In a refreshing twist on marketing, The Floor by O! is offering a deal on alcohol for a largely ignored consumer population: lepidopterists and their pets. So all you butterfly lovers and breeders, bring your pretty insects down to the Floor for a free drink and some good ol' retro hindwing wiggling and proboscis shaking. Incidentally, the Floor by O! ...
No Country for Women is a compilation by Transhuman Collective of how women are represented in Bollywood movies and the Indian media, juxtaposed against real incidents of harassment of women. If such a compilation of Sri Lankan television and movies were done, what could we learn about how our culture perceives respect, sexual entitlement, violence and harassment?
When Revati sent us this website we couldn't help but laugh; derisively of course, not because we found it funny. What, we wondered, could this website be about? Is this young, seemingly naked girl searching the interwebs for a "quickee"? Is she doing her homework, perhaps, and needs some urgent help with a math problem? Apparently not. It's a delivery ...
This classy set of ads by the now defunct Rize bar wants to make sure you know that when it comes to women and alcohol, nudity, sex and submission are the accompanying appetizers. It appears that the Rize marketing team would like to simultaneously offer complimentary drinks to women while insulting them. Apart from perpetuating a tired stereotype that women ...
Jean Kilbourne's documentary series, Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women , explores the portrayal of women in advertising and its link to themes of objectification, violence, body image and health impacts. The documentaries have been updated 3 times since the first version came out in 1979, and are no less horrific today. Women's bodies have become the easiest ...
Thank you to Rossana who sent this advertisement in to us with the following comment:Just found your blog while searching for sexism and inclusive language. The ad I refer to- Zesta BOPF- is one that clearly violates the principle of pertinence in advertising. The discussion is interesting regarding this issue. We feminists do not want to kill creativity but ...
This blog is run by a group of people who are tired of being bombarded with sexist images and innuendo in our daily lives. No matter where we look, the internet, media, billboards and magazines seem set on perpetuating archaic gender stereotypes as well as creating new, even more damaging ones.We have started this blog as a place to ...
