Woman’s Last Stand: Dodge Charger Commercial Spoof
A snarky response to that Dodge Charger Superbowl ad.
I don’t think these kinds of gender-based generalizations do anybody any favors — but I think that’s why this works as a good response to the people behind the Dodge commercial: it turns the tables to point out how ridiculous and demeaning the original advertisement actually was.
The rhetoric around Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign has been bugging me, but I haven’t been quite able to put my finger on it until I read this.
Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos
‘Cougar,’ for the three people still blissfully unaware, is a slang term applied to women who date younger men. Men who date younger women, on the other hand, are typically described with a slightly less loaded term: “men.Jamison Foser: Really, MSNBC?
A blogger finds success after pulling a Bronte and publishing under a male pseudonym
Today, Men with Pens blogger James Chartrand revealed that “he” is actually a lady with a laptop. After working under her real name for years, Chartrand was still struggling to make it as a freelance writer. Not only was her income negligible, but “I was treated like crap, too. Bossed around, degraded, condescended to, with jibes made about my having to work from home. I quickly learned not to mention I had kids. I quickly learned not to mention I worked from my kitchen table.” Out of desperation, she started submitting work under a male pseudonym, just to see if it made a difference. And boy, did it ever.
Kate Harding, awesomely deconstructing stupid beauty memes.Two minutes of Googling phrases like “favorite female role models” yielded answers including: Oprah, Nancy Pelosi, Tina Fey, Waris Dirie, Shirley MacLaine, Dame Judi Dench, Queen Elizabeth, President of Argentina Cristina Kirchner, and J.K. Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres, twice each.
But if men aspire to sleep with 22-year-old women who can pass for teenagers, and women aspire to be 51-year-old lesbian talk show hosts, we’re at an impasse. So it’s much simpler if we just tell women what they chiefly want to be is attractive to straight men, over and over, until they internalize it.
PETA has always been a bunch of assholes, but at this point it’s starting to look like the animal rights stuff is totally incidental to the overarching goal of portraying women as servile, oversexed (irony alert!) meat-puppets. I don’t think they really oppose meat-eating. They just want to replace the cows and chickens with hot, horny college sluts.
It’s almost that time again: The one day of the year when women are allowed to express their true sexiness, and men are freed to dress like giant penis jokes. As Halloween approaches, costume manufacturers are struggling to produce new sexy/penis concepts to satisfy all the sexy/penis demands of sexy/penis-loving Americans. Sure, it’s refreshing to finally find an industry committed to producing low-quality merchandise meant to encourage women to be extremely sexy, and men to be sexually immature.
Wes Anderson. Tilda Swinton. David Lynch. All rape defenders. Heartbreaking.
Now someone needs to start a list of people in Hollywood who believe that being convicted of raping a child deserves incarceration.
The larger problem is that mainstream environmental publications like Treehugger see environmentalism as a compartmentalized “issue” that has nothing to do with women’s rights. In that view, exploiting women’s bodies is bad, unless, of course, it’s for a “good green cause.” Then it’s just “using sex” to sell environmentalism—and who could disagree with that? I mean, what are you, a prude?
The other “Angry Green Girls” videos show bikini-clad women lathering up Priuses and “rejecting” men who don’t happen to drive hybrids—the subtext being that if you choose the right car, these women will be sexually available to you. Here, the message is that women are objects to be obtained through the right male behavior—no different, really, than suggesting that if you buy her dinner, she’d better put out.
