Adios Barbie

Save Your Boobs, Unless They’re Saggy

Update:  Jezebel and The LA Times have posted two new stories also shaming the “Save the Boobs” campaign.

Just came across this psa “Save the Boobs” for ReThink Breast Cancer. In an effort to reach a hip, young, media savvy audience about the impact of breast cancer on young women, this campaign does nothing to lift [...]

Open Thread on Advertising and Body Image

During my career as a media literacy expert, I have squirreled away a number of advertisements over the years that I think are great examples of how the media dictates how women (and men) are supposed look and feel. Below is an ad that ran a few years back for Candies perfume and shoes.
Instead of [...]

Black Booty Body Politics

by Latoya Peterson
Racialicious.com

Whose Pussy Is This?
Now I have to ask this question
Cuz you mothafuckas keep disrespectin’ my shit
In every line that your lame asses spit
I’m forced to hear about my pussy
That is always on sale
A hot retail item
wrapped in plastic
for $12.99
And this shit is drastic
Bcuz everyone thinks they too have ownership of something that [...]