My point was that the medication commercial was using dance outfits that are standard for that age group. There was nothing exploitative in their choice. I mean, leotards are standard wear for girls of all ages. If those aren’t considered exploitative, then the dance outfits from the commercial aren’t, either. Tutus don’t cover camel toe, either.
Okay. Far be it from me to argue the fine line between classical dance tutu’s and star-spangled crotch floss, but whatever.
All I need is a bass and guitar, and I’ve got a band!
There’s a way most dancers* use to combat camel toe.
I could tell you …
(* Not really young dancers, preteen and up)
Dude, you slay me all the time!
Does it involve masking tape?
It’s called costume tape. But yeah it’s flesh colored masking tape.
And no hair, or you’ll be really sorry.
Yeah, the makeup is no biggie. Even my niece when she was 4 yo wore makeup on stage with her dance class.
We’ve gone from annoying songs and dumb actors to flesh colored hoo-ha tape. It’s been a long, strange journey.
I must have seen the Amazon dancing teen ad 200+ times over the last five days and wondered if anyone was going to bring it up here. I’m ashamed to admit the first time I saw it, I was taken aback. The shot of her forested lip was just so unexpected. But by the third viewing I grew to really like it. Yes, first and foremost it’s Amazon hawking their wares, but I’m choosing to concentrate on the self-empowerment aspect. Not to make more of it than it is, but I kind of feel like it made me see the beauty and coolness in someone who at first glance was alien; a message that this world at large would do well to learn.
I guess I’ll have to see it 197 more times, then. All I think is, “Poor kid’s going to go home from school crying every day. And something bad’s going to happen to that jacket.”
Oh, yeah, that too (unfortunately).
Hey, I’ve read letters from Hustler readers. Some men actually like women with facial hair. Hairy nipples too.
Hubby: All she needs is a moustache and she could be a young Frida Kahlo.
Me: You haven’t watched this all the way to the end, have you?
Another truck commercial is annoying me. What is it about truck commercials that are so, so nails on chalkboard? Even worse than drug commercials!
This one has a female country/western style singer whose heart is like a truck. Only she has absolutely no vibrato at all so she sounds like she’s yelling at the top of her lungs. So she has a AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA like a UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” belongs to Christmas, not a Claritin commercial in April. I always expect some snowflakes when it comes on.
I still like the Office Depot commercial where the dad dances around the store getting school supplies while his disappointed children glumy watch
Then it should be perfect theme music for Head & Shoulders shampoo.
And I just learned the music in that commercial IS Queen.
Well then!
Ah, it’s on Hot Space. I think I’ve only listened to the whole thing once.