How to Look Like a Victoria’s Secret Angel
“How to be a Victoria’s Secret Angel” Jezebel’s banner teased. “Not that you can be one. You can’t,” ran the verdict following the hopeful headline. “What people don’t realize is that they’re rarer...
View ArticleGender-Bending Ads
What if you lived in a world where gender-as-we-know-it were switched? As you drive to work you see billboards with scantily clad men drawing your attention to products that they gracefully caress....
View ArticleLearning to Like Torture in Shades of Grey
What’s the appeal of Fifty Shades of Grey? As I’ve written before, release from power, fetishizing disempowerment, and random happenings may all play a part. Internalizing a culture that eroticizes the...
View ArticleVariety Is The Spice Of Life
Variety is the spice of life “Find fits for every body type,” the ad says. Hmmm, I see tall and skinny in the first frame. Tall and skinny in the second frame. Tall and skinny in the third frame. And...
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