Liz Canner presents quite an interesting perspective in her documentary, Orgasm Inc. (available on Netflix) in February 2011. She dives into the science of the female orgasm and analyzes attempts from the pharmaceutical industry to quell so called female sexual dysfunction as she is hired for a drug trial for this “medicine.” Apparently, this is […]
Read More ORGASM INC.: A review!More specifically, if you’re complaining about being forced to talk or act ‘politically correct,’ you’re probably just a bigot and don’t want to admit it. I think of the sort of people who rely solely on racial, sexuality, and gendered based terms and ‘humor’ as every day conversation. This sort of person thinks it’s acceptable […]
Read More If You’re Arguing About PC, You’re Probably a BigotOn Sunday, The Telegraph confirmed that PETA—the animal rights campaign infamous for the exploitation of women in its advertising—is gearing up to launch a pornography site. Yep, that’s right, that’s no typo—PORN. It appears that PETA’s newest strategy to attract a fresh crowd of supporters is enticing browsers of the triple-X domain in order to […]
Read More Quick Hit: PETA Strikes AgainAs a feminist, I could spend hours bitching about the way the advertising industry exploits women by creating unattainable standards of beauty. But today, I’d like to take a different approach. In my History of Advertising course, we’ve been learning that in the early twentieth century, during the “first wave” of feminism, advertisers used suffrage […]
Read More Wanna hear a joke? Feminist advertisingI have been moving into my new apartment for three weeks. The unfinished project is not due to a lack of motivation, it’s just that I have so much stuff. I think my personal obsession with material objects began when I was six years old. My family moved from Oregon to Virginia, leaving most […]
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