I'm a little late to the party, but my $0.02 on this topic is that I think most feminist groups are focusing on the wrong things. It's not that advertising has such a relentlessly high standard on female beauty, it's that our culture seems to accept and reinforce people making judgments about women based on their appearance.

Right now, it's socially acceptable for women to hold high-paying jobs, or act in a professionally aggressive manner, but only if she's attractive. If you're plain, or god forbid, downright unattractive, you're just a bitch, possibly a "cast-iron" bitch if you attain a position of power, and assert that power in the aggressive way men are always encouraged to.

There's a heavily reinforced cultural undercurrent that a woman's worthiness as a person is tightly connected to her attractiveness. Part of that comes from the pervasiveness of female beauty in American media -- even the "ugly" women are beautiful (take Tina Fey on 30 Rock as a prime example), because actually plain or unattractive women aren't allowed to be cast as anything but totally unsympathetic bitches, or maybe some sort of lovable grandma character if she's grey haired and wrinkled.

But I think this particular screed is missing the point -- the issue isn't advertisements with their objectification (of EVERYTHING), with overt sexual imagery, and impossible standards of beauty, it's the way that gets carried over into all the other aspects of mass media. There are no plain female musicians rocketing up the top 40, no average looking female news reporters, no sitcom with a normal-looking female character, no dramas where the sharpest intellect is a unremarkable-looking woman in her 40's...that's the real issue, not what they're doing in the ad world.

True Blood
30 Rock
Babylon 5
House MD

I've seen like 10 minutes of the Wire, because @demon_ix praises it to the skies, but I haven't gotten into it yet.

South Park, Simpsons, Futurama

God that bitch is annoying on 30 Rock...and she was annoying on Raw...I guess she's just stupid and annoying fucking everywhere.

Haha, that promote is from the same video. The quality is a different one. I actually had a power point come in after I * qualitied the first one so I thought it didn't work. Then after coming back to your pqueue page I was confused at the power points that I had so I promoted the liz lemon one! haha
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My word! You have been busy. Thanks again!

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My word! You have been busy. Thanks again!

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Thanks and well spotted, Fusionaut. That's a hidden little gem.

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>> ^ponceleon:

Lol, what's up with all the anti-grad student vids today?


Some people ask "Why treat graduate students this way." Why? Cause Fuck'em that's why!

Reminds me of http://videosift.com/video/30-Rock-on-graduate-students , which I couldn't believe had not been sifted before.

God that's awesome. TV kind of sucks lately. More 30 Rock!