I think a better comparison than “Hilltop” from Coke, which was made in a very different, less skeptical time, is Coke’s more recent “America the Beautiful”, with the song being sung in several languages. Why was that ad effective and Pepsi’s not? Part of it has to be that massive corporations are more believable as…

All of these exist with the sole purpose of being featured in instagram photoshoots.

My Uber driver was yelling at me about urban flight from Chicago last Saturday, and I was like “Don’t worry, there will always be a new crop of Midwest college students to take their place.” I suspect New York is the same. There will always be a new generation of wide-eyed dreamers ready to realize Manhattan has…

I’ll buy Indifferent Tank Top because it’s cute, dammit, not because I’d wanna give a guy a handy while wearing it.

Remember when we used to be mad at American Apparel ads?

Isn’t that third pic two guys or do I need better glasses?

If they’re supposed to be selling clothes they are failing because I can’t tell what any of those clothes are supposed to look like when they’re on except the orange top.

Cheryl Wischhover nails the trend’s “infantilizing” tendency for Racked: “Reconciling being a grown-ass lady who pays rent and buys her own condoms while also enjoying wearing holographic lip gloss that looks like unicorn tears can be tricky, but who doesn’t want to be recognized as magical, I guess?”

Plus...wouldn’t someone just snatch it off your head?

Actually, the Republicans have the House, the Senate and the White House. The Democrats are livid and mad at what happened last November that they are far more motivated to turn out and vote out as many Republicans as they can now. The sixth Congressional District in Georgia---the one where Rep. Price left to take the…

I’ve heard that this is exactly what all the Russian experts think was/is Putin’s main objective.

I refuse to normalize this nonsense. I keep telling everyone around me that this is NOT okay. My sister voted for the first time last election (she’s 25) and my best friend has never, ever voted - not even last election - but she finally registered a month ago because she is now officially scared shitless. It’s a…

Or! Or...

I’m cautiously optimistic, especially with the head-to-head polls showing his small leads over all but one of the Repubs candidates. We’ve gotten daily campaign mailers from Ossoff for the last week or so, and his is the only TV ad I remember seeing, so they’re giving it the old college try. But most of the yard signs…

Speaking of making Trump mad, early voting starts today in GA-6. If you’re in East Cobb and Sandy Springs, go vote for Jon Ossoff! I can’t because I’m a mile outside the district, but my high school is — and last week I registered several of my seniors. Also, this tweet delighted me today:

Trump’s approval rating is approaching the percentage of fuckwits in America. They may only be a percentage or two apart, but I doubt his approval will drop below, say 33%. Those idiots love that he lies all the time, love that he’s destroying America, and love love love being assholes just like him.

Exactly. If we want to have a reasonable discussion about dress codes, the way they are constructed and applied, and the social constructions of dress, I am 100% on board for that. But this is basically a bunch of people shouting about something that is literally written out every time you get a ticket as an employee:

Leggings ban?