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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
Actual Cookies
For actual rewards for those people who commit one actual act of not being a sexist.
Those people do get a reward after all.
The cookies were made by 52 Acts and you can see the whole set here.
via Feministe.
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Tags: 52 Acts, Cookies, Feminism & Womanism, Feministe, Racism, Sexism
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
First, there was this advert from the US for a combination razor/bikini trimmer, the Schick Quattro Trimstyle for Women:
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Tags: Advertising, Beauty, Feminism & Womanism, Grooming, Quattro, Racism, Razors, Sexism, Shaving, Wilkinson Sword, 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
Just a little photo editing
Anyone who still wishes to believe that the photographs in women’s magazines, adverts, and so on bear any resemblance to reality should probably not watch this.
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Tags: Angela Merkel, Feminism & Womanism, Magazines, Paris Hilton, Photoshop, Women
Shamebagging
There’s a dedicated pharmacy in my town, but it’s a little out of my way. Usually, if I need something like shampoo, I get it from the supermarket or the homeware store next door, since I go there almost every day.
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Tags: Japan, Menstruation, Packaging, Shame, Shopping, Tampons
Jump-starting
On Tuesday morning, my car battery was completely flat.
It’s an old car, passed down through a whole bunch of people who only owned it for a couple of years, so I imagine the battery isn’t in great condition. Monday was a public holiday and I didn’t drive anywhere. And the last week or so has [...]
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Tags: Cars, Feminism & Womanism, Gender, Stereotypes, Women
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