Advertising: You’re Doing It Wrong
Dr. Pepper 10's ad campaign, centered around macho men and manliness, has already turned a lot of heads. Many people have already written about the ads and pointed out that they're clearly sexist to women. The video embedded below was added to their website on April 3rd, so it's only …
Who’s To Blame
Recently, politics and women has been a topic that seems to be everywhere. The Republicans are declaring a war on women. The Democrats are destroying women’s role. In all the hubbub, there was an article at Chronogram that took on a number of the subtopics embedded in this discussion: who’s …
Science Sunday: Fools for Science
Some of the best April Fool's Day pranks and hoaxes have been based in science and math. Discover magazine fooled numerous readers with its April 1999 article by Tim Folger about the recently discovered bigon particle, which appears and disappears within millionths of a second—and is the size of a …
What Does Media Mean to Me?
Recently I was lucky enough to get to see a screening of Miss Representation, a documentary about women’s representation in the media. I’m going to be honest and say I’m quite smitten with the movie, I could probably talk about it for hours, but I’m going to try to limit …
The Lorax Sells Cars
I was a little apprehensive about The Lorax coming to the big screen. I knew it would come with a slew of toys, figurines and other plastic, made-in-China, throwaway paraphernalia. I was not, however, prepared for it to be used by a car company to sell cars as being “Truffala Tree …
Iran to Bart: “No! You eat OUR shorts!”
Iran has recently decided to ban the sale of the Simpsons dolls but will continue to welcome Spiderman and other superheros because they “battle for the oppressed.” Is there something strange about Iran supporting characters that battle the oppressed, or is it just me?
Live metal?
There’s a mad scientist trying to create self-replicating cells out of metal! The search for other kinds of life is fascinating, but the last time there was news of non-carbon life forms it turned out to be bunk. If this man’s research is as cool as it sounds like it …
Not Cool, Libra
So Libra are were my brand of choice when it came to tampons and other sanitary products… that is until their latest incredibly transphobic ad campaign.