Post-It Joins Man-Boy Movement

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I received this as a forward yesterday with the message, “This is how a real man uses post-its.” It reminds me of oldie-but-goody Lakshmi Chaudry’s “Men Growing Up To Be Boys,” where she talks about consumer culture literally consuming more traditional concepts of manhood and spitting out a man-child.
So move over, beer commercials and manly meat ads; we’ve now entered the realm of sexist stationary. Sigh.
NOTE: We have found out that this is, in fact, a joke and not an actual post-it ad. At the same time, the fact that this is being disseminated very widely still perpetuates the same confused notions of American masculinity/man-boyhood we find in our everyday commercials and magazine ads. But we are glad to find that that Post-It has not taken part in it.

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