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Showing posts with label criticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criticism. Show all posts
Friday, January 25, 2019

Gillette: The Best A Man Can Get Ad: U Mad about This?

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Gillette ruffled some feathers last week with an ad about masculinity, pointing out things that happen, like bullying, casual violence, ...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Pyeongchang Olympics Are Here! Brace For the Letdown!

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The Pyeongchang Olympics are here! Some of my friends are really excited about this, so of course I take it as my Roboseyoly duty to throw ...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Comfort Women Deal A Month Later: Nothing New, Still Gross

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When news of the latest "Final deal" regarding the Comfort Women came out on December 28, I wasn't as excited as a few of my ...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Korean Mothers are the Best, you Know: Facepalm

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The Korea Times came out with a howler of an article recently, mistakenly using the headline " Tips for Keeping Partners from Cheating...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Tumblr Feminists: So What?

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This is a re-worked version of a post I wrote last month. If you read that one, don't bother with this one. I don't like editing po...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

How to make EBS's Racism Video Mean Something

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Update: for two great views on this topic, please read these pieces side by side: The Metropolitician: "Be White" Adeel "T...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Overpackaging In Seoul: Has Anything Changed?

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A bit over a year ago I made this video to point out the extreme level of overpackaging many products have in Seoul: even Wifeoseyo's mo...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Chosun Ilbo Has it in for Career Women

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Yet another condescending article lacking in sources, dealing in stereotypes about Korean women in the workplace. Now I'm not sure if t...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

TrashCat is not amused.

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(picture source ) Korean stereotypes of English teachers spreads all the way to ABC News.   Completely not surprised to find a Korean name o...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

After moaning about Dunkins in my last post. . .

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At least they got this much right: how to handle potentially/actually offensive content in an ad . From the linked article, about a Dunkin...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

for all the alienated weiguks living in Korea: Hail Nathan, defender of English Teachers!

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I found this on Foreign/er , a random find from the Korean blog list, and found it very interesting to watch. them cultural lines just keep ...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Why Modern Religion Deserves Richard Dawkins, Part 4: Why Should I Listen To You? or The Crisis in Moral Authority

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Soundtrack time: hit play and start reading. I'm intentionally choosing religious music outside my own culture for this essay. Nusrat Fa...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

Why Modern Religion Deserves Richard Dawkins: Part three: The Straw Man We Gave Him

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Soundtrack: just hit play and start reading. REM: Losing My Religion To read the other essays in my Richard Dawkins series: The previous ess...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Why Modern Religion Deserves Richard Dawkins: Part two: Creation/Evolution, Science and Anti-intellectualism

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For the sake of length, attention span, and aesthetics, I moved my summary of Richard Dawkins' explanation of darwinism/origins here . ...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Why Modern Religion Deserves Richard Dawkins, Part 1: Parameters

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To read the other essays in my Richard Dawkins series: The previous essay . Table of contents . Background for the next essay . The next ess...
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