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When I saw this video, I was shocked at the amount of utter badness one managed to condense into one minute and 8 seconds.



There's your Beauty Myth ideology at the basis of the video.
The beautification of bodily mutilation.
Big, huge, honking amounts of racism ("Big Bushes" for the Black girl, tiny "Bonsai" bushes for the Asian girl).
Oh and good ole' female objectification with the comparison of bushes to... well... you get the picture.

A chain saw?
For reals?!

Date: 2009-04-07 06:09 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] danamaree.livejournal.com
Honestly if I saw that on TV, I'd laugh my head off, because it seems like a bad homage to those 50s 'Stepford Wife' type housewife commercials. It's just so silly.

But I wouldn't buy the product, I don't shave my legs.

Date: 2009-04-07 06:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kynn.livejournal.com
The pun "tulips" had me wincing!

Date: 2009-04-07 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadie-sabot.livejournal.com
In honor of this ad, i am going to NEVER EVER shave my "bush" again. fuck that noise.

Date: 2009-04-07 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mao4269.livejournal.com
...I think that them having the "lead" actress holding a cat might just have been the most effective joke to me [mentally] making "pussy" jokes that you could possibly have come up with.

Oops!

Date: 2009-04-07 07:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mao4269.livejournal.com
Effective *deterrent*, rather...

Date: 2009-04-07 10:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-horse.livejournal.com
Wait

this video is a joke, right??

... right?

Date: 2009-04-07 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
It's worse than shaving your legs... shaving your bush! You pubies!
Dude! It's out of control down there.

Sheesh, the sheer nerve of advertisers is somethings else.

Date: 2009-04-07 11:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
OMG! I totally blocked that out!

Date: 2009-04-07 11:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
I've never shaved, but I'm a trimmer... that makes me never want to take anything down there.
Ever.

Re: Oops!

Date: 2009-04-07 11:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
LOLZ!

I do need to do some grooming though :)

Date: 2009-04-07 11:18 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] danamaree.livejournal.com
I think that saves it for me from being bad (offensive bad), it's so bad, it's so obvious, that it just makes me laugh. I think they were going for that cheezy style. And they say if an advert can get your attention, that's all that matters.

Generally I try to avoid advertisements mostly. Especially ones aimed at women.
Edited Date: 2009-04-07 11:19 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-07 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
If it were a joke, women's lives would be stand up routine...

*sigh*

Date: 2009-04-07 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Ditto, I barely watch teevee on the television nowadays any way.

I think that's why I'm shocked at that sort of thing. I've created a bubble around me in order to avoid ads like that... or anything of that nature that isn't examined (by life)

Re: Oops!

Date: 2009-04-07 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mao4269.livejournal.com
I can't imagine that Wish appreciates that very much...

Re: Oops!

Date: 2009-04-07 11:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Not that kind of grooming...

Date: 2009-04-07 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stateofwonder.livejournal.com
Did they really go there with race? Seriously? WTFFFFFFFF!

(I'm guessing this is actually an internet video, rather than one aired on tv, though. With lyrics like "all there is that's left to see is "tulips" on the mound", it's pretty risque.)

Ew.

Date: 2009-04-07 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queer-kitten.livejournal.com
I just sat here For like 5 minutes. Staring at the screen waiting for "April fools "

Date: 2009-04-07 09:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-horse.livejournal.com
right. :|


...


it makes me lose faith in humanity. :|

Date: 2009-04-08 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] constintina.livejournal.com
Oh jesus, that thing...HATE.

Date: 2009-04-08 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
I know!!!!

I second your "Ew".

Date: 2009-04-08 11:06 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-08 11:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Hate and loathing... there is absolutely nothing redeemable about that thing.

Date: 2009-04-08 11:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corvus.livejournal.com
Want to drink coffee/eat lunch tomorrow? I'm in TA from morning to about 5pm to catch a bus to a ridiculous festival over at Palmachim.

Date: 2009-04-08 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aesiron.livejournal.com
It's offesnively bad, but "bodily mutiliation"?

Date: 2009-04-08 02:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Taking a chainsaw to the bush reminded me of FGM, dunno about you.
It was very telling that they had the black girl be the most aggressive and have the "out of control" bush, imo.

Date: 2009-04-08 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Tomorrow is no good... 'till when are you in the country?

Date: 2009-04-08 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aesiron.livejournal.com
Right. The implied racism was pretty bad and I caught it immediately, but I don't think the chainsaw to the bush was any worse than the lawnmower or hedgeclippers. We only use so many bladed tools in amateur landscaping.

Date: 2009-04-09 01:26 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] tinyrevolution.livejournal.com
whaaaaaaaaaaaat

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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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