Comments on: The Starter Wife! Oh my… http://theoryculture.com/42/the-starter-wife-oh-my/ Just another WordPress site Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:17:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Price of Freedom:Heteronormativity & Human Blood, $399 and up « Objectify This http://theoryculture.com/42/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-77 Price of Freedom:Heteronormativity & Human Blood, $399 and up « Objectify This Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:13:07 +0000 http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-77 [...] of symbolic emblems of independence denotes freedom is denoted by is pathetically ironic. John on Theory My Culture notes that Slate.com writer Seth Stevenson “makes a funny remark on the Pond’s/USA [...] [...] of symbolic emblems of independence denotes freedom is denoted by is pathetically ironic. John on Theory My Culture notes that Slate.com writer Seth Stevenson “makes a funny remark on the Pond’s/USA [...]

]]> By: marinaw http://theoryculture.com/42/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-76 marinaw Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:16:42 +0000 http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-76 wow, thanks for the great post. it's truly alarming that Mulvey's theories about spectatorship transition so nicely into Debord's about consumers. I haven't read him yet and look forward to it. Marina W. (ObjectifyThis) wow, thanks for the great post. it’s truly alarming that Mulvey’s theories about spectatorship transition so nicely into Debord’s about consumers. I haven’t read him yet and look forward to it.
Marina W. (ObjectifyThis)

]]> By: Jay http://theoryculture.com/42/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-74 Jay Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:42:14 +0000 http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-74 "Competition between women is the classic diversionary conflict, but that’s just fab for certain ideological forms - in particular, capitalism, which counts on the individuation of conflict in order to divert the attentive gaze away from questions of systematic exploitation." ... "they will surely reproduce notions of empowering that, well, just move the pieces around. And never think about alternative ways of living. That’s exactly what it means to say that ideology reproduces itself across seemingly real and even radical social changes." I “Competition between women is the classic diversionary conflict, but that’s just fab for certain ideological forms – in particular, capitalism, which counts on the individuation of conflict in order to divert the attentive gaze away from questions of systematic exploitation.”
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“they will surely reproduce notions of empowering that, well, just move the pieces around. And never think about alternative ways of living. That’s exactly what it means to say that ideology reproduces itself across seemingly real and even radical social changes.”

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]]> By: Emily http://theoryculture.com/42/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-75 Emily Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:33:27 +0000 http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comment-75 Seth Stevenson is one of my favorite writers, and I love the link he puts in that piece about the right-hand diamond ring--to a 2003 press release by the diamond industry, pushing this new product, the diamond you buy for yourself. Really very funny, very terrible. I felt myself pulled into watching the show--they've been running ads for it since the last season of Monk, a show that totally rocks. Now I'm giving it a second thought. But speaking of creams, women, and ideology, any thoughts on Dove's "campaign for real beauty"? Seth Stevenson is one of my favorite writers, and I love the link he puts in that piece about the right-hand diamond ring–to a 2003 press release by the diamond industry, pushing this new product, the diamond you buy for yourself. Really very funny, very terrible. I felt myself pulled into watching the show–they’ve been running ads for it since the last season of Monk, a show that totally rocks. Now I’m giving it a second thought.

But speaking of creams, women, and ideology, any thoughts on Dove’s “campaign for real beauty”?

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