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You’ve seen him plenty of times on sitcoms; he’s the dumb, bumbling, idiot dad, husband and boyfriend who appears useless at everything but bringing home a paycheck. The message: Guys are dumb and women have to lead them around. This, of course, cues the laugh track. Yet a survey from an [...]

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As evidence that cognitive dissonance permeate our culture, look no further than this specimin of the pop culture complex.
It’s not clear why Belgian’s Che Magazine took on as it’s namesake the Argentine revolutionary, but perhaps the transformation of the South American rebel into a pop icon made him game to become a cigar smoking, beard [...]

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Apparently not all are happy with the work of the Decapitator. And upon further review, I think perhaps the art borders on something far more nefarious.
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Wired calls him a renegade artist and culture-jammer. That’s one way of putting it. Fucked up misogynist [...]

OK, don’t ask me how I came across the above video, but it features Andre J, one of the finest people I have ever met. S/he used to work at the fashion store below the Dharma Punx meditation studio in Manhattan. Before meditation I’d hang with Andre to chat about life. S/he is one of [...]

I admit that Dove’s first round of postironic anti-”beauty” beauty commercials rubbed me the wrong way. I posted that it was a little too close to the edge of self-promotion for a beauty supply company to market itself as the anti-product. But this one is pretty darn amazing, to be honest, and it really hit [...]

The American Psychology Association has issued a report from its task force on the sexualization of girls. I found it to be balanced and was impressed that even though media contribute negatively to the objectification and sexualization of girls, the study also identified other ambient and environmental factors. Furthermore, it recommends (see quote below) media [...]

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You have to hand it to the commodities system for being so effective at absorbing dissent. But also credit the media literacy movement for making the misrepresentation of beauty in commercial media a contentious issue. For over a year now Dove has been running its “Real Beauty” campaign, the above video [...]

Eat The Press | CBS Whittles Katie Couric’s Waist In Doctored Photo | The Huffington Post:
CBS Whittles Katie Couric’s Waist In Doctored Photo.