April 17, 2009 “Booty is booty?” I say give BK’s agency a boot in the backside out the door for this one… I've been trying NOT to cover this ad absurdity to avoid the media baiting and instead quietly took my views to Nickelodeon & Burger King via the CCFC sound off campaign here...but BK just keeps coming up with gaffe-a-minute badvertising, so I've gotta broil 'em a … [Read more...]
When It’s Not Hip To Be Square: Sexist Spongebob & Burger Shots
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: AdFreak, apple fries, apple sticks, baby burgers, Baby Got Back, badvertising, binge drinking, BK, BK Positive Steps, booty, boycott, BrandFreak, Burger King, Burger Shots, cardiac, CCFC, Hip-Hop, hoochie mama, IOM, junk-food, Kids, Kids meals, media influence, mini burgers, negative, Nickelodeon, offensive, parental outcry, quad stacker, Quiznos toasty torpedo, sexist, Sexualization, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants, squarebutts, subway, value meals
Fem 2.0: Feminine Feminism & The Mother of All Conversations
Femmes and friends of all colors are abuzz about whether Erin Aubry Kaplan’s recent Salon article about Michelle Obama’s backside was out of bounds or ‘a joyful celebration’ of blackness... Some of my blog favorites from Latoya at Racialicious to Gina at What About Our Daughters (and adjunct blog “Michelle Obama Watch”) have landed some … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 60 minutes Obama interview, African American stereotypes, Age-of-Conversation, Anita Borg Institute, APA, backside, black, BomChickawahwah, booty, boy toys, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Essence, Fem 2.0, Fem2.0, Fem2pt0, feminine versus feminist, feminism, feminism on the web, feminist, femme, First Ladies, First Lady, Gender, gender fratricide, girls, girls self esteem, girls-self-worth, glass ceiling, Lara Croft, Madeleine Albright, media-literacy, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Watch, mommification, mommy bloggers, MotrinMoms, Packaging-Girlhood, Pink Think, preteens, Pussycat Dolls, Racialicious, Salon, Sexualization, the F word, third wave feminism, turncoat fender, What About Our Daughters, women 2.0, women of the web
Toxic Coinage Consumption: Melamine Scare Spooks Parents
Argh, maties! These Sherwood Brands Pirates Gold Coins shiver me timbers! I’m quite accustomed to the annual viral parent panic of tainted candy of some kind or other each year, but this season, Truth or Fiction is even even trickier to discern whether these milk chocolate coins are ‘threat level orange’ or a plink in a bucket long shot, even among the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: America-centric, BlogHer, booty, Canada, Canadian candy recall, candy, candy recall, CFIA, child safety, China exports kids, China melamine, chocolate coins, consumer reports, Consumers Union, consumption, Costco, doubloons, Halloween candy, Kids, milk chocolate, mom bloggers, MomsRising, moral-panic, parenting, Pirate gold coins, Sherwood Brands, toxic candy, toxins, Trick or treat, truth or fiction