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Adfreak: Enough with the chick awards already
Fortune magazine has its 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business. Many business magazines do a “Women to Watch” feature in whatever category they cover. And this time around, it’s not just women but working moms, and it’s not just working moms but working moms in “the dynamic, creative and lucrative field of advertising.” Could we slice this any thinner?
A press release titled “Accolades for Top Ad Moms” arrived today and goes on to explain why advertising needs this new award so much. Each of the honored women knows what it takes “to succeed as a working mother in a high-stress, fast-paced business,” reads the press release. You mean, as opposed to an ER doctor? A high-powered attorney? A NASA physicist?
I’m sure AWNY, the organization that’s putting out this award, does nothing but positive things for women in business. But doesn’t the mere existence of these awards perpetuate the differences between the sexes?
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About the poorly executed Watts joke, I thought Ms Klein had gotten married or something, and that I had missed the news. Seriously.
I dig that you post here ernieschenck , in some cases I agree so much with you I might be your siamese twin like in this piece that I plugged before: No Ad Student Left Behind, in this one.. Not so much.
Or rather, the underlying idea that selling something isn't bad I do agree with, it's just the part of comparing Kleins ideas on ad oversaturation in the public landscape (and how big name corporations affect the world), to a crackpot theory perputated by a con-artist (Vicary) that ripped off both Madison Ave and countless college students to this day that I find is... well there's a disconnect there for me. ;) About Vicary: In 1958 he disappeared, leaving no bank accounts, no clothes in his closet, and no forwarding address.
It's alright to be bugged by Ms Klein if you wish, the No Logo publishers (in various countries) are the only ones to flat out refuse (in a very polite way) to send us a copy that we could lotto away to adgrunts here like we used to do. Snobbier than Luke Sullivan, Kesselskramer , Jim Aitchison, St. Lukes' Creative company, Graphis, 72 dpi and a few more I cant be bothered to search for right now? anyway... ;) I don't hold a grudge at all... :P Nope... *whistles*
Alec just tipped the list to this article: Ads to pop up when TiVo users scan past commercials
TiVo fans weren't as enthusiastic."That really upsets me," says Paula Burg, 27, of Washington, who records about 15 hours of programming on her TiVo each week. "I love TiVo because it's what I want, when I want it. ... I'm already paying $12.95 a month (to avoid commercials)."
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