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By jennab • 14 years ago

Why Jennifer’s Body Just Made Me Feel Uncomfortable (with spoilers)

I finally got around to seeing Jennifer’s Body this evening—even after all the negative hype, I was a little excited to see a film that featured the lines, “You’re killing people!”/ “No, I’m killing boys.”  Wow! I thought.  Now that’s different…

Of course, this conversation wasn’t actually in the movie.  Maybe they cut it to make room for the unscripted make-out scene between Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, which was clearly necessary to advance the “plot”. 

Writer Diablo Cody was going for some sort of feminist homage to the mean-girl teen movie plus the horror flicks she loves, and in my opinion failed miserably.  The relationship between Jennifer and Needy is not completely unbelievable, but is totally underdeveloped. Over at Jezebel, Dodai writes, “What if your best friend — who already thinks she can get any guy she wants — became an actual man-eater? While Jennifer was slightly under-developed as a character, it seemed like that was the point: She was a vain, slightly mean airhead before she turned into an evil creature, and, thanks to her indestructibility, became even more vain, cruel and drunk with power afterward.” 
By jennab • 14 years ago

“Get Off” This: Anti-Trafficking Ad Should Come With “CUT FOR TRIGGER” Warning

While perusing the Washington D.C. City Paper website, this ad, which links to the anti-trafficking organization Shared Hope International, popped up in the website header. 

First of all, the incredibly loaded, sexual phrase “GET OFF” used as a double entendre—meant literally that johns will not get off scot free legally, but also calling to mind “getting off” in a sexual context—is disgusting and in poor taste.  Really?  A sex pun in an anti-trafficking ad?

Also interesting and discomforting is the use of the second person address, which frames the broad Internet audience—anyone who views the ad—as a potential john, and, in the language of the ad, a sexual predator.  It also assumes a male audience, and focuses on deterrence through ...

While perusing the Washington D.C. City Paper website, this ad, which links to the anti-trafficking organization Shared Hope International, popped up in the website header. 

First of all, the incredibly loaded, sexual phrase “GET OFF” used ...
By jennab • 14 years ago

“Go Girl” : Marketing Girl Power

Samhita’s September 4th post on “Go Girl,” the product that allows female bodied folks to pee standing up, reminded me of another product called “Go Girl,” which I saw an advertisement for while on the road this summer. It was so bad that I had to take a picture. The bright pink poster advertised Go Girl Sugar Free Energy Drinks, tag line “Beautiful Energy.”

The poster featured three young, thin, feminine, able-bodied, light skinned women-on-the-go and a pink ribbon-50 cents from every 46 dollar case of Go Girl is donated to breast cancer research. The ad also offered the following information: Go Girl contains less than 3 calories, less than one gram of carbs, and “Super ...

Samhita’s September 4th post on “Go Girl,” the product that allows female bodied folks to pee standing up, reminded me of another product called “Go Girl,” which I saw an advertisement for while on the road ...