Category Archives: Feminism and Culture

View the commercial here. According to Adrants: Ignoring the “don’t talk with your mouth full” childhood rule, KFC is running a commercial to promote its Zinger Chicken Salads in the UK showing call center workers singing with their mouths full. … Continue reading →

Given that the headline for the NYT article about this dating service labels True.com “Hot But Virtuous” I’m guessing it is a sizeable amount. The article itself rather repulsively starts out thusly: “The women who appear in Web ads for … Continue reading →

If not you can watch it here. Did you wonder which family member or so-called friend would put something like that out there for public consumption? Or did you realize that it was phoney, part of an advertising campaign? See … Continue reading →

Those words are from this Leonard Pitts column that was published 3/9/07 in the Miama Herald. Here’s another excerpt: … To the degree I think about her at all, it’s usually as a laugh line. People ask if I miss … Continue reading →

Today’s “not funny” entry is this post at The Cheerful Oncologist: Bad-tempered women ‘can blame it on genes’ Ever wonder why some women seem to be more ill-tempered than others? University of Pittsburgh researchers have found that behaviors such as … Continue reading →

Today’s NYT features a review by “Frank Bruni” of the restaurant at the Penthouse Executive club entitled: “Where Only the Salad Is Properly Dressed.” He claims to like the steak there, but the entire article is a platform for his … Continue reading →

Most of Oscars Best Dressed and all of Oscars Worst Dressed are women. Anyone doubt that any female nominee who tried to camouflage herself in a tuxedo like the men below would have found herself on the Worst Dressed list?

According to the NYT: The next time R. J. Reynolds Tobacco asks smokers to walk a mile for a Camel, watch how many of them are in high heels. Reynolds, eager to increase the sales of its fast-growing Camel brand … Continue reading →

An account from the Miami New Times is here, with an excerpt below: … The Bangbus formula is simple. As the bus — really, a white rental van — drives all over the Miami area, Greg Entner, who “performs” under … Continue reading →

Tonight at 10 p.m., PBS airs the Byron Hurt documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes.”   One critic describes the film as “a thought-provoking look into how the concepts of sexism, misogyny, and heterosexuality manifest themselves in a black male … Continue reading →

“Axe Fantasy Mousepad” From this site, which I don’t recommend either. Then there is the “Axe Fantasy” page, which features things like “Seduction Tips” (under the “Hot Stuff” tab) that are so ridiculous it’s hard to believe it isn’t satire.

From The Chicago Reader: Debra Pickett resigned from the Sun-Times Monday afternoon, minutes after being asked to do a story she thought was preposterous.”I laughed,”says Pickett, recalling her response when features editor Christine Ledbetter called with the assignment to breast-feed … Continue reading →

Via Adrants. That small type reads: “Linda Foster, CEO, Aged 29.” The yellow box in the bottom right says “Wonderbra,” the product that is being advertised. Apparently in Linda Foster’s case, wearing a Wonderbra causes so much discomfort she cannot … Continue reading →

Play’s Controversial Title Leads To Complaints, Change ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — A modified marquee in Atlantic Beach has been drawing some attention. “Hoohaa” replaced a word in the title of a play after a driver complained about finding the previous … Continue reading →

Can’t be a real feminist blog unless body hair gets discussed once in a while, eh? Here is a link to a BBC Woman’s Hour interview with Shazia Mirza, described as follows: The comedian Shazia Mirza has decided to stop … Continue reading →