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By mmcp429 • 15 years ago

Tucker Max: (Un)feminist Guilty Pleasure?

Today I watched a trailer for Tucker Max‘s movie “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.” Instead of just focusing on the content, I want to tie the film to the larger topic of (Un)feminist guilty pleasures*. First, I’ll describe how while I mostly like feminist-friendly media now, my guilty pleasures tend to be things from my youth, and then I’ll go into how this trailer complicated that dichotomy. 

I tend to be fairly critical of the media I consume today, and if something strikes me as misogynistic, racist, homophobic, etc, it usually makes my skin crawl. However, it hasn’t always been this way. As an illustration, I’ll share a recent example. A few days ago I walked into the living ...

Today I watched a trailer for Tucker Max‘s movie “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.” Instead of just focusing on the content, I want to tie the film to the larger topic of (Un)feminist guilty pleasures*. ...
By mmcp429 • 15 years ago

Facebook Ads A Big, Fat Wrinkle For Some Users

I just listened to this story on NPR. It discusses how women (mainly older women) are removing their birth year because one woman realized that the ads she saw everyday on the social networking site were solely base on her age. As the author points out, "To them, I was just a fat, walking wrinkle waiting to be fixed."

I think this is brilliant because once their ages were removed, they were targeted by advertisers for key words in their profile, like an interest in science fiction.

I was wondering what people thought about this. Also, do guys experience the same kind of advertising stereotypes? If so, to what degree? Has the ability to vote on Facebook ads increased peoples ability ...

I just listened to this story on NPR. It discusses how women (mainly older women) are removing their birth year because one woman realized that the ads she saw everyday on the social networking site were ...
By mmcp429 • 15 years ago

He’s Angry, She’s PMSing

Newsweek posted a study yesterday about how people perceive emotions based on the sex of the individual. The study found that both men and women assume that men are emotional due to context (ex-someone cut him off in traffic, therefore he’s mad). On the other hand, people attribute women’s emotions to her disposition (ex: she’s upset because she’s just an emotional person). Sharon Begley (author of the Newsweek piece) explains that these perceptions have little scientific evidence to support them. Since people believe that women are more emotional, they make their assumptions about that belief. As she correctly explains, "What we believe is what we see."

Newsweek posted a study yesterday about how people perceive emotions based on the sex of the individual. The study found that both men and women assume that men are emotional due to context (ex-someone cut him ...