So many Sarah Palin links... Fact-checking Palin's RNC speech. Will Palin be the first woman president? Who pays for Palin's child care? Polling shows women aren't buying the McCain-Palin ticket -- they're more skeptical of Palin than men are. Palin's first photograph at the RNC was with the political wives. Phyllis Schlafly uses Palin as an excuse to spew more bile. And Kate Sheppard looks at Palin's environmental record.
Bloggers are posting tomorrow on community organizing, setting the record straight about why "community organizer" is NOT a derogatory term.
Vanity Fair does the math on Cindy McCain's RNC attire. And on a related note, Robin Givhan (she of the "Hillary's cleavage" coverage) defends writing about clothes in a political context.
On the parties' changing stances on abortion. And Habladora asks if the parties are really moving to the right on this issue.
CNN runs a classic "career girl" article that reads as if it were published in the 1950s: "...wives rated their marital quality as higher when husbands were the primary earners." Ugh. ... AND then follows it up with an article that actually asks if catcalling is a compliment. They're on a roll, clearly.
The EU Parliament decries sexist advertising.
A truly tasteless spread in Vogue India featured impoverished Indians wearing outrageously expensive fashion items.
On Facebook's gender-targeted ads.
Remembering Doris Gibson, who founded Peru's first newsmagazine.
Check out Science Debate 2008, where they asked the presidential candidates to answer 14 science questions.
Syndicated radio host Jim Quinn referred to NOW as the "National Organization for Whores." And radio host Mark Levin called NOW the "National Organization of Ugly Women." Stay classy, conservative talk radio.
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Re: Facebook ads
i mark every diet ad i see as uninteresting. i've been doing it for 2-3 weeks, and i'm getting a lot less of those. i don't find it ok that i have to do this to keep them away though. why assume that every woman wants to lose weight?
Facebook how has a feature where you can mark ads as thumbs up or thumbs down, and supposedly that will change the kind of ads you get. Not sure how long that feature has been there.
I'm listed as female and it keeps showing me ads for engagement rings. Isn't it the guy that's supposed to buy the engagement ring?
Givhan's article about clothes in political context: Givhan indicates that men's suits are examined just as much as womens' clothes. Yet twice her article mentions suits "making women look pretty" but nowhere does she talk about designers trying to make men look handsome. "One hopes that some of them follow de la Renta's example and step up to the deceptively straightforward challenge of making a woman simply look pretty." Argh. Same old, same old. --CC
Facebook's actually been pretty interesting for me lately, but more in terms of the applications "Flair" and "Bumper Sticker." Both of them are basically opportunities for expression of interest, and there's been quite a lot of activity around Palin lately. I'm saddened to report the number of pro-Palin buttons and stickers, but there have been several awesome anti-Palin ones, including "Hillary Clinton? Feminism. Sarah Palin? Tokenism," right next to a picture of Token Black from South Park.
Thank you for the awesome reads!
That first link doesn't work for me.
I can't believe Phyllis Schlafly said that. Well, I can, but I can't believe that she basically got away with it. Absolutely disgusting.
In response to Vanity Fair:
“You have to remember with fashion, you can’t take it that seriously,” Ms. Tanna said. “We weren’t trying to make a political statement or save the world,” she said.
Clearly. They are going to poverty stricken areas and using the people there as objects to advertise their expensive products. Exploiting the locals definitely isn't saving the world, glad she cleared that up.
Unfortunately, polls now show the McCain ticket as being slightly ahead of Obama.
I'm almost past the point of critiquing and going to great lengths to analyze the campaigning.
I think maybe it's simply that a heck of a lot of America aligns closely with the conservative platform. I think I'll just move abroad someday...
I love the picture of Sarah Palin posing with her Bridge to Nowhere tshirt, back when she was strongly supporting it for the usual home-state pork reasons.
I'm trying to post it but I guess images don't work in comments, so I've got it here.
Vogue's article just solidified my opinion that designer clothes are stupid and insensitive. Nothing like putting a designer jacket on someone who can't afford food to remind a person that a $20 one will do just as well.
"Senator, why are you dressed like a tropical fruit?"
Two questions about Mark Levin:
1) Where does a chubby pantload who resembles an unwashed turnip get the nerve to attack anyone for their looks? It's like Rush Limp-balls calling someone a racist dope addict.
2) When did Michael Savage (AKA -The Savage Wiener) get that botched vasectomy?
RE: Facebook Ads Target You Where It Hurts
My boyfriend and I switched our relationship status to "Engaged" as a joke. Since then, all the ads I get are wedding-related. I'd say around 50% are about all the stuff I should be worrying about and spending money on (custom-made invitations, wedding bands, wedding gown, reception, photographer, musicians, hair, makeup, honeymoon destinations etc) while the other 50% strongly suggest that I lose a whole lot of weight. Meanwhile, my boyfriend gets ads about meeting singles online! I'ts like Facebook is stuck in a bad 1950's movie: while the bride busies herself planning "the most important day of her life", the groom starts looking for the obligatory mistress to go with his new married life.
anyone here ever try not to declare gender on facebook? i have a friend who gets a message at the top of this friend's feed every day asking for a gender declaration, like's it's offensive to facebook to be inter- or genderqueer or some such.