I thought we had left behind the world of the portrayal of woman as being mindless drones living solely to make the men in their lives happy. Someone needs to let Proctor & Gamble know this. They are currently running a series of commercials, here in Canada, called Home Made Simple. Now I have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Evils of Advertising'
June Cleaver + Stepford Wives = Proctor & Gamble
April 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Evils of Advertising · Rants
Facebook looses face - time for guerilla action
December 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Facebook has a big plate of eggs on its face after it came to light about their Beacon information collection. It has highlighted the current information gathering frenzy going on in the Internet.
It seems to be the vogue to collect streams of data and then claim it is part of a “technical checking process” as [...]
Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Corporate Greed · Dubious Marketing · Evils of Advertising · Internet · Rants
Another peculiar moment here at catpaw central
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
There must be something in the air here in Toronto. No, I’m not talking about the cold, the snow, the wind we are having, I’m talking about something much less tangible. I can’t seem to travel along the subway without having ‘thoughts’. Oh get your mind out of the sewer! Not that kind of thoughts.
Everytime [...]
Tags: Celebrity · Day in the Life · Evils of Advertising · Fashion industry · Humour · Rants · Silly Moments · TV · Toronto
Ridiculous body images mean huge bank accounts
October 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Dove soap has a new video out - a frightening and illuminating short that is the perfect companion piece to their earlier work, evolution.
The new video is a blitz on the senses, travelling at high speed through all the artificial images of beauty, society is assaulted with on a daily basis. In many ways, the [...]
Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Celebrity · Corporate Greed · Dove · Dubious Marketing · Evils of Advertising · Fashion industry · Rants


