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...positive, though. Britain's right-leaning Daily Telegraph newspaper called the campaign "dour and humorless" and some bloggers were nastier still. The Moores believe they've hit a nerve, and the issue clearly resonates far beyond Britain. In the U.S., "it's kind of reached ridiculous proportions," says Brown. "[Parents] are saying, 'I can't find anything other than pink for my daughter.'" What Pinkstinks is doing, Brown adds, "is using the color pink to get at something more complex, and that's the way girls are being packaged and sold, and sold out through marketing." (See 25 people...
...Oddly, this is happening as opportunities for women have expanded dramatically in the Western world. Brown says the two trends may be linked. The blurring of traditional gender roles as women succeed in the workplace and girls outperform boys in school has created an anxiety that advertisers have capitalized on, she argues. "Those stereotypes get pronounced at a time when girls and boys alike are really questioning, and living their lives in much more complicated ways," she says...
Argyle clad, overly competitive, and of course snobby—this is what a typical Harvard student looks like—at least according to Brown...
...Brown University South Asian Students Association (SASA) recently produced a series of videos promoting their 2010 event, Nashaa. All three of the videos, modeled after Apple's "Mac vs. PC" commericials, feature a Brown student and a "Harvard student" having conversations about school and extra-curriculars. Here are some highlights...
...first video, "Family Reunion," Brown and Harvard talk about a "family reunion" amongst all of the Ivy League schools. In typical Harvard manner, Harvard complains about Yale and is overly competitive. The Brown student is, of course, the relaxed, hipster stereotype, sporting a beanie and a flannel shirt. One of FlyBy's favorite lines: "Listen Harvard, you gotta calm down. We're all brothers here. And then there's Cornell...