Feminism: Getting ‘em young
That kid rocks my world. I love that she identifies feeling that the toy companies are “tricking” people with the pink toys/princesses are for girls nonsense, and I love that she identifies the binary as being pink for girls and other colours for boys. [S]he clearly understands the concepts, feels strongly about them, and is articulating them clearly. That’s awesome.
...read moreSometimes Women Have Scrotums.
So a new advertising campaign has been released for testicular cancer awareness clearly aimed at cis female-attracted men. It features Rhian Sugden, a cis female model, posing sexily for the camera, running her hands over her body, then pulling a scrotum out of her underwear and examining it. Watch the YouTube video here, because embedding [...]
...read moreMuch goodness from Sarah Haskins
Here are two of her latest videos! Target Women: How to Get Hot Chicks (The other video and transcripts for both are behind the cut.)
...read moreThe Politics of Peeing: Test-driving a Go-Girl
The instant I found out about the newly rebranded female urination device (FUD), Go-Girl, I jumped for joy. The news segment I saw on it (above) made it look great, and the website paints it even better: like a statement of one’s bad-ass independence and sassiness. “Don’t take life sitting down,” the tagline proudly proclaims. [...]
...read morePink AND Magical!
This is something I’d never noticed before, but in retrospect resonates back into my own childhood. Referencing Clarke’s Third Law, the author of the following piece offers, “Toys marketed to girls don’t use technology; they use magic.” …computers and electronics and alkaline batteries allow toys to do amazing things. Toy companies are well aware of [...]
...read moreTarget Women: Brooke Shields
Sarah Haskins on Mrs. Mom-a-morphosis, who wants to help cure your un-feminine eyelashes, fyi…
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Aging Is (Not) Unnatural
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross-posted to Body Impolitic. All photographs by Laurie Toby Edison. Some photos below may not be okay for office viewing. After our introductory post here last week, Daisy Deadhead asked if we wrote about age as a body image issue, since we hadn’t happened to mention it in that post. Great [...]
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Go For the Black Can, Dude!
Campbell’s seems to be outdoing itself in its efforts to create the Manliest Soup in the World. Look at what I found at the grocery store, complete with uber-manly label and everything: This line of soups isn’t exactly new; they seem to have been around since last year, along with their super-manly slogan: “When you’ve [...]
...read moreTarget Women — Catching Up!
I’ve been completely slacking on the Target Women front, so it’s time to catch up! Here are the videos I’ve missed these past few weeks. First up, the brand new edition: Dating Advice (Click here if you can’t view the embedded video.) And next up: Hair! (Click here if you can’t view the embedded video.) [...]
...read moreMocking Gendered Advertising
Via both Sociological Images and Hoyden About Town, I came across this little clip from British TV show That Mitchell and Webb Look and felt absolutely compelled to share. It’s a short but sweet take on gendered advertising — not hugely different from what our favorite lady Sarah Haskins does, but as one commenter noted, [...]
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Well gee, I think I’ll go get that pap smear after all
It’s not at all uncommon in this world to see advertising images that are some variation on the message that women are only good for ogling and fucking. But somehow it has a particular sting when the ad in question is supposed to be about why women’s lives matter. This image was posted on Sociological [...]
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