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Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?
We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, advertisement, advertising, alternative & punk, big business, campaign, common, conformity, consumerism, diy, materialism, politics, vandal, vandalism.
Tags: advertising, aesthetic, agenda, art collective, billboard, brazil, capitalism, consumerism, corporate influence, corporate interests, corporations, delicatessen, diy, do it yourself, emilythestrange, jean-pierre jeunet, marc caro, materialism, movement, nate the great and the lost list, oprah, politics, punk, self help, self-esteem, selling out, strange, terry gilliam, the church of just stop shopping, the school of practical philosophy, vandalism
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"You Can Pry My Guns From My Cold, Dead Hands . . ."
“. . . but that’ll be hard, because they’re attached,” deadpans Sarah Haskins. While Haskins not actually the same person as Olympic triathelete Sarah Haskins, she is nonetheless a superhero for our age. Haskin’s show Target Women on Current TV is an answer to ObviousMan. Here’s a lady who can dissect our news media’s obsession [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2009 under Comedy, advertisement, advertising, comic, commercial, consumer whore, consumerism, humor, weight loss, woman, women.
Tags: comedian, Comedy, commentary, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, current tv, femininity, feminism, glade, guns, laundry detergent, Media, michlle obama, obviousman, orgasm, sarah haskins, second city, superhero, target women, Tina Fey, triathlete, triceps
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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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Figure It Out: The Truth about the Perfect Body
Are women’s magazines bad for women? It might seem like a stupid question. But when, as the New York Times reports, a University of Missouri study “found that looking at women’s magazines for 1-3 minutes had a negative impact on women’s self esteem. So imagine what happens if we’re bombarded by these images every day.” [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Media, Self Objectification, advertisement, advertising, agency, airbrushing, beauty, bodies, body image, gender, internalized oppression, make up, makeup, mass-produced, materialism, mental health, model, objectification, physical health, physical perfection, politics, popular culture, power, power dynamic, power structure, racism, reality, self, self acceptance, self image, self-esteem, self-loathing, sex, sexuality.
Tags: ads, advertising, advertizing, airbrushing, beauty, body image, france, health, keats, magazines, mental health, physical health, power, reality, retouching, self-esteem, steroids, truth, ugliness
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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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