Tag Archives: Advertising
Dr. Pepper 10 response more patronizing than ad
TweetRemember a certain soft drink company that decided the best way to peddle their low-calorie sugar water was with an ad campaign that proclaimed “It’s not for women” and “No girls allowed”? Well reader Katharine, like many people, wrote in to complain, and the auto-response she received from the company was, incredibly, more condescending and [...]
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Norway considers disclaimers on retouched ads
TweetNorway’s equality minister is pushing for advertisers to begin disclosing when their billboards have been retouched. The goal is to create “warning labels” that will help consumers, and particularly young people, distinguished between digitally altered images and unaltered ones. Making the connection between unrealistic images of women’s bodies in advertising and poor body image in [...]
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The feminist blog revolution will be paid
TweetCourtney published a vital article in The Nation yesterday about the feminist internet’s money problem. I highly recommend giving it a read if you’re at all interested in the future of feminist organizing. Online organizing is like the “women’s work” of the feminist movement – it takes an incredible amount of time and energy, it’s [...]
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23 flavors of sexism
TweetWriting about bullshit sexist advertising on a feminist blog can be tricky. On the one hand, bullshit sexism makes me mad. So I want to condemn it, shame it, and deconstruct it to take away whatever power it might have developed in the course of its million-dollar-ad-campaign life. On the other hand, we’ve all heard [...]
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Quick hit: Why are all those movie trailers voiced by men?