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Category Archives: Advertising

  • The wonderful Jenna Sauers of Jezebel posted recently on PETA’s attempts to be edgy and arresting in their support of animals at the [...]

    Meat and metaphors

    January 24, 2010
  • I hate this ad. I stood waiting for a bus the other day while another bus idled in front of me. It had this ad on the side, bigger than life. I [...]

    In which I am defeated by a billboard

    January 17, 2010
  • I would really love to ignore PETA, just in general, and their latest fat-hating billboard in particular. But there’s something about this [...]

    Whom we talk to when we talk about fat

    August 19, 2009
  • Tari just Twittered about this, and I see Rachel’s already covered it in-depth. I am giddy. Updated guidelines on ad endorsements and [...]

    The End of ‘Results Not Typical’?

    March 26, 2009
  • There are about a gazillion things we’ve missed in the last week, so it’s round-up time. First, though, I have a favor to ask of [...]

    Read ‘Em

    March 16, 2009
  • Which Fat Barbie image do you think is more likely to have a positive effect on children’s health? This one (via Jezebel), with the tag [...]

    Pop Quiz

    February 17, 2009
  • Andy Wright at Mother Jones nails everything wrong with Mars’s new candy bars for the lady market so perfectly, I can’t even add [...]

    WTF of the day: Fling candy bars

    February 15, 2009
  • Y’all, this is unbelievable. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Shapeling Damanique about an ad she saw in a train station in the Netherlands. [...]

    A Whole New Kind of Headless Fatty

    November 18, 2008
  • I have no words.

    Open for Discussion: “Obesity Is Suicide”

    April 9, 2008
  • On a lighter note, please enjoy this Vintage ad for Lane Bryant’s kids’ (?) line.

    Free for Chubbies

    March 25, 2008

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