mr. Clean® that [...]
...read moreBuy Ford
Why? Because the AFA is boycotting them. The AFA, the nonprofit group run by the Rev. Donald Wildmon, criticized Ford for donating money to gay-rights organizations (Ford offers to give up to $1,000 to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination for every Jaguar and Land Rover it sells to a member of GLAAD, the [...]
...read moreBurgers, babies and Paris Hilton
First, Carl’s Jr turns out an ad featuring an animated baby in utero (and I say “baby” because this thing looks more like a three-month-old than a fetus or even a newborn) mouthing off to mama because she’s eating a spicy burger. Now, it’s bikini-clad Paris Hilton washing a Bentley and eating a burger. “We [...]
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