Comments on: Speaking out with stickers http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2008/08/31/speaking-out-with-stickers/ a potpourri of mirth and madness Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mary http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2008/08/31/speaking-out-with-stickers/#comment-55 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:12:59 +0000 http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-55 This type of advertising is extremely annoying. The oddest incident I recall was when a man sent me roses through Roses Only, which was doing a cross-promotion with Lipton teas at the time. (Strange in and of itself.) The box of roses came with some of this advertising material — also annoying as the roses had already been purchased — and to top it all of it off the advertising material was all along the lines of “done something bad to a woman? luckily women are easily pacified with a one-off investment in roses and iced tea!”

Stickers don’t help in that situation, but I should invest for the future.

]]> By: Calyx http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2008/08/31/speaking-out-with-stickers/#comment-33 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:49:48 +0000 http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-33 I wonder if Mr. Frantz could please indulge the readers who might not be familiar with the apparent epidemic of misandrist jurisprudence in the West.
After a cursory web search with the words”midandrist laws in the west”, I was unable to come up with any citations of actual laws.
Further, I am also curious as to what constitutes an “increasingly ridiculous” amount of child support, given the arguably complex nature of class, gender, family, and state law.

]]> By: mdz http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2008/08/31/speaking-out-with-stickers/#comment-32 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:43:13 +0000 http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-32 @Joseph James Frantz,

What a curious comment. Which laws do you mean specifically, and in what way do they promote hatred or contempt of men? Do you mean to say that you think the advert was intended as some sort of political commentary? If so, it would be a poor example, as it didn’t inform about any of these supposed issues.

Even if we assume that “Chris” earns the sole income in the household, this doesn’t mean that the money, or financial decisions, are exclusively his. If he works, and his wife provides primary care for the children, that doesn’t make them solely “her” children either. Marriage is a partnership, not a collection of “mine” and “theirs”.

Alimony and child support are concepts in divorce, and are irrelevant to this situation, except insofar as this hypothetical couple might be better off with such an arrangement.

…or are you just a troll?

]]> By: Joseph James Frantz http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2008/08/31/speaking-out-with-stickers/#comment-30 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:03:53 +0000 http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-30 Considering how the laws in the west have becoming increasingly misandrinistic, this ad is not off base at all. If he earned the money, it IS his money. Alimony and child support payments are becoming increasingly ridiculous in their amounts. Nonetheless, the cutesy attempt to endorse infidelity was unneeded.

]]> By: Benjamin Mako Hill http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2008/08/31/speaking-out-with-stickers/#comment-27 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:05:36 +0000 http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-27 The Bubble Project is a wonderful example of sticker art project that deals with advertising: http://www.thebubbleproject.com/

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