June 18, 2013
Samantha Bee is a role model.
(Source: drunkonstephen, via knee-deepincameras)
from Drunk On Stephen
from HelloGiggles.com on TumblrPATTON OSWALT CHANGES MIND ON RAPE-JOKE DEBATE, RESTORES FAITH IN HUMANITY
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Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It’s freedom from fear. It’s the billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you’re doing is okay. You are okay. -- Donald Draper, Mad MenI’ve put together this collection of recent sexist advertisements from different companies. To be honest, it was difficult to pick the ones I wanted because there were so many of them. It was truly abhorrent.
Donald Draper explains to us what advertising is. Its a stroking of the ego. Sexism and patriarchy are rampant within society (advertising also touches on things like race, body size, and social class but for the purposes of this post I am focusing on those two), and thus advertising capitalizes on that, makes money on it, and perpetuates it. We’re surrounded by this kind of advertising. We can’t escape it, we’re trapped.
So when shopping or flipping through a magazine, or even driving down the high way and reading billboards, let’s all remember to put our critical thinking hats on and to identify and call out the sexism. Advertising is a significant contributor to the continued social injustices. But remember: those problems come to an end with us. If we stop responding to these advertisements the way the companies want us to, then some real reform can begin.
This was thoroughly disturbing…I used to think I’d never get in a frame of mind where I could always pick up on these kinds of things. Now I see them everywhere. I see it in kids shows, in commercials, in movies and everywhere really. It’s upsetting but in order to guard myself, and to guard my children against these messages, I must make myself aware, as painful as it is.
“Turning a person into a thing is almost always the first step in justifying violence against that person.”
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from The Feminist EffectThe Fountain (2006) - dir. Darren Aronofsky
together we will live forever.
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from something more than mockery.
The world is going through a crisis right now, it’s called ‘Severe Lack of Meryl Streep’
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from always the hours
