Monthly Archives: December 2008
“No women’s bodies were exploited in this ad”
From Jezebel: France’s Eram has launched a series of ads featuring ostriches and a naked guy with a tagline that translates to, "no women’s bodies were exploited in this ad." This comes from the actual posting at Feminist Law Professors titled "Mocking Sexism or Mocking Feminism?". Check it out. What do you guys think?
Tagged Media 3 Comments
Sexist establishment coming to UCLA
Guess what is coming to my university? Yes! Carls Jr (i.e Hardees). Their Ads are made by a company named Mendelsohn Zien. I have emailed the student union (ASUCLA ) and I’m hoping they will respond. I think just complaining among ourselves doesn’t do anything. I wish there was a campaign to fight sexist ads [...]
Tagged Sexism 5 Comments
Go ahead. Reopen the debate. Just know you’re gonna lose.
A secretive Canadian pro-life Parliamentary caucus has decided, twenty years too late, that we need to reopen the debate on abortion . So far, however, it seems only one MP involved in the caucus, Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, has come out of the closet and publicly voiced his pro-life opinions: “Very few Canadians appreciate the [...]
Tagged Reproductive Rights 16 Comments
Harvey Milk Deserved A Better Film Than Van Sant’s Low-fat Biopic
Harvey Milk deserved a better film than this. Director Gus Van Sant’s hagiography remains true to the facts of its subject’s life while backing away from invoking the full-on, living color injustice, violence, passion, nerve, and sheer scruffy grassroots rage that fueled Milk and the emerging post-Stonewall Gay liberation movement. Not that it doesn’t try, [...]
Tagged Queer Issues 35 Comments
Fat people are ok…