Spotted at a university circle convenience store yesterday
While I could care less what people but with their EBT something about this ad strikes me as strange.
When we were up in Lansing for thnxgiving I was kind of totally blown away by how many medical marijuana dispensaries there are. And, you know, their varieties of window-dressing.
Colonialism, Soap, and the Cleansing Metaphor
The first step towards lightening The White Man’s Burden is through teaching the virtues of cleanliness. Pears’ Soap is a potent factor in brightening the dark corners of the earth as civilization advances while amongst the cultured of all nations it holds the highest place — it is the ideal toilet soap.
IMG_1161. Detroit, MI.
The girl watcher should not let this situation disturb him, however. If the girl is watchable, she should be watched, no matter what her motives or ambitions may be.
spotted while perusing city pulse in preparation for next weeks excursion back to lansing
i guess michigan was serious about medical marijuana. good for them!
Old Squirt Ad. Eastown, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
So why such an emphasis on breast cancer? I’m not sure why. Certainly there is a massive social movement organization behind this anti-breast cancer marketing and people in charge have made a decision to take this approach. I think, also, the body parts and the presumed cause of disease matter. Do we have less sympathy (and would, therefore, a similar marketing campaign be less effective) for lung cancer because we think that lung cancer patients are to blame for their own disease? Would we find colo-rectal-anal cancer-themed cream cheese somehow less appetizing? Or prostate cancer-themed gum? Do lymphoid and hematopoietic cancers affect parts of the body that are simply less iconic?
…I’m not trying to suggest that raising awareness of and funding research for breast cancer isn’t important, but I am interested in the strategies by which being “against” breast cancer is (literally) sold to us. And I’m curious about how this affects treatment and research funding, if at all, and the rationality of our resource distribution given the application of a marketing approach to (some) diseases (and not others).
![“The Nikon S60. Detects up to 12 faces.”
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“The Nikon S60. Detects up to 12 faces.”
girls in underwear is not the only situation in which this feature comes in handy - it also detects dark-skinned people in jungle photos. nikon - for all your photo needs, whether sexist or racist! nikon corporate contact info here. from feministing) [via]
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Tampax: Sharks
anthropophagous
Archive Audio Images RSS FeedThis is just a collection of things I think are neat.
A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
