Corporate sexist offenders: Cross ’em off your Xmas list

It’s that time of year again. The time of year when companies ramp up their advertising in order to compete for your Christmas dollar. There is nowhere you can go without companies placing their product and logo in your face. Now is the time to recall which companies used sexploitation to sell and promote their […]

Spread ‘Em: how American Apparel prefers its women

Patty Huntington exposes the company’s porn-style approach to women Patty Huntington over at Frockwriter wrote this blog  about American Apparel’s favoured positioning of women in its advertising. Of course American Apparel has a long history of making women’s sexual parts the central focus of its marketing approach. But some of my blog readers may not […]