Women and “women” in advertising. A touch dated in presentation (“they now use computer imaging to make fake women!”) but the ads – and the messages – are still the same. (it’s all good, but be sure to check out the Special K ad at the end)
“Come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean, am I tough, organized? I CAN’T EVEN BALANCE MY CHECKBOOK.”– Sarah Conner, The Terminator I have a love/hate relationship with the Sarah Conner of the first Terminator movie. Part of me wants her to be the same tough, kick ass heroine you
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Gone are the days of the $14.99 haircut. I started spending a fortune on my hair after 1) going to Supercuts for the 3rd time in three weeks trying to get them to fix the mullet they’d given me 2) getting dumped – for the second time – by the guy I was dating here
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Man goes on long road trip with a motorcyle in the back of his van. Makes out with various women along the way named after flowers. In the end, he gets a not-very-good blowjob from his dead ex (yes, he has lovely boy parts, but it just wasn’t worth an hour and twenty minute road
In honor of Wiscon, here’s an oldie but a goodie: “I Know Lesbians, and Lesbians Don’t Act Like This”: Or, I Don’t Speak for all the Mostly Straight White Girls in America Who Eat Apple Pie and: Why Writing Colorblind is Writing White (a rant)
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” — Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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My war propaganda love continues….
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“Our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation, and more generally, that an individual’s sexual orientation like a person’s race or gender does not constitute a legitimate basis
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Did it. (though the coverage, as always, has to make mention of her looks. Do guys who make big achievements always have stories that include notations on their looks? Puleez).