thanks again alternet! below, an excerpt from sex pill for women article: Even though Boynton declined, Boehringer-Ingelheim invited her to write a paper for the British Journal of Sexual Medicine. “They had clear instructions about what they wanted me to say and how this would set the scene that HSDD was a prevalent and distressing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
sex pill for women: big pharma trying to profit from another made-up illness?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, exploitation, pharmaceuticals, power, sex, sexuality on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Representations of Sex/uality
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, brown university, exploitation, feminism, gender, images, language, media, objectification, power, relationships, sex, sexism, sexualization on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Or, alternatively titled: “Making the Brown Sex Week 2010 Poster” (This is a cross-post from the SHEEC blog/my blog) My goals were that the poster: Wouldn’t imply a certain relationship status Wouldn’t be objectifying and just like any other ad on TV Wouldn’t be heteronormative (and ideally not homonormative, either, which is…not easy to do–most [...]
Lose the blubber? More like lose the douchebaggery.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, animal rights, beauty, body image, fatphobia, gendered insults, media, objectification, PETA, sexism, shaming, vegetarianism on August 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dear PETA: Sometimes you have pretty cool campaigns. Sometimes you miss the mark entirely and produce crap like this. I don’t know who thought “YES, this is a great idea! Let’s use one of the most derogatory words for fat women and put it on a HUGE billboard and imply that women are whales that [...]
