Category — Men

This hit the screens a couple of weeks ago in Britain, and I understand it just has just come out in the US. It has the distinction of being the first James Bond film I was actually excited to …

The recent bout of feminist critique of Firefly has finally roused me from my prolonged inability to write anything at all about television, which will hopefully translate not only into some posts on that show that I’ve been mulling …

I take Captain Morgan commercials with a huge grain of salt. They’re ridiculous and over the top, peddling a product that probably doesn’t really need to be peddled that much. Most of the ads border on offensive (to me).

Their …

I’ve found another commercial or two I dislike intensely. Unfortunately, I can’t find the specific one that’s made me irritated online anywhere. Twix.com has one on their site for your viewing displeasure, that runs along the same theme.

All of …

How many times have you seen this plot in movies and television? Man and woman are friends. Man harbors romantic feelings for woman. Woman isn’t interested and/or doesn’t even realize the man loves her. Man is determined to make her …

I initiated this series back in August, (see intro here) but the real world got in the way of my ability to continue it. The comments were packed with good examples of this kind of character, many from shows I haven’t watched, and which actually included very few of the ones I was going to highlight.

I both love Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and fully admit that the show had serious shortcomings from a feminist perspective. While it was far from perfect, it certainly represented a huge step away from standard constructions of heroism and of gender roles, and Xander was a locus for playing out how those shifts affect young men.

For a change, I want to share a commercial I DO like.

I…I’m not even sure there’s anything feminist to informally analyze, or if I just like Herbal Essences’ Body Envy  because it makes me smile. I appreciate the flip it uses, …

Anyone who’s spent more than 30 seconds publicly identifying as a feminist has gotten into a conversation with someone expressing the thought “But what about the men?” The television/media geek version is “There are no good male role models on …

I’m starting to think I should just start a weekly column entitled “SBG’s Commercial Corner,” because it seems I’m always talking about commercials. Or children’s programming.

The latest in my commercial finds comes from Wendy’s, whose current ad campaign …

I…do not like this commercial. I’m not entirely sure why. It could, after all, really have been so much worse. That is to say, not all of the “chicks with swords” in the Broadway-esque song and dance routine are scantily clad …