George just pulled his head out of the bucket of guilt! in Boston is doing 43 things including…

become a feminist superhero

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George just pulled his head out of the bucket of guilt! has written 4 entries about this goal

Many people have told me that...  — 1 month ago

I am very dedicated to the cause (feminism) so this will be an continuing goal and I will come back to this but am marking this done.

I started taking my summer course from the Grad School program at Simmons College; Special Topics: Pop Culture. Loads of reading but I think I am going to love it!

May 20, 06:26AM PDT 2 cheers | 0 comments

Target ad goes too far...  — 5 months ago

I remember an old skit on the Carson show that featured Ed Ames, the actor who played Tonto, and how he demonstrated on national TV how he could throw a hachet across the room and hit a target. Ames threw the hachet at a cowboy target right in the middle of the crotch. As he went to retrieve the hachet, Carson stopped him and quickly said, “I didn’t even knew you were Jewish which Ed Ames was and Johnny closed with “welcome to Cowboy briss.” The skit and how the target was hit was an accident and generated many laughs and one of Carson’s greatest moments.

Now, we have another target against women, there’s an offensive ad that shows women in a bad light like this one shown, some might just say, “aww, you making too much of all of this, aren’t you?” However, if just one person finds it offensive doesn’t that defeat and purpose of the marketing campaign? Why did they have to shoot the camera angle so that the youing lady appears right in the center of the circle, legs wide open? Many feminists, like myself, are going to complain to Target, and ask for an apology why did they do this? It’s going to hurt their business and some may boycott shopping there.

I don’t think Target was trying to get laughs like the Carson axe throw skit was, and if they didn’t want to “target” women, why didn’t their ad execs screen the ad before they placed it on a Hugh billboard for everyone to see in NYC Times Square?

Feb 02, 12:57PM PST 1 cheer | 4 comments

Tonight I had the privledge of hearing Ellen Bravo speak...  — 1 year ago

about her new book, “Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism is Good for Famalies, Business and the Nation.” She talked about her involvement in politics, and why women are getting lower wages than men, and why this needs to be changed. How big business is stealing from everyone else and what we can do to change it. It’s all in her book, I will let you know her thoughts after I read it.

She was so down to earth, lively, articulate, answered everyone’s questions and had a great sense of humor. I met her at WAM 2007 and don’t know why I didn’t buy her book then? Anyway, she signed mine tonight and still remembers me from WAM, what a treat (sigh)

Jun 06, 2007, 08:41PM PDT | 0 comments

Jessica Valenti on Steve Colbert Comedy Central  — 1 year ago

Have you seen the latest video clip of Feminist Author Jessica Valenti who was talking about her new book, “Full Frontal Feminism on the Steve Colbert Show? Here’s Jessica in action with Colbert. Colbert and Jessica

I thought she did a great job in expressing that, “their needs a more positive message for young women to follow,” and we need to “give women more value.” She mentions that feminism has always been there and is still “cool” even in today’s society. Women have unatainable standards set up my sterotypical views of what feminism used to mean. It’s like a “self help” book for women in re-discovering more about feminism.

While trading back and forth the humor of Steve Colbert, she mentioned the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion bans, contraceptives which Steve was clueless about. His statement of sex discrimination and feminism problems, “ignore it and it will go away.”

Jun 06, 2007, 01:58PM PDT 3 cheers | 2 comments

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