Category Archives: Sexism

sexism

Celebratory Drinking and Smoking Cigars — Out

Posing Half Naked on Maga­zine Covers  —  In

Could the mes­sage be any more clear?

America’s Next Top Buttock

Ame­ri­can Appa­rel con­test has spar­ked a peti­tion protest.

If I thought it would do any good I’d sign the peti­tion, but on revie­wing the suc­cess of Ame­ri­can Apparel’s (bor­de­ring on por­no­graphic), mar­ke­ting tac­tics over the years, I don’t think it would do any good. Peo­ple need to stop buying the stuff

Google Women, Strangely Irritating

I was orga­ni­zing my Goo­gle home pages. I have many cate­go­ri­zed pages, from science and inter­na­tio­nal deve­lop­ment, to blogs and anth­ro­po­logy. I deci­ded to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”.
I star­ted the tab, and labe­led it women. I inad­ver­tently left their “I feel lucky” box chec­ked. The six sites which

Interesting Irony Time Again

I haven’t done an “Inte­res­ting Irony” post in some time. This works, and doesn’t stretch the grey cells too far.
Irony epi­to­mi­zed is when a maga­zine tit­led Self pho­toshops pounds off, and resha­pes, Kelly Clark­son. All this while publishing an inter­view in which Kelly tells them she is “com­for­ta­ble with her weight, her looks, and her­self,