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Sure, advertising today gets away with a strange post-gender extremist sexism, but back in the day there was a kind of homey casualness to sexist advertising. This doesn’t make it okay, of course, hence Neatorama’s listicle of 10 Chauvinistic Vintage Ads, which features all manner of casual condescension and hot normative action.
Like the couple at [...]

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, and in honor of the various events taking place on this day of action (check out the Sex Workers Outreach Project’s website for events near you) we’ve rounded up some DIY sign suggestions should you find yourself in a city holding a sex workers rights parade. Here, then, [...]

The passionate ladies over at Feministing released a listicle today outing some feminist poseurs. Some of their entries are brave, others are obvious, some are missing. Like all sexual-political polemics, though, all the entries are conversation sparkers. So, behold, here are Feministing’s Top 5 Feminist Posers:

5. The Spice Girls: As much as their music was [...]

What am I supposed to be buying exactly?

Alex Leo, feminist and media-savvy blogger for 23/6 and The Huffington Post, offers this critical listicle (cristicle?) on her blog: 5 Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just Can’t Shake. We’ve all seen them (been persuaded by them?), now let’s think about them:
Bondage
Sex sells, violence sells, sexy violence is [...]