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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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"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor
There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2008 under ad, ads, advertisement, big business, campaign, commerce, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, consumerism, culture, dinosaur comics, don hertzfeld, get your war on, humor, materialism, offbeat, product, rejection, toothpaste for dinner, whore.
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Missy Elliot & Work it, Or, I Need to Shave My Chocha so You'll Eat It Like a Vultcha
In her track “Work It,” Missy Elliot offers a wise approach to the objectification-heavy world of commercial hip hop: “I’m not a prostitute, but I can give you what you want.” The hit single “Work It” both employs the blatant objectification of women (with images, in the video, of women bending over in hootchie shorts [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2007 under Chinese, Kunta Kinte, Lil' Kim, Massah, Missy Elliot, Puerto Rican, Timbaland, Work It, artist, ass, black, blunt, bodunkadunkdunk, chocha, commercial, culture, cunnilingus, dichotomy, drunk, female, gender, gender equality, hair did, hip hop, hootchie, ladies, lyric, male, minuteman, misogynistic, molestation, musician, nails done, objectification, pastor, pop, proposition, prostitute, pubic hair, pubic hair grooming, respect, respect me, reverse, risque, sexual objectification, shame, shave, slave, song, this is not a test, vulture, white.
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"G.s Up, Hos Down, While You Muthafuckahs . . . Seek Gender and Racial Equality"
I just got back from NYC’s incarnation of the Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend, where I was struck by the ways that the mainstream, commercial hip hop scene differs from the “underground” or “conscious” hip hop scene that I stood for hours in mud and pouring rain to dance [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under A Girl Named You, ATLiens, Andre, Andre 3000, Atmosphere, Bag Lady, Benzi Box, Best Buy, Brooklyn Masala, Brother Ali, Brown Skin Lady, CunninLynguists, Cypress Hill, Dead Prez, Eminem, Erykah Badu, Forest Whitaker, G, Gin and Juice, Hey Ya, Immortal Technique, MF DOOM, Masta Ace, Mos Def, Outkast, Psalm One, Rage Against the Machine, Rhymesayers, Rjd2, Sage Francis, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, The Light, agency, artist, audience, authenticity, bikini, bitch, black, blog, clitoral stimulation, clitoris, commercial, common, conscious, culture, cunnilingus, dance, dancer, exploitative, expression, fan, festival, fish and grits, future, gat, gender, go-go, heads down, hip hop, ho, hum, identity, independent, indie, individual, irony, island, label, love making, lovemaking, lover, mainstream, making love, marijuana, mass-produced, masturbation, men, message, mind sex, money, mother, motherfucker, mud, music, nigga, nonsense, objectification, pimp, polaroid, political, politics, produce, produced, prostitution, race, rain, randall, randall's, rap, rapper, rhyme, security, self acceptance, self-produced, sex, sincerity, sister, stereotype, stereotypes, sugar, talent, underground, women.
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Hey, Boys!
So I spent this evening hanging out with my brother watching NBA final game three, and I wound up spending more time thinking about men and masculinity, and how their gender roles confine them as individuals as well. A commentator pointed out that Gibson’s choice to pass instead of shooting made this a game of [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under Cynthia Cooper, NBA, WNBA, basketball, brother, commercial, feminism, feminists, gender, gender power, gender roles, homoeroticism, masculinity, myfaves, sports, t-mobile, women's rights.
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