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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
April last year: This fascinating Italian anti-immigrant poster suggests that, if immigration to Italy is allowed, immigrants will persecute the native Italians like U.S. colonizers did American Indians. It’s a pretty amazing tactic.
NEWLY ENRICHED POSTS (bottom of post may not be safe for work!):
Total Drek revised an xkcd cartoon on the difference between causation and correlation. So we added it to our original post.
Sex sells ‘n stuff:
Sarah Haskins makes fun of euphemistic references to female genitalia. We added her video to our post on our efforts to avoid using the real terms.
Related to discomfort with women’s genitalia, Taylor D. sent in a link to even more vintage ads for Lysol as a douche, which we added to this post.
We added a vintage ad to our sex sells post. This one tells men that if they don’t buy Firestone tires, they won’t get laid. Women? Well I guess they don’t drive.
Also in sex sells, we updated our post on the sexualization of food, this time with a Max Factor ad and a not-to-be-missed Hardee’s commercial featuring Padma Lakshmi having quite the sensual experience with a bacon burger (scroll all the way to the bottom).
We also added another image to our post with examples of sex as “scoring.”
Now to sperm: We added three more images affirming the idea that we were all once a mighty sperm (eggs, apparently, just add nutrition, if that) to this post on the weird ways in which sperm are socially constructed. In one of them, a condom ad suggests that one condom could have prevented the holocaust by dressing a sperm up as Hitler. Another example dates back to the beginning of the idea in 1694.
On race and ethnicity:
We added material to two posts in our series on how and why people of color are included in ads aimed at white people. First, we added a set of photographs taken by Joshua B. at Office Max to our post showing how people of color are often portrayed as being more, eh em, colorful. Second, we added an image to our post on how people of color are literally background or arranged so that the focal point (visually or through action) is the white person or people in the ad.
We added images of sculptures that comically/stereotypically (depending on your point of view) represent European countries to this post about stereotyping nationalities. The installation was supposedly by 27 different artists, but it turns out to be a hoax; all of them were created by a single Czech artist.
Also in ethnic stereotypes, we added a cartoon from Life magazine suggesting that monkeys are insulted by being given Irish names. We added it to our collection of anti-Irish sentiment from the 1800s.
And visit this post to see our newest example of using the notion of the “savage” to sell in the 1950s.
Miguel sent us an image of a “White” Obama, which we added to our post that asks “What do Black and White look like, anyway?”
Philip D. sent us a set of Crown Royal ads that reportedly target a “general” and a specifically African American audience, respectively, which we added to our post about marketing products to different groups.
On gender:
Elizabeth M. sent us a link to fashion designer Nina Ricci’s new line of shoes. They’re high high HIGH heels! We added it to some other real hobblers here.
Women cannot be counted on to hold it together in the face of low calorie sweets… or at least that’s what another commercial tells us.
Ben O. sent us a link to a company that makes pink protective gear for female construction workers. We added it to our post featuring pink handcuffs for cops.
There’s now another image up from the Evan Williams bourbon “The Longer You Wait” ad campaign.
Keely W. sent in a link to the new Fling candy bar, just for girls. We added it to our post on gendered candy marketing.
The Daily Show spoofed the obsession with Michelle Obama’s clothes. Andrea G. sent in the link and we added it to our collection of examples of this obsession. We also added a picture of the cover of a new book: Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion.
We added a picture of a sink that looks like a woman’s lower half to our post about urinals shaped like women’s bodies.
And, finally, does a month go by where we don’t update our BOOBS! post? Rarely. This time, though, we’ve got something special: Jezebel offered us a photo essay of a boob shaped milk cartoon, from fridge to trashcan. Visit our updated post here (scroll to the bottom) and enjoy this teaser:
Comments 3
Fat Angie — May 1, 2009
I think some of the links might be broken- I tried to click on a few and got error messages.
Lisa Wade, PhD — May 1, 2009
Thanks! Fixed!
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