homophobia

Jim Beam Ad Remakes Even Worse Than Originals

by Cara February 26, 2009

You might have seen the extremely offensive and sexist Australian Jim Beam ad series last year at Hoyden About Town. The Neighbours shows naked women sunbathing outside in their backyard, with men peeping on them.  The Girlfriend shows a doormat of a woman explaining how she likes when men neglect her.  The Tragedy shows a [...]

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T-Shirt Hell Closes Its Doors

by Cara January 27, 2009

Trigger Warning — highly disturbing images below the fold. Via Sociological Images, I just learned that T-Shirt Hell (no I’m not linking) — that website that sells t-shirts which are beyond racist, misogynistic, homophobic, ableist, and I’m sure in many other ways very hateful — is closing down.  And knowing that they will be no [...]

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Campbell Soup Catches Teh Gay, Yet Somehow Doesn’t Mind

by Cara December 30, 2008

Swanson Broth ran an ad in The Advocate, a popular LG(bt) 1 publication that is in some trouble of its own right now.  Quite naturally, seeing the audience, the advertisement (pdf) featured a lesbian couple preparing a holiday meal with their young son. All seems well, good, and uneventful . . . but that’s because [...]

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Woman Gang Raped in Homophobic Hate Crime

by Cara December 23, 2008

Trigger Warning Having just yesterday discussed the ways in which many depictions of rape uphold the violent act as an appropriate punishment for women who behave outside of patriarchal expectations, I couldn’t not post this story (h/t). A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, [...]

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