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The joy and the heartache of Mother’s Day
*Trigger Warning* It’s Mother’s Day and everyone’s posting pictures on social media feeds of themselves as children with their much-adored moms. It’s a sweet gesture and I hope those moms feel the love and maybe have a giggle at long-ago hairstyles and the behind-the-scenes madness it probably took to get that shot. (As a mother […]
TMF: Spidey Sense tingling!
February 20, 2013
Now this particular TMF: Tired Marketing Fail hits closer to home than most because Andrea Shindeldecker of Oak Park, Illinois is a mom after my own heart. You see, her five-year-old daughter LOVES Spiderman! Sure, other superheroes are great and all, but Spidey is tops. Sound like another little girl you’ve heard about on this […]
TMF: Science has no gender
February 10, 2013
Here’s a great example of Tired Marketing Fail being called out. We are not alone! This comes via Facebook from I Fucking Love Science:
The unquenchable desire: On the compulsion for more, more, more
February 1, 2013
Desire is unquenchable. Likewise, it is our attachment to things that causes suffering. Learn to detach from desire, and you’re on your way to enlightenment. Or, so I’ve been told. These days I’ve been thinking a lot about attachments and desires and, well, stuff. All the stuff. From all the shoes that fall out of […]
We need a little Christmas
December 21, 2012
In the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, there’s a conversation about the Buddhist concept of shakubuku, a philosophical argument designed to get you to challenge everything you have ever “known” to be true. A swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever. I think I’m a bit like John Cusack’s character here, “That […]
A Feminist Parent’s Gift Guide
December 14, 2012
Perhaps it is the natural out-growth of keeping an eagle-eye out for Tired Marketing Fails or it is just the nature of being a feminist parent, but I find shopping for my toddler to be the hardest of my entire holiday gift list. We do our best to give our kids an environment that is […]
The round-up: What’s swirling around the web this week?
December 12, 2012
Elf you: Are people really taking the whole Elf on the Shelf thing this seriously? I thought that whole thing was a marketing scam. Apparently, I’m not alone. And PS: I am way too tired for this shit. When less is more: I’ve been following Grist’s #shiftthegift discussion about doubling-down on less materialism for the […]
Called to the principal’s office
December 2, 2012
Last week I awoke to a phone call from my daughter’s day school administrator. “Did you know that your daughter has a rash?” she said in the same curt, accusatory tone she uses at all times (or at least every time I have spoken with her). It’s 8 am and I had elected to sleep […]
The gift of the grandparents
November 19, 2012
Don’t look now but we are actually in the holiday season. Love it. Curse it. Get white-knuckled trying to keep yourself from hiding under a rock… It’s here, my lovelies. Actually, I think the holidays are sort of like a corporate-ninjas — soundlessly moving the dial back a little more each year. If my calculations […]
TMF: You are how you eat?
July 31, 2012
Friend and reader Kris spotted this Tired Marketing Fail while at Old Navy. Gender norms: It’s what’s for lunch:
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