February 13, 2013 - I feel like I'm taking a huge risk here making Jennifer's dialogue so insensitive towards her mother, but I'm always appreciative of when stories can have a character do something despicable and still make you root for her. Hopefully, this is successful here. At the very least Jen's still my favorite character.
Next, I should probably let the Audi commercial go, but I just saw the 30 second version, which omits the already irrelevant reaction shot completely invalidating the already inadequate "but she liked it" argument. I also picked up the song lyrics playing over this scene are: Back against the wall/Get down to make you crawl/Get down when you feel tall/Get down to me. These lyrics just punctuate the ad as completely inappropriate, so I stand by my comic.
Though to be fair it isn't just this commercial. Here's a questionable one from Oikos Greek Yogurt that flips the genders but still involves sexual assault. I'm less inclined to go after this one in comic form though as it's debatable whether she's going for the kiss or really wants the yogurt on his lips, and I find the idea of someone being attracted to John Stamos (especially this narcissistic charicature of himself) to be so ludicrous to begin with I don't know if it can be taken as seriously as teenagers at a prom. Still as much as it gets maligned I don't want to completely discredit the MRA. For every 25-100 awful points they make there's occasionally 1 or 2 valid ones (the fact they overlook that the inverse is generally true with women's rights is another issue which makes a lot of the flak they get not completely unjustified).
Anyway, this blog is long now, and pretty rambling, so I'm just gonna end it. Shirts are on sale all of February. See you tomorrow.
-D
Next, I should probably let the Audi commercial go, but I just saw the 30 second version, which omits the already irrelevant reaction shot completely invalidating the already inadequate "but she liked it" argument. I also picked up the song lyrics playing over this scene are: Back against the wall/Get down to make you crawl/Get down when you feel tall/Get down to me. These lyrics just punctuate the ad as completely inappropriate, so I stand by my comic.
Though to be fair it isn't just this commercial. Here's a questionable one from Oikos Greek Yogurt that flips the genders but still involves sexual assault. I'm less inclined to go after this one in comic form though as it's debatable whether she's going for the kiss or really wants the yogurt on his lips, and I find the idea of someone being attracted to John Stamos (especially this narcissistic charicature of himself) to be so ludicrous to begin with I don't know if it can be taken as seriously as teenagers at a prom. Still as much as it gets maligned I don't want to completely discredit the MRA. For every 25-100 awful points they make there's occasionally 1 or 2 valid ones (the fact they overlook that the inverse is generally true with women's rights is another issue which makes a lot of the flak they get not completely unjustified).
Anyway, this blog is long now, and pretty rambling, so I'm just gonna end it. Shirts are on sale all of February. See you tomorrow.
-D
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