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Hey Babe! How Multi-Level Marketing Companies Use Feminist Language, Insecurities, and Community to Exploit Women Financially
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(Feminism)
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... them the ideal sellers for MLMs.
In 2020 Rodan & Fields received a warning letter from the Federal Trade Commission stating that they were falsely advertising working for the company. In posts on social ...
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Created on 11 July 2021
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Rollerskating is Back! And Skate Queen Lola Star is Here to Share All Her Tips to Get You Started
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(Living)
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... the horrors of war. Live organ music provided the soundtrack at rinks, making the ’40s the “golden era” of roller skating.
Wood engraving of a fashionable rink in Washington, D.C., 1880
An advertising ...
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Created on 05 May 2021
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What Makes Gen Z BIPOC Folks Feel "10 times more beautiful"? SELFMADE's Founder Stephanie Lee Know
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(Sponsored)
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Much of advertising makes us question if we’re pretty, sexy, or skinny enough to be “worth it.” According to a 2018 Eventbrite study, the average American spends 22% of their disposable income on products ...
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Created on 28 April 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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... as a vaginal cleanser. Agonized women were the focus of an aggressive advertising campaign placed within the pages of popular magazines promising “immaculate internal cleanliness,” while assuring readers ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Fashion Nova's $1 Million "Women On Top" Campaign Demonstrates How The Brand Can't Stop Exploiting Black Wo
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(Feminism)
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... (AAVE) when advertising. (Hosting an "It's the stimmy for me" sale? Really?)
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— giabuchi lastrassi (@jaboukie) March 16, 2021
When global protests erupted last year ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Catch First Time Directorial Debuts From Questlove to Rebecca Hall, 10 Must-See Films From Sundance 2021
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(Entertainment)
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... to access the tapes, Preble falls for Bella’s younger self, and gets mixed up in a corporate conspiracy that allows advertising to invade people’s dreams. With a scrappy analog aesthetic and low budge ...
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Created on 12 February 2021
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The Timelessness Of The Cheerleader Flick: Serving You Veracity In A Y2K Miniskirt
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(Movies)
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... Body, via 20thcenturystudios.com.
As a horror-comedy that addresses how monstrous the over-sexualization and objectification of teenage girls by men actually is, its advertising was remarkably tone-deaf ...
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Created on 04 February 2021
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Feminist Comedian Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator Of "The Daily Show," Wants You To Laugh To Keep From Crying: Bust Intervie
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(Entertainment)
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... the special's premiere on November 25, Winstead realized that she was unable to promote it on social media: Twitter had blocked her from taking out advertising due to alleged profanity in her feed and bio. ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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This UK Tampax Ad Was Pulled From Ireland Airwaves For Being Too “Vulgar”
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(Feminism)
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... “We will cease to show this advert now in Ireland in line with the authority’s decision,” a spokesperson from Tampax stated, citing the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland’s (ASAI) decision that ...
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Created on 02 September 2020
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A Tampon Commercial Was Pulled From The Air (For A Ridiculous Reason)
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(Feminism)
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... a smiling woman, it didn’t come off in the patronizing way that tampon advertisements usually do.
The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI) got several complaints about the advertisement. ...
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Created on 13 August 2020
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Yikes: Bacardi Made A Vodka "For Today's Modern Women" And It’s B
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(Eat Me)
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Spirits company Bacardi Limited just released a new vodka, called Plume & Petal, which is reduced-calorie and reduced-alcohol. And surprise, surprise: the advertising was initially aimed exclusively ...
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Created on 23 July 2020
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Why Getting Rid Of The Aunt Jemima Brand Isn't Enoug
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(Eat Me)
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... and Harrington were compensated for their labor is unclear.
Dr. Maurice Manring, the author of Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima, explains that the advertising was aimed at white middle-class ...
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Created on 22 June 2020
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Progressive Businesswoman Marie Newman Unseats Anti-Abortion, Anti-Immigration Incumbent
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(Feminism)
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... to politics, Newman was a marketing and advertising executive. After her son was bullied in school, she created an anti-bullying nonprofit in Chicago, partnering with Sears. From there she went on to become ...
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Created on 20 March 2020
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Autumn de Wilde Talks “Emma.,” Antiheroines, And Female Friendship: BUST Interview
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(Movies)
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... film with this amazing suitcase of knowledge that I had from all these different places, from studying ballet, from advertising to music to fashion. I came self-taught because of some brilliant mentors ...
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Created on 28 February 2020
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ABC Called This Frida Mom Ad "Graphic" and We Need to Fight the Stigma of Postpartum Recover
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(Living)
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... this is an incredible piece of advertising that accurately represents something millions of women know intimately. And I'm so fucking sick of living in a society where the act of simply BEING A WOMAN is ...
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Created on 10 February 2020
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Natasha Lyonne On Millennials, Maintaining Independence In Relationships, Healthy Adult Friendships, And "Russian Doll": BUST Intervie
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(TV)
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... to through advertising, peer pressure, and society’s implications.” She traces the origins of her own outsider feelings to a pivotal event from her childhood, right after her parents divorced and she and ...
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Created on 04 February 2020
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Google Maps Could Be Leading Women To Fake Abortion Clinics, But, Yelp Is Here To Save The Day
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(Feminism)
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... Additionally, the same statement emboldened the notion that search engines should enforce policies against advertising for CPCs.
Unless Google Maps takes action to screen for CPCs, women will continue ...
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Created on 08 January 2020
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Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
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(Arts)
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... present on this app that is owned by Facebook.
Banks, payment processors, and crowdfunding sites have cut off business with anyone tied to the adult industry. Social media and online advertising tools ...
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Created on 06 December 2019
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Rules and Regulations
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(Info)
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... Publishing Group USA, Inc and BUST, Inc., their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of employees ...
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Created on 23 October 2019
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The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
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(Feminism)
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... and majestic” figure he expected to see, “I found only a svelte Venus.”
Poster advertising the exhibition of the "Hottentot Venus," (presumably Sarah Baartman), 1814
Indeed, the inconsistency of her ...
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Created on 10 October 2019
