In the previous posts Critiquing “Feminist” Marketing (Part 1) and Critiquing “Feminist” Marketing (Part 2), we discussed changes in and repercussions of mass media’s co-opt of the “feminist” message, and we examined the overt versus subliminal concepts inherent in each. Now we move…
In the previous post Critiquing “Feminist” Marketing (Part 1), we compared the messages between a current Verizon ad and a Nike ad from the mid-’90s. While the overt messages inherent in ads that speak to women have changed over the…
The messages inherent in the ads that speak to women have changed over the years. While we do still have plenty of housewifely cleaning product ads, recent years have seen more modern interpretations of the female experience. Some have been…
Brittany Hunt @ The Miscellany News has posted a hilarious piece, How to Date a Women’s Studies Major: Just Don’t, about the pitfalls of dating radfems. While I don’t necessarily agree with with everything in the piece, the serious points she…
Okay, enough is enough. I’ve simply had it with inappropriately-included, Photoshopped-to-better-than-life female models on magazine covers, most specifically when the magazines in question have nothing to do with making women appear more attactive. (Yes, beauty magazines suck, too, but that’s a…
Stumbled upon while wandering the wilds of the WWW . . . [Source: Evolution of the Lady Action Hero] While I will be forever torn between Ripley and Trinity as my favorite, I’d like to find out about your favorites…
I sometimes use Google Suggest as entertainment. This find was not so entertaining. Since it’s not just one single hermit in a cabin in the woods in Wisconsin using Google, more people than I’d like to consider are infected all…
We recently introduced you to a disgusting full-page Woman’s Day magazine ad in Want a Raise? Wash Your Vulva, Dammit! (Part 1). As promised, here’s the follow-up . . . now that I’m clear-headed enough to write it. Let’s start from…
Joan M Bunney We recently wrote about how we met and will shortly be introducing the work of Hattie Retroage here at TJP. When we initially contacted and introduced TJP to Hattie, we had no way of knowing that she…
Male friend trident5 kicked a DemocraticUnderground link my way with the comment, “I am wholly unqualified to offer an opinion on this.” Kowing him, I was expecting to find something nerdy/political and bizarre enough that he, one of my Nerd Flock, would…
Cultural Dissidence 