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The Reality of "RealAge": Big Business meets Big Brother?
So you’ve probably heard about Ghostnet, the mysterious online spying network. But have you considered the degree to which your online activity is monitored by big business? I don’t just mean those ads on the side of your Gmail account that spontaneously advertise garden gnomes when you talk about your short hippie friend. I mean [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under HIV, Research, advertisement, advertising, advertising copy, big business, brazil, consumer, corporate greed, drug, drug culture, drugs, human rights, humanism, humanity, manipulation, marketing, medical, medicine.
Tags: ads, advertisement, aids, aids drugs, big pharma, brazil, development, disease, doctors, drug, drug companies, drug company, drug industry, fortune 500, generic, ghostnet, gmail, government, hippie, hippocratic oath, marketing, medicine, patented, pharmaceuticals, pigeons, profits, realage test, Research, snake oil, WHO
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Price of Freedom:Heteronormativity & Human Blood, $399 and up
I keep seeing this bumper sticker everywhere that says “Freedom isn’t free.” I would paste it here, but if you’ve been in the U.S. recently in the daytime and you have decent vision or corrective lenses, you’ve probably seen it, too. The idea that freedom has to be bought, or that the possession of symbolic [...]
Posted: June 5th, 2007 under Blood Diamond, Cameron Diaz, Che Guevara, DeBeers, Debra Messing, Female Sexuality, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gloria Steinham, In Style, Interrobang, Jane Russell, Jesus, Marie Claire, Marilyn Monroe, Pond's, Sarah Jessica Parker, Satanic, Sierra Leone, USA Network, Vogue, advertising, advertising copy, agency, bling, camp, capitalism, cocktail ring, confidence, conflict diamond, death, diamond ring, diamonds are a girl's best friend, empowerment, engagement ring, fad, family, fashion, femininity, financial independence, free, freedom, gay marriage, heteronormative, heteronormativity, homophobia, homosexuality, human dignity, ideological reproduction, jewelry, marketing, murder, mutilation, pop culture, poverty, power, psychographics, psychology, right hand diamond ring, right-handed, self, self image, slaves, status, symbolism, synthetic diamond, trend, violence, war.
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Rapist Bags! Hilarious!
As Shakesville puts it, “Note to Timbuk2: If a man “steals” a woman’s virginity, it’s called rape. Even if it is “prom night” or whatevthefuck an underage-looking girl in a tacky party dress is meant to represent.” Ok, so I am thoroughly disappointed in Timbuk2. I really thought they were about something beyond the [...]
Posted: May 30th, 2007 under Comedy, Timbuk2, advertising, advertising copy, bad boy, blogging, casual sex, double standard, exploitation, fashion photography, fucking, gender, hipster, hymen, love, rape, rape victim, virginity.
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