This Racialicious project turns the annoying Canadian Club Whiskey ads from this: Basically, they are appealing to men who miss the days (whether or not they were born yet) of grabbing the asses of their secretaries, playing a few rounds at the all-white private golf club, and then going home to their wives, the happy [...]
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More of something like this, please: via Dooce
May the Lord Bless Ad Filtering Software
Published February 12th, 2008 in Advertising, Blogging, Feminism and Racism. 3 CommentsPart of my lingering responsibilities for Feministe is putting together their new ad content. This has been a personal challenge — because if you surf the internet like I do the only time you click on an ad is on accident. It is a necessary evil, seeing that the hosting service was becoming increasingly unreliable [...]
A Lesson in Content and Distribution
Published August 29th, 2007 in Advertising, Business, Consume, Entertainment, Indiana, Sports and Technology. 3 CommentsThe Big Ten Network debuts tomorrow, piquing the interest of many a Midwestern college sports fan. The Big Ten Network is a subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is decidedly evil and way too rich for his own good, in partnership with the Big Ten universities. The network plans to carry all kinds of [...]
Baby Einstein Videos Don’t Work
Published August 15th, 2007 in Advertising, Children, Consume and Education. 3 CommentsDisney is in an uproar demanding a retraction on a University of Washington study that their Baby Einstein videos don’t advance children’s learning development, and in fact “infants who watched DVD’s and videos designed for babies understood fewer words than did infants who didn’t watch the recorded programs.” No news yet on whether Disney will [...]
Know what’s real smart? Riding your bike with your eyes closed. Or whatever she’s doing. This ad from the Allergan Medical Silicone-Filled Breast Implants (note trademark symbol) is most ironical, since breasts are neither smart, nor do they make the wearer (implantee?) more intelligent. Even more mystifying is that her breast implants, the entire point [...]
He’s Got Mr. Leggs, And He Knows How To Use Them
Published April 19th, 2007 in Advertising, Assholes, Dudes and Feminism. 6 CommentsAt least today’s ads for young, hip bachelors are more covert about their misogyny (most of the time). (larger image) via Erica Barnett
Things You Find in the Garage
Published March 31st, 2007 in Advertising, Asides, Stuff and Suburbia. 5 CommentsI want to know why the previous homeowner had this.
Entertain yourselves by browsing Ads of the World. Some are pretty, some bizarre, and some amazingly misogynist.
Magical Negro Strikes Again?
Published February 28th, 2007 in Advertising, Entertainment, Movies, People and Religion. 17 CommentsObviously I haven’t seen “Black Snake Moan” yet, but I can’t get away from the buzz today. Several bloggers I respect are writing about the website and the trailers (see here in particular), and a particularly nasty discussion about the movie posters has erupted at Salon. It’s the interview with director Craig Brewer at Salon [...]
For Rap Cat: Who cares about the food, I just know I’m in for hours of Dougly training.
Nooooooooo! Cheese is to be treated as junk food under new advertising rules for children’s television. Commercials promoting it will be banned during children’s TV programmes and those with a large proportion of young viewers. The rules, which come into force this month, are part of a Government drive to reduce children’s exposure to foods [...]
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