Little girls can buy pencil cases with the Playboy logo on. Playboy is infiltrating girls’ culture from early ages, able to buy jewellery and clothes also bearing the logo, usually completely oblivious to its meanings. In this way we see how the brand is subtly and successfully enabling women to accept and approbate the implications of what Playboy is, and how it objectifies women - our realisation of this being completely dulled due to its constant presence in our culture. Women as sexualised objects is no longer a contested concept, because it is ever present to the extent that it is the norm.
March 2010
“we took the twine we used to use
to tie up tight our tattered shoes” —mewithoutYou, yellow spider
to tie up tight our tattered shoes” —mewithoutYou, yellow spider
“i wish that i believed in fate
i wish i didn’t sleep so late” —the national, mr november
i wish i didn’t sleep so late” —the national, mr november
“i need some meaning i can memorize
the kind i have always seems to slip my mind” —bright eyes, lover i don’t have to love
the kind i have always seems to slip my mind” —bright eyes, lover i don’t have to love
Trouble
Elliott Smith
elliott smith, trouble (cat stevens cover)
“i don’t know what to do with your clothes or your letters
it’ll make a whisper out of you” —elliott smith, condor ave.
it’ll make a whisper out of you” —elliott smith, condor ave.
Play
“placid as i melt into the sea”
—the xx, crystalised
