Tuesday, January 31, 2006

girls gone wild at Pandagon

So people yelled and screamed at Kos for running the infamous pie ad and Twisty complains that a "sexy" graphic is used for a heading on cancer at NewScientist.com.

But when Pandagon runs a titty ad promoting another liberal web site, nobody seems to notice.

Is it because blogger pals don't like to criticize each other? Or perhaps because headless titties say "liberal blog" more than a "sexy" naked body says "cancer?"

I emailed the people responsible for the ad. They said the ad designer is female, and besides, they need the attention, and the ad gets attention.

So it's all OK. They don't hate women, they're just trying to get attention through titty-flashing.

I would argue that this is even more offensive than "Girls Gone Wild" ads. Because GGW is all about females raising their shirts to show their titties - that's truth in advertising. But the site you go to by clicking on the titty ad has no girls going wild. None at all.

I'll never get to be part of the liberal blogger in-crowd by saying this, but that's life in the big city I guess: to constantly be on the march against signs of Patriarchy-coddling, but to ignore a clear example of pandering at Pandagon is flat-out hypocrisy.