Hello Readers! Welcome to our third installment of Behind Your Back. Below is a list of posts that we have enriched during the month of June without telling you. Enjoy!
We added a commerical (found at Feministe) to our post featuring an ad using a male-to-female transgendered person to sell a epilator to women. The commercial is really interesting, as is Holly’s interpretation of why it’s problematic.
The evolving controversy over the Obama Sock Monkey toy led us to make a few updates on our post. If you didn’t notice, the company making the toy aggressively revoked its apology and we’re pretty sure they’re still selling it. Check it out here.
For contrast, we added the posters from the Terminator Trilogy to our post on how female heroines were represented in posters for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, as well as some more images portraying the heroines in The Sarah Connor Chronicles differently and some that feminize John Connor.
We added a Greenpeace video targeting Unilever to this post about Dove and Axe ads. The video shows how the American beauty industry that is hurting American girls’ self-esteem is destroying the environment of other girls’ lives. It’s pretty great.
We found a particularly egregious Nebraska Wakeboard ad and added it to another objectifying ad for shoes.
We added an image showing the actual caption to this post about FOX News referring to Michelle Obama as a “baby mama.”
Matt S. sent us three more PETA posters and a video featuring Alicia Silverstone showing how how PETA sexualizes women in its anti-fur campaigns. See it here (scroll down).
We found another ad using sex to sell homes and home-related products. We added it to some others here.
Yikes. P.J. sent us another doozy from Axe (also sold as Lynx in some countries).
We added a commercial illustrating the bizarreness of yogurt advertising articulated in this post.
Laura L. found another ad that trivalizes women’s rejection of men’s attention. This Noxzema ad implies that women really like to be catcalled on the street, even if they appear not to.
And we added a fashion ad to this post about ads that use ambiguous images that could imply consensual sex or sexual assault. Thanks again to Laura L.!
Finally, we added another sexualized image of Condoleezza Rice–as Lara Croft–to this post about differences in how Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton are portrayed.
Don’t forget to check out who links to us! And if we’re on your blogroll and aren’t on the list, make sure to send us a note!
Happy July!
Comments 2
MW — July 2, 2008
>aggressively revoked it’s apology
>in it’s anti-fur campaigns.
Psssst...no apostrophe is needed when you are making the possessive of "it." The possessive of "it" is just "its."
That said, this Behind Your Backs feature really enriches your site. Keep up the good work making this a valuable resource for sociological students, pop culture aficionados, feminists, etc.
Lisa Wade, PhD — July 2, 2008
Sheesh. 12 1/2 years of college and some things I still can't get right. Thanks, MW! Fixed!
And we're glad you enjoy the blog!