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If you're interested in adding another woman-authored blog to your list, I recommend Sarah Scott's Mayday Productions. A former Martha Stewart employee, Scott ended up "tits-up in a ditch," as she put it to me once in a line borrowed from the title of an Annie Proulx short story,
when she was in a cycling race accident in 2005. "I don't remember if
the EMT woke me up, or I just came too on my own, but I remember
looking down at my thighs and thinking... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com)
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As of late, some blogs have made a sport out of calling out advertisers for being misogynist, but this one I really don't get. For some reason, Jossip (Jossip?) has deemed this IMO totally hilarious ad for U by Kotex misogynist. In it, a beaver uses a maxipad as a sleeping mask to drive home the point that users can "sleep easy with maximum protection." Of this joke, Jossip opines "this week misogyny ran rampant." Really? Now we're supposed to be offended by animatronic beavers wearing sleeping masks? "Nice to know the ad industry is opening its doors to vulgar 7th grade boys." Ugh, I say. Get over it! It's a beaver! It's a joke! (FYI, the campaign's been around for a while.) Does feminism mean we can't make beaver jokes? Maybe we American ladies could learn something from the Aussies.
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