Blog profile
After learning that my high school stint at McDonald’s wouldn’t get me a job at a mag, I worked as a freelance journalist for a few years. With much haggling and many annoying phone calls, I got a job at Cosmo! As web ed, no two days are the same – some days I’ll be at a video or photo shoot, others I’m interviewing celebs or updating myself on the latest goss (all for research purposes, obviously).
Apart from that, I have a healthy addiction to cupcakes, clutches and Christian Bale. I once watched a VH1 countdown of ‘The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever’ and was proud to announce that I loved every last one of them. I’m very good at tripping over, talking too loud and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Oh … and in an acrostic poem that my friends wrote about me, the “e” in my name stood for “embarrassing.”
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Mon 21
Sexism + racism = 2008?
Lessons in political correctness lost on Wicked Campers
Seems Wicked Campers - and the Advertising Standards Board - has had quite a busy week. Not only have they been criticised - by a Premier, no less - for their racist slogans, they've also been ordered to ditch their sexist catchcries.
You've probably seen a Wicked Camper van at some point - they're notable for their graffiti on the outside and backpackers on the inside. Each features a timely, often funny slogan intended to catch your eye.
But this time, it seems the company has taken things too far. The ASB has ordered that Wicked Campers remove the slogans, "If God was a woman, sperm would taste like chocolate" and "Women are like banks - once you withdraw, you lose interest." There were four other complaints that were dismissed because of a lack of visual evidence. Among those complaints was one lodged by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh - about a slogan that reads, "Save a Whale - Harpoon a Jap."
Is anyone else having trouble believing that people still make comments like these in 2008?
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