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Fucking LOVE 90s and early 2000s commercials

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Reblog every time

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I swear this was one of the funniest commercials of my childhood and I’m so sad more people don’t talk about it

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“Advertisers must convince young women that they are in need of constant improvement—largely to get and keep boys’ attention—without threatening young women’s views of themselves as intelligent, self-directed, and equal. Buzz words like “empowerment,” “self-determination,” and “independence” are sprinkled liberally across their pages. But this seemingly progressive rhetoric is used to sell products and ideas that keep girls doing gender in appropriately feminine ways, leading them to reproduce, rather than challenge, gender hierarchies. An ad for a depilatory cream, for instance, tells girls that they are “unique, determined, and unstoppable,” so they should not “settle… for sandpaper skin.” Feminist demands for political and economic equality—and the refusal to settle for low-wages, violence, and second-class citizenship—morph into a refusal to settle for less than silky skin. Pseudo-feminist language allows young women to believe that they can “empower” themselves at the checkout counter by buying the accoutrements of traditional femininity.”

— Amanda M. Gengler, Selling Feminism, Consuming Femininity (via girlinlondon)

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has anyone else seen the incredibly dystopian bic razor commercial where a bunch of women look into the camera repeating “I shave for me”?

I had some grad photos taken to represent what my time at UCI has been like.

#graduating #jacxk101 #grad #bubbles #UCI #UC Irvine #anteaters #2018

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Franz Marc, Foxes, 1913, source

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Awesome Childhood Spelling

Uhh…where it says “looked” read “lopped”. lol This is based on the original tweet you see up there by Twitter user @Sal_Perez4 (see the original tweet here).

allthingslinguistic

Another, similar thread by Jonathon Owen on the linguistics of this same excellent tweet.

Me: I got a gym membership Also me:

kmtam

As a senior graduating this June, taking your class last quarter really opened my eyes to a lot of things. I learned new ways of looking at the world & society. I also started watching more SNL videos. After finals week was over, I flew home and showed my sisters some of the memes you showed in class, and I laughed all over again, in disbelief that the class was really over. Thank you for a great quarter. After I turned in my final, I wanted to say bye and thank you, but I was too shy. #1regret

Thank you, this is vindication that my memes are not always lame, but in fact can still make people chuckle (or perhaps chortle). And you should have said hello and goodbye! I always like to meet new people, and it’s tough in a 250 person lecture!

Note to everyone else: Yes, last quarter I taught an article and lesson on “The Californians,” which probably makes me a questionable professor.

jacxkery

Not at all questionable! The Californians sketches are hilarious, awesome AND anthropologically significant