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A few weeks ago, I posted an essay on the community forum about my displeasure with advertising’s Madonna/whore representation of women ("Tide is In…"), and some comments after the piece argued that advertising simply reflect society as it is, that society has to change before advertising changes.

I think the discussion is an important one to have, which led me to later interview Jean Kilbourne and GenderAds.com founder Dr. Scott A Lukas, and others, for an article I wrote that explores what effect, if any, the media and advertising have on the way society views and treats women. What prompted the piece was an earlier article in the paper I worked for that referred to a slave owner as a "pimp."

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…and sexless Moms are, at least partially, on the way out.
You know the sexless Moms I’m talking about. They wear boxy V-necks over button-shirts with doily-collars, or pink-tan sweaters hanging hip-length over baggy pants. They have faces you’ll forget the moment they turn their heads. Commercial moms aren’t really women; they don’t have sex, they rarely look feminine, and if they do, it’s in a matronly way. It’s also better if they aren’t attractive – if they were, if their hair bounced and flowed and if they had breasts and identifiable waists (or any shape at all), they would have something much better to do than to fall on their hands and knees to scrub the toilet base screw-joints, ...