Saw this meme over at Cara’s and as she doesn’t tag people, I’m just taking it. For those who have not been paying obsessive attention to the US election details, it’s a reference to how many homes the McCains own… Read More ›
consumerism
Plucked from the wire: blogs are dead, dancing boobies, detention debt, NSW health, and Oz net use
Blogging is dead, long live multimedia-sharing and Twitter Wired says blogs are dead. Blah blah linkbait, blah blah everyone’s on Twitter these days, blah blah. Read it if you can be bothered. Most amusing moment: the author complains that blogs… Read More ›
Mount Franklin Breast Cancer ads. Let’s start a Brown Colon Cancer Awareness campaign.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes comes from Mount Franklin, purveyors of pointless, wasteful, plastic-ridden, environmentally unfriendly bottled water. They’ve been doing the pink lids for a while,… Read More ›
Shoes, Remedial
It’s school holidays, so my blogging is light. Today’s post is entirely in pictures. Shoes. Not shoes.
Ad Standards Bureau agrees with Jim Beam that lesbianism is a “tragedy”.
In Jim Beam demonstrates just how much men want to hate us, I showed and talked about four sexist Jim Beam bourbon advertisements. The Advertising Standards Bureau has now responded to complaints about three of these television advertisements, and their… Read More ›
Feminism Friday and the twisted talking point de jour
And that talking point is: “If you truly support ALL women’s rights then you will get behind Sarah Palin and fight for her.” The news that a group of veteran feminist organisations have endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket (many of the… Read More ›
California Dairy Industry Tries to Trademark “Got Breastmilk?”
The California Milk Processor Board (also known as the CMPB or the California Fluid Milk Processor Advisory Board), home of the “Got Milk?” cow’s milk advertising campaign, is a collection of companies marketing cow’s milk and infant formula products in… Read More ›
I missed this – Fairfax totally losing the plot
They sacked Mike Carlton on Friday from his regular weekend column gig with the SMH because he refused to submit a column for publication while the journalists and editorial staff were on strike (in response to the announcement that 5%… Read More ›
Quick hit: Smoking ad history, from Lucky Strike to the Marlboro Man
The New England Journal of Medicine has a slideshow of 20th-century cigarette advertisements, with a commentary that reveals some of the marketing changes that took place as public awareness of the health damage from tobacco smoking grew. Allan Brandt Discusses… Read More ›
Why I’m Not Pleased, Sexual Objectification Edition
I had “Women should be pleased” [that men sexually objectify them] echoing in my ears when I visited Shakesville the other day. The first thing I saw was this Wrangler jeans ad.
[trigger warning]
Hoyden About Town 