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11 Feb 20097:29 am By la Macha · Bizarro|Marketing|TV|Women · Comments Off
11 Feb 2009In the realm of holiday-related marketing, Valentine’s Day advertising can be the most disturbing. From the annoying yet innocuous “every kiss begins with Kay” jewelry commercial (because women’s love must be purchased with trinkets a la island of Manhattan) to the downright terrifying. I caught this commercial for Vermont Teddy Bears and really couldn’t believe what I was watching…the toolish boyfriend, the ladies’ reactions (:42), the suggestion that these bears will undoubtedly lead to sex…it’s all too much.
What’s your favorite or least favorite Valentine’s Day commercial? And do you know of any that are geared towards men?
Via / YouTube
7:22 am By la Macha · Celebrities|Justice|society|Women · Comments Off
11 Feb 2009The saga of domestic abuse for superstar Rihanna apparently all started this past weekend with a fight and then some death threats which were coming from her boyfriend Chris Brown.
They began squabbling after leaving Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party late Saturday. Shortly after midnight, things blew up. Brown pulled his silver Lamborghini to the side of a street in L.A.’s Hancock Park neighborhood. That’s when, per the source, Rihanna grabbed the car keys and tossed them out the window, sending Brown into a rage.He tried in vain to find the keys, then came back to the car, put his hands around her neck and, according to the insider, said, “I’m going to kill you!”
According to reports, Rihanna was beaten unconscious, and when she awoke, severely injured, was taken to the hospital after someone called 911. Reports are sketchy and conflicting, but The Huffington Post, which is doing a good job of compiling all of the information, has published accounts that the singer was bloody and exhibited bite marks.
Chris Brown turned himself in on Sunday and is being held on $50,000 bail. A party planned for Rihanna’s 21st birthday has been cancelled, as has an upcoming concert in Malaysia. Brown has also lost a contract with Wrigley’s gum as a result of the incident.
Rihanna is reportedly cooperating with police on the case, according to the L.A. Times.
Via / The Huffington Post, multiple sources
When Nadya Suleman gave birth to eight babies, everyone went awww. When people found out she already had 6 kids, bringing her children up to 14, people went ay! And since then, everyone wants her to be anything but white porque as pointed out by this post on Racialicious, white mamis with many many kids get movies and tv shows. Non-white mamis get hated on and accused of being on welfare and a burden, even if there is no proof that she actually is a burden. People respond by yelling “Don’t giver her free diapers!” , as if to say, “she needs to be punished”.
Then people look closer. Suleman. what kind of a name is that? It sure as hell ain’t Smith, or Gosselin, or Michelle and Jim Bob Duggers. So people have to make her something other than “us”. So they make her “them” as in me, as in Latina.
You know Latinas with their loose sexual morals and high birth rates and secret plans to reconquer the tierra with babies and then Suleman isn’t married. Why don’t Latinas get married to their babies’ daddies or in this case sperm donors cuz yes, that would make it all ok, right?
Except Suleman isn’t Latina.
Nadya’s father is Iraqi and her mother Ukrainian.
And now to add the horror. Suleman receives Food Stamps. ::Gasp::.
Hell I only have two kids and food stamps help, alot.
Go ahead and comment now. I’m ready to start banning stupid people.
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