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MK Feminist. A feminist critique of “cisgender” « Liberation Collective. Anita Sarkeesian’s TED talk and the predictable response » Lousy Canuck. This talk by Anita Sarkeesian at the TEDxWomen 2012 event was posted with its ratings and comments disabled.

While ordinarily I would consider that the mark of an attempt to stifle debate, this was done because she is the target of an ongoing hate campaign because she’s a woman talking about sexism in a traditionally male-dominated territory: video games. The comments and downvotes would wreck this talk’s chances of being seen, normally. In this case, knowing that she’d be censored by the same haters she’s talking about, I’m okay with disabling the ratings and comments. Marketing, Advertising and Social Media News With Attitude by Steve Hall. AdWeek doesn't like the new Miller High ads and neither do we.

While Gabriel Beltrone does an exquisite job of explaining why the ads suck, we'll be more blunt. They come off like some copywriter's hipsterific dream of cool as defined by a sort of fuck you sensibility to the fact losers who drink Miller High Life can't afford to get out of the pool hall and make something of themselves. Rather, they'd prefer to spew a stereotypically Millennial "I don't give a shit" tonality -- with "we're so cool we're in black and white" 'tude no less -- that just wants to make you punch Rich for his lame attempt at wry wit and self-importance. Marketing, Advertising and Social Media News With Attitude by Steve Hall - Adrants.

Creative Advertising Archive & Community. Women's history, family law, politics, children's issues, education, religion, and psychology. Lili Loofbourow's Big Face of Pretended Learning. “Cultural scavengers”: Violentacrez, Reddit, and trolls. Trigger warning: sexual violence and rape culture, racism, misogyny, online harassment, suicide. The Ethical Adman. Can you raise breast cancer awareness without even showing women?  #Pinkverts. Posted by Tom Megginson | 9-10-2012 20:19 | Category: Pinkverts [Image via Saudi Women to Drive Facebook page] Åsk, at Adland, made me aware of this breast cancer month poster from Saudi Arabia.

Hot on the heels of IKEA’s PR disaster last week, when it was found that all women had been Photoshopped out of its Saudi catalogue, this campaign has emerged from the murk of the internet. Åsk notes: This isn’t an easy topic in Saudi, where women are in many cases controlled by men as they have fewer legal rights overall in the country, and the culture itself is male-dominated to the extreme. There is also video, on YouTube: It appears to be a campaign in which men show their support and approval for women getting checked. It’s interesting to compare this to the men‘s breast cancer campaign in the UK that featured a fully-clothed man cavorting with a bevy of bouncing, topless women. If I had to choose between sexist societies, however, I’d still pick the one where women speak for themselves. Name It. Change It. Facials, feminism, & performance: On f**king men in a patriarchy. As feminists, sleeping with men is always going to be a little fraught.

Not getting to the actual act, per se – jumping into bed with people we feel like jumping into bed with can be pretty straightforward – rather the politics surrounding feminists having sex with men within the context of a patriarchy as well as, of course, the maintenance of a sexual relationship with a man in the long-term. Applying the phrase, ‘the personal is political’, seems particularly difficult when we are talking about an act that can be very private and very personal. Certainly sex is one of those things that can make us feel extremely vulnerable.

[GUEST POST] The Omniscient Breasts by Kate Elliot. Kate Elliott is the author of the Spiritwalker Trilogy (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, and the forthcoming Cold Steel), the Crossroads Trilogy, the Crown of Stars septology, and the Novels of the Jaran.

She lives in Hawaii. Thanks to Charles Tan for advice on this post. The Omniscient Breasts: The Male Gaze Through Female Eyes My reading experience of fantasy & science fiction over forty years is that it is mostly written with the male gaze. In Our Words. With Love. Still here. Feminist Armchair Regime. Black Girl Dangerous (How To Be A Reverse-Racist: An Actual Step by Step List For Oppressing White People) Not in the Kitchen Anymore. Fat, Ugly or Slutty. Feminist Boyfriend. The Voice of Heard. In recent years, the video game industry and community has experienced both good news and bad news.

But no bad news is more significant than the recent announcement that G4 TV, a television channel originally geared towards a young gamer audience, is to become the Esquire Network, which is geared toward a more “sophisticated meterosexual male” audience, by late April this year. ( Note: the term ‘meterosexual’ is used to describe an urban modern-day heterosexual man who is mostly concerned [and perhaps even obsessed] with his personal appearance, which is reflected by the amount of time and money spent on the most fashionable clothes, the best beauty treatments, and the most fastidious grooming his money can buy.)

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