Differences in approach

Ever just read someone who you end up wanting to make write "Brevity is the soul of wit" 50 times on a blackboard, Bart Simpson style?

At Feministing, Cara has found a head-smackingly dumb ad. All that is really needed is to call attention to how head-smackingly dumb it is, something which shouldn't take more than seven words, tops.

Cara? 453 words. With the dumb puns (hers), and the offensive and the misogyny this, and the women as sexual objects that and the overkill overkill overkill overkill....

And then, to wrap things up, she ends on a cum joke.

The head-smackingly dumb ad isn't funny (at all), but it's still funnier than the cum joke.

Admittedly something like this is not a feminist problem as much as it is a blogging problem, or maybe, for me, a "world" problem. But I suspect that things very much like it are part of what makes strong, smart, fantastic and pro equal-rights women hesitate before calling themselves feminists.

It's certainly part of why I do.