Tag Archives: Advertising
Edmonton’s new rape prevention ads should be everywhere
TweetThe Edmonton police department is out with more anti-rape posters that are just as good as the first ones they released a couple years ago. Between Edmonton’s efforts, the recent ads from Men Can Stop Rape, and those Scottish ads from a couple years ago, there are plenty of examples of how to create an anti-rape [...]
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Quick Hit: McKenna Pope’s crusade for gender neutral advertising of Easy Bake Ovens
Tweet13 -year-old McKenna Pope is seeking to break the gender paradigm in advertising, starting a petition to get Hasbro, the maker of the Easy Bake Oven to redesign its product packaging and advertising to include boys. Sparked by her little brother’s love to “cook,” Pope responded to her brother’s questioning why the commercial only features [...]
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Because your intelligence hasn’t been insulted enough already in this campaign
TweetI am obviously voting for Paul Ryan’s ticket, because the guy is totally dreamy. Sure, his fiscal policies are mathematically nonsensical at best and socially unjust at worst, and he thinks I should be left die in the ER if I need a life saving abortion but the doctors don’t believe in the procedure. But [...]
A note on our advertising
TweetYou may have recently noticed some changes to the advertising on Feministing, which is part of our work to more effectively monetize the site. We are still getting used to the new system and set up and as a result, some offensive ads have been getting through recently. Sorry for that and thanks to those [...]
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Drycleaner puts “choose life” message on their…coat hangers