Tag: media studies

  • ⧑ the best/a man/can get ⧒

    Last week Gillette released an advertisement called The Best Men Can Be (25m+ views) which in 90 seconds presents this masculinity pageant: toxic masculinity has been perpetrated by men forever, now the #MeToo movement has shed light on it, now nothing will be the same, we’re not afraid of it because men can be better,…

  • Point, Counterpoint

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU] Two very different views (or maybe the same view, with different conclusions) about new forms of celebrity and entertainment. First, Marc Meyers of JazzWax bemoaning the emergence of radio singles with the word “fuck:” Once upon a time there were grownups in the music business. They were around to insist that artists meet standards…