Archive for the 'Heh' Category
I take back everything bad I have ever said about American television news.
Brilliant.
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Tags: Bears, Cleveland, Heh, News
Happily ever after
More Target Women fun, and this time Sarah Haskins is making fun of adverts that assume all women want fairytale lives with happy endings. She features (amongst others) two adverts from the California Milk Processor Board that, while they may not be the worst ever made, are certainly the most sexist ads I’ve seen in [...]
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Tags: Advertising, Sarah Haskins, Target Women
I hate doing the laundry
And have accumulated a really quite large collection of underwear and socks to help me put it off as long as possible.
Luckily I have Sarah Haskins to remind me that I’m abnormal and that all women love laundry. At least that’s what the TV would have me believe.
It also reminds me that I [...]
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Tags: Advertising, Laundry, Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Women
One’s beautiful lady garden
Sarah Haskins works her magic again. Featuring some of the ads from this post!
(via Feministe.)
And in the same vein, The Onion. Do not read with coffee.
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Tags: Advertising, Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Women
Derailing for Dummies.
Anyone who spends more than thirty seconds reading comment sections on websites that aren’t devoted entirely to white straight able-bodied cisgender males will be familiar with tactics like these.
But it’s not just for the universally privileged. I consider myself part of some marginalised groups (for example, women), and I read a lot [...]
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Tags: Derailing for Dummies, Distractions, Feminism & Womanism, Privilege, Satire, Women
Surveillance-tastic!
I like the idea of kids familiarising themselves with situations, especially potentially confusing or upsetting ones, through play. And Playmobil is a company which has a really wide selection of situational stuff ranging from police officers to hospital sets to safecracking (I want my potential kids to know about all eventualities). Not to mention all [...]
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Tags: Airlines, Heh, Security, Surveillance, Toys
Like buses!
You wait ages for a new Target Women, and then two show up at once.
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Tags: Dieting, Sara, Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Women
Sarah Haskins’ spin on 2008
I really have to stop watching Target Women in the office. Even though I’m tucked away in the corner and no-one really cares what I get up to, I still feel bad when the whole office can hear my snorts of laughter.
(Linked because apparently I can’t embed videos in WordPress. Hmm.)
via The F-Word
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Tags: 2008, In the News, Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Women
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