buzzfeed:

[The Last Words Of 20 People Who Were Executed]

thefremen:

womenaresociety:

Dear Chapstick, We’re Through

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
PO Box 26609Richmond VA 23261-6609 

Attention – ChapStick Consumer Relations

To Whom It May Concern:

I have used your brand for 25years, ever since my mom put my very first tube of ChapStick in the bib pocket of my snowpants before heading out for an afternoon of sledding. I can remember feeling very grown up, and ever since I have had a tube or six of Cherry ChapStick in a pocket or arm’s reach. I have used your brand on my own children, and they know to swipe their lips before heading out to play during our chilly Wisconsin winters. That’s all over now.

ChapStick, we’re through. My family will not be using your brand again. I tried to tell you why on Facebook, but you deleted my comment. You deleted the comments of many, many women who spoke out against your objectifying ad ”Where Do Lost ChapSticks Go?” prominently featuring the back end of a woman bent over a couch. In fact, before you deleted it, the photo file uploaded to your page by some intern was labeled “Ass”. I do not support companies that use the objectified body parts of women to sell their product. I do not support a company that deletes the voices of its female customers, but allow sexist and sexual comments from men to remain. I refuse support a company that disrespects its female customers, both in its advertising and social media outreach. As a woman, a mother, and a small business owner those actions offend me. 

Why you paid an advertising agency big dollars to use a woman’s “Ass” to sell me a product I put on my lips seems a bit off. Why you chose to go with the ad that sexualizes a woman and gives off that low budget, basement porny-feeling right at the beginning of the winter season when every parent across America is in need a good balm to put on her kid’s lips seems to me as though you don’t understand that women control 86% of consumer spending. There isn’t much in question about your ad – the odd pose, butt in the air, the skin tight jeans, the sexy blowing hair – it is all a mind-numbingly sophomoric use of implied sex to sell a product. The thing is, for everyone who uses (used) ChapStick, we know that those little tubes go missing all of the time, and there were dozens of other very clever ways for you to depict this. But you didn’t. You chose to go with “Ass”.

So I no longer go with ChapStick. This weekend I spent $16.00 on four tubes of Burt’s Bees and I love my new balm. I’ll be a Burt’s customer now, because I don’t have to worry about them sexualizing and degrading me or my daughter, nor reinforcing to my husband and son that women are nothing more than sex objects. That is simply not good enough for my family, and I do not accept it.

Sincerely,

Melissa Wardy

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UPDATE: Because ChapStick is deleting voices from Facebook and does not have a Twitter account, should you choose to join you voice and speak out against this, I encourage a mailed letter, or add your signature to the change.org petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-pfizer-healthcare-chapstick-remove-ads-that-objectify-women-and-sexualize-lip-balm

*Thanks to Justine for sending this! 

They just removed the ad and apologized! 

http://margotmagowan.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/chapstick-removes-ad-and-apologizes/

(via scooterpiebanana)

mostexerent:

THIS IS BAD.. As in CAR WRECK..

Skimpy lapels

Shoulders with divots

Collar gap

Shirt collar has no life

& that origami peacock in the breast pocket..

What’s worse is that indochino.com is using this as advertising..

As you were

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So sit back & enjoy the ride.

theeconomist:

Noma Bar’s simple design illustrates our article on the uses and abuses of the G-word. Genocide is the ultimate crime. All the more reason to use the word carefully.

soundcloud:

The only thing better than the taste of ice cream on a hot summer day? The thrill of anticipation when you first hear the ice cream truck coming down the road! Have a listen to the best ice cream truck sounds on SoundCloud this week on Found Sounds.

smarterplanet:

Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market | ReadWriteWeb

n what’s likely just the beginning of a long-term story, job listings indexed by employment search engine Indeed.com indicate that market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with “big data” took a huge leap over the last year. David Smith of Revolution Analytics performed several related queries and posted the results today on his company’s blog. The most common definition of “big data” is datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools, such as Excel. It’s a soft term and is super trendy right now - but that doesn’t mean the trend’s not big and real.

One meal a day keeps the doctor away. That said you may need something else to stop world hunger, but it’s worth trying! Malthus is a one pit stop for fish and vegetables that one can cultivate fish as well as grow vegetables in a perfect symbiosis.

Malthus, by Conceptual Devices

lifeattractslife:

(Source: meantimebetweenfailure, via smarterplanet)