My friend Peggy is kind of a genius sometimes. Like when she told me that every couple of months she checks in with Sarah Haskins “Target Women” shorts:
Haskins deconstructs advertising in the truest sense of the word: she dismantles the ridiculous tactics used by advertisers to manipulate women (and sometimes men) and reveals them for the pathetic attempts at pseudo-psychology and bald finagling that they really are. This is feminism at its finest, welding wit with anger and intelligence with accessibility.
And also, it’s hilarious. You can watch these at parties. Well, at least I’ve watched them at parties. Maybe my parties are different than yours. Hey, want to come over later and watch some Sarah Haskins? Then maybe we could play pin the tail on the patriarchy. And pour one out for Mary Daly. Sounds good? Awesome. See you later.
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January 10th, 2010 at 12:02 am
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS NAMECHECKED
Also: I would totally love to go to that party. Let’s go RIGHT NOW!
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January 15th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
PS YOUR BLOG CAME UP TODAY AT WORK. One of the subs has a friend who plays toy guitars through a regular amp. His name is Chris Dance (really!) and he teaches ceramics at Pike HS. So far I haven’t found him on the internets. She doesn’t recall his band name. Just thought I’d throw that out there b/c I was talking about Margaret Leng Tan in response (I had to look her up, though).
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