Just some good old fashioned Mad Men-era sexist tropes in advertising… This Martini & Rossi vermouth ad features an image of an animalized woman who has been tamed, or at least trapped, by a rugged martini-drinking man. It came from, I think, a 1967 issue of Playboy Magazine, though I don’t remember from what month. […]
“And…Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez might tell you that the system got you victim to your own mind.” A viral video that manages to call into question some deeply held ideologies about gender and sexuality while also being hilarious.
This song comes from a not-so-great solo album from Travis Morrison, the lead singer of an absolutely great band, The Dismemberment Plan. It is about the feeling of justice felt when hearing about a mistreated animal that does the ‘natural,’ inevitable thing and lashes out at its captors. I had been on the fence about posting […]
We did not get a chance to go look at the pioneer murals in the library, but when we talked about them, this is what I thought of. This supercut from Parks & Recreation uses values dissonance to show the way the town depicts their history, subverting some frontier myth ideas through satire. Something to think […]
Look at that pristine nature…. From the Statesman Journal: …Hinatsu said the canyon’s riparian vegetation — its moss and plants — have been damaged by visitors. He also said that sediment stirred up could have a negative impact on fish. “This gorge is a unique botanical place, with lots of mosses and plants growing […]
The fact that this show is popular enough to have spawned a full-length special and 20 hour-long episodes, when essentially the same thing happens in each one, is pretty fascinating. This show depicts, in hi-def CGI fashion, a speculative version of what might happen if our species were totally annihilated and nature were to more […]
The Sinclairs fulfill just about every trope of a nuclear sitcom family…except that they are dinosaurs. In one of the most intense moments of 90s television history, this series ends with an impending Dinopogenic ice age about to wipe everyone out: a dinosaur corporation destroys the habitat of a bug that eats a vine, so […]
I read a quote somewhere in the last year or so that those who are profiting from – or at least in the least danger from climate change look at it like “if you booked a ticket on the Titanic, wouldn’t you want to go first class?” I can’t get that analogy out of my […]
Noble Savage, anyone? I first encountered this image on Adbusters’ website, so I thought it was fake. From what I can now tell, it is a real poster from a 1967 Sierra Club-sponsored “Wilderness” Conference. More of the same tropes that all Native Americans are Plains Indians, and that they represent a wilderness lost or […]
I posted this Buzzfeed post about gendering babies (when gender is a social construct) on my Facebook page, and it created some really interesting conversations. A friend of mine who is an English professor specializing in queer rhetoric shared it as well and it began making the rounds in his social media circle, which then […]
