- 1. 5 Creators Fighting Diet Culture That Go Beyond Body Positivity
- (Living)
- Media is overloaded with advertisements and other content that pushes harmful beauty and “wellness” standards, but this is increasingly being juxtaposed by content creators trying to drown it out with ...
- Created on 26 January 2023
- 2. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- Trump wasn't the first to suggest a spoonful of disinfectant for all that ails you. At a White House coronavirus task force meeting in April 2020, the president wondered out loud if an “injection” of ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 3. Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
- (Arts)
- Lindsay Dye is a multimedia artist, performer, and cam girl who studied photography at the Pratt Institute. It was there, Dye says, that she first discovered a budding interest in camming and cam culture. ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 4. The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
- (Feminism)
- ... displacing their organs in the process. Woolson deemed dieting as a way to diminish women physically and metaphorically, reducing them to the traipsing nymphs of men’s sexist fantasies. Neither, however, ...
- Created on 10 October 2019
- 5. The Woman Behind "Reviving Ophelia" Reflects On Teen Girls' Mental Health, Then & No
- (Feminism)
- ... shirts, and Virginia Woolf novels. We reclaimed sexist language and used it to express our burgeoning confidence and power. Even while maintaining our polite Nebraska sensibilities, we were a generation ...
- Created on 24 September 2019
- 6. Dad Can Clean Up Too: U.K. Bans Harmful Gender Stereotypes In Advertisements
- (Feminism)
- ... list. Top photo screenshot via ABC news. More from BUST Sexist Mother's Day Commercial Enrages The Masses Empowering Advertisement Jumps The Shark With Horrible "Eyempowerment" Ad Stop Selling ...
- Created on 17 June 2019
- 7. A History Of Women In "The Daily Mail
- (Books)
- ... designed to piss off: for example, Samantha Brick being ‘too beautiful’ and Jan Moir ‘pitying’ women who shop in their pajamas. So there you have it, from revolutionary to labelled sexist and outdated, ...
- Created on 05 April 2019
- 8. New Gillette Ad Seems To Support The #MeToo Movement—But Let's Look At Its Parent Compan
- (Feminism)
- ... In other words, don't let the branding trick you: this Gillette ad is just a cash grab. Top image: Gillette More from BUST Here's A Genius Way To Take Down Sexist Ads Season Of The Bitch Is The ...
- Created on 15 January 2019
- 9. Javier Bardem Supports Woody Allen Despite Dylan Farrow’s Accusations: Link Roundup
- (Living)
- ... on the film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and that he still has “doubts” about whether Allen sexually abused his daughter, Dylan Farrow. Read the full story at Vulture. Lola Kirke Is Tired Of Sexist Movie ...
- Created on 20 April 2018
- 10. Doritos Is Making "Lady Doritos" Because Apparently Women Don't Like To Crun
- (Feminism)
- ... in the UK (where they understand that size, and ridding of sexist stereotypes, matter). But the biggest hope is that once these Dame-Doritos hit stores, they’ll eventually make a Girls Night Out verizon: ...
- Created on 05 February 2018
- 11. The Comic "Lady Killer" Shows A Woman Murdering Sexual Harassers — And It Comes At The Perfect Tim
- (Books)
- ... going to all these antique stores. I kept finding all these really sexist ads, and I loved them, and I started to collect them,” Jones tells BUST. “It was funny because in almost all of them it’s all a ...
- Created on 14 December 2017
- 12. Embracing Self-Love In A Time Of Hate: A Flowchart
- (Feminism)
- ... combating it is the only way to end it. Internalized misogyny is a combination of explicit and implicit values we learn from our home and culture. We internalize sexist messages put out by TV, magazines, ...
- Created on 16 October 2017
- 13. Dick Sticks: Sexism In Snowboarding
- (Feminism)
- I started snowboarding in 1990 and was hooked from the moment I started. Back then, the percentage of women participating in the sport was at just 3%, and we were such a small market, there wasn’t ...
- Created on 12 October 2017
- 14. This Clothing Brand Just Turned The Tables On Objectification In Advertising — But There's A Catc
- (Feminism)
- ... parent company Suitsupply has been known for creating extremely sexist and degrading advertising campaigns towards women, even though they only make products for men. As recently as 2016, they showed tiny ...
- Created on 09 October 2017
- 15. American Apparel's Legacy of Hipster Sexis
- (Style)
- ... rendered its sexist images 'harmless fun.' The model's young, cheeky look told us that she was down with the joke, and we all should be, too. And many were, for a very long time. It was not until late in ...
- Created on 10 April 2017
- 16. Femvertising Jumps The Shark With Horrible “Eyepowerment” Ad
- (Feminism)
- ... feminism (or should we say feminEYEsm?) and empowerment to gain support for a product with no real political relevance. While advertising dry eye medication isn’t inherently sexist, Allergan’s attempt ...
- Created on 17 March 2017
- 17. This Is The Only Time Its Appropriate For Politics To Get In Your Pants
- (Style)
- When you take into account the events of these past few weeks, what with Donald Trump’s “Grab Her By The Pussy” "locker room talk" and other accusations of sexual assault presented against the Republican ...
- Created on 19 October 2016
- 18. Helen Mirren Is Still A Successful And Serious Actress Despite The Size Of Her Breasts
- (Feminism)
- ... can use [their sexuality], and if they don’t want to, they can just say ‘Fuck off.’” That's right — now and forever, fuck off, Michael Parkinson! More from BUST Helen Mirren On That Sexist Interview: ...
- Created on 23 August 2016
- 19. Have You Cried Yet Today? Watch These Olympics-Themed Always #LikeAGirl Videos For Feminist Tears Of Joy
- (Feminism)
- ... via Facebook More From BUST Meet The Athletes On The 2016 Refugee Olympic Team Leslie Jones Is Going To The Rio Olympics And All Our Dreams Are Coming True 3 Ways The Media Is Being Incredibly Sexist ...
- Created on 09 August 2016
- 20. These 21 Sexist Vintage Ads Will Have You Shaking Your Head
- (Living)
- Ah, the good ol' days: pre-internet, post-century turn and right up in the middle of some blatant sexism. Don't you miss these simpler times? Well, we've compiled these 21 vintage ads that will have ...
- Created on 12 July 2016
