If there is something I love, it is funny women who use their comedy to teach us something we might otherwise not have considered in the course of our daily lives. Take advertising, for instance. We all know that the murky world of advertising is filled with racism, sexism, homophobia, and a whole host of other nasty "isms" and phobias. But do we really stop to think about what ads are actually saying to us?
Enter: Sarah Haskins. Haskins is a former director of the Chicago-based sketch group Hey, You Millionaires! and is now a producer in L.A., producing, among other things, "Target Women," short videos that satirize how the advertising world speaks to, fears, imagines, and undermines women. You can check out all of the Target Women videos on YouTube, but here is one of my all-time favorites:
Okay, apparently the computer I'm working on can't load videos correctly, so here is a link to one of my all-time favorites. Learn. Share. Enjoy.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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