Jan 6, 2011 “You have to separate the art from the artist.” How many times have you heard that turn of phrase relating to everything from hotel smashing rockers and hiphop thuggery to mind-bending visual assaults on the senses from advertising and pop culture? Art is subjective, yes. Actions that harm are not. Let’s be crystal clear people. The latest French Vogue “Cadeaux" … [Read more...]
Vogue “Cadeaux”-Children ARE Gifts. Not To Be Wrapped & Sold
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: Assault on Little Girls, Cadeaux, Carine Roitfeld, CCFC, Crystal Renn, Daughters, Erotic innocence, fashion magazines, French Vogue, Girls are not candies, Jean Kilbourne, Jezebel, kids controversy, Media Watch, Nancy-Gruver, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Pornification, raunchy, REVERB, Sesame Streetwalkers, Sexualization, So Sexy So Soon, thongs are not undies, Tom Ford, VAW, violence against women, Vogue, We're fed up with American Apparel
Depravity Gone Viral: A Thin Line For Humanity on Facebook
Sept 17, 2010 Deep breath. In. Out. Hold. Center. Ommmm… I’m trying REALLY hard to abstain from a kneejerk reaction to the ‘dare to share’ assault and twice-raped (by media) teen in Canada who had photos of her horrific ordeal plastered onto Facebook by morally bankrupt bystanders. You could say it was "Over the Line" as MTV's anti-bullying digital literacy youth site "A … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A Thin Line, Andy Church, anti-bullying, bullying, Bystanders, Canada, Canadian teen, child rape, Connect Safely, Cruel's Not Cool, date rape drugs, digital abuse, drugged dating violence, Easy A, Facebook, Gang rape victim, Get in the Game, healing, hookups, horrific Facebook ordeal, internet-safety, Jezebel, Jing online sharing tool, law enforcement, Mark Zuckerberg, media-literacy, Men Can Stop Rape, MTV VMA, open disdain of privacy, Over the Line, parenting, parents, Pitt Meadows, Pixel Project, Pop-Culture, porn charges, privacy settings, PTSD, Purple Ribbon, rape, rape photos, Rosalind Wiseman, sexting, sexual assault, skype safety, spiked drinks, Tapestries-of-Hope, teen drinking, teens, Upstanders, Upstanding, violence against women, Viral Rape Photos, Virginity Hit