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Say What? Sarah Haskins Rages Against the Machine

TresSugar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800

“As the Internet and TV and movies all become one scary machine in your living room, it’s important that we all have some level of media literacy."

- Sarah Haskins, who sends up ads directed at women in her amazing Target Women clips on Current TV. She thinks advertisers show how clueless they are about women by doing two incompatible things at once: "trying to still use some of the traditional gender roles, while also trying to match the changes . . . in the past 40 to 50 years."

Learn How to Get Hot Chicks: Don't Watch TV Ads

TresSugar — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0700

If men listened to television ads, they'd think that smaller was better (BK Burger Bites), that women love the smell of rancid cologne (Axe), and that you can cover up the fact that you haven't bathed or washed your sheets in ages (Febreze). Not only that, but they'd think that really hot chicks don't just put up with that stuff - they looove it! (And we wonder why men and women have trouble knowing what the other half wants.)

It Takes Scheming, Training, and Tricks to Catch a Man

TresSugar — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0700

The other day someone suggested that the book He's Just Not That Into You be required reading for adolescent girls destined to chase after uninterested men. It may be true that a lot of women have found help from relationship books, but when you pile up all the how-to-fall-in-love books out there, it's easy to feel like publishers are trying to make you panic your way into marriage. At least that's what Sarah Haskins makes of it all. Check out her most recent video all about the dating advice industry.

Sarah Haskins on the Angelina Reaction Shot to Jen at the Oscars

GiggleSugar — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:00:00 -0800

OMG, OMG Jennifer Aniston was five feet - no, no less than ten feet - wait! - less than three feet away from Angelina and Brad at the Oscars! This is deserving of some straight up Grassy Knoll chartage, dude. Enter Sarah Haskins, mocker of dumb celebrity news.

Bad Vampire Men: Why Are They So Hot?

GiggleSugar — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:00:00 -0800

I love Sarah Haskins. She's reminding all of us crazy ladies who are in love with Edward Cullen/Rob Pattinson from Twilight that the dude is basically the classic bad boy, only, he's got fangs. "What if I'm not the hero," Edward asks Bella, "What if I'm the bad guy?" "Then I will totally sleep with you!" Sarah responds. So true, so true. (Make sure you watch until the end when one of Sarah's writers does a dramatic reading. Freaking hilarious, and he kinda looks like Pattinson, too!)

Sarah Haskins on Birth Control Pill Ads

GiggleSugar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:00:23 -0700

I never noticed until Sarah Haskins (my new comedic hero) points it out here, but, ads for birth control pills never talk about their main selling point: you can have sex without getting pregnant! It's always about controlling or eliminating your period. She snarks, "Well, now we don't have to leave the tribe and go sit in that hut for a week. That was a bummer!" And as for the "small comfortable once monthly vaginal ring"? Umm, I'll pass.

Botox: It's All About Expressing Yourself!

GiggleSugar — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Sarah Haskins has a lot to say about ads targeted to women. Take Botox. What is it really? Well, it's needles in your face releasing botulism and paralyzing all human expression so that asking, "Does this make my ass look big?" doesn't look any different on your face than exclaiming, "The house is on fire." That's all! Express yourself, ladies - by asking your doctor about Botox cosmetic.

Berlusconi's Mistress Tells Us More Than We Need to Know

TresSugar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:30:23 -0800

Italians really take their sex scandals to the next level. Today, Patrizia D'Addario, former call girl mistress to Italy's "I'm no saint" prime minister, adds a "lesbian dimension" to her tale of sex, power, and retaliation.

Patrizia has a book coming out and excerpts reveal that she has been the target of threats, robbery, and violence after going public about her affair with Silvio Berlusconi. But that's not stopping her. Describing a party held at Berlusconi's home, Patrizia shares the prime minister's preference for white silk pajamas and women who like other women. To see an excerpt, read more.

Patrizia writes:

"Other girls arrived, including a pair of lesbians, and a few other escorts. . . My first thought was that I'd found myself in a harem. He was on the couch and all of us, 20 girls in all, were at his disposition."

While the presence of lesbians probably seems relatively inconsequential, it might upset Italian citizens who were otherwise willing to dismiss heterosexual escapades. And as the Guardian reports, Berlusconi can say good-bye to a recent break from bad press: "The publication of D'Addario's book will divert public attention back to the affair after a period in which the focus had been on another sex scandal involving the former center-left governor of the region around Rome. Piero Marrazzo resigned after being filmed taking drugs and having sex with a transsexual." Mama mia.

War on Drugs Makes Women the Enemy

TresSugar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:00:45 -0800

If you've been following the story of Cleveland's alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell, you know it's horrific. Eleven female bodies have been found in and around the man's home, leaving the public wondering how could these crimes go on undetected for years. Writing in the Daily Beast, Cleveland journalist Mansfield Frazier says he knows why: Sowell was able to kill drug-addicted women without anyone noticing because the war on drugs targets women. Let's examine the evidence he uses to support this allegation after the jump.

Women the Target of Sexual Advances By Religious Leaders

TresSugar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0700

There's a new survey out there that will make you say: "Oh my God!" According to Baylor University researchers, one in every 33 women who attend religious services regularly has been a target of sexual advances made by a religious leader. What's worse, two-thirds of the offending leaders were married when they hit on a worshiper.

Luckily, many denominations treat relations between leaders and worshipers like sexual harassment in the workplace. The Rabbinical Assembly, a group of conservative rabbis, officially states that the "power imbalance between clergy and those to whom the minister makes it clear that sexual contacts in these situations are by definition nonconsensual." In addition, many faiths have clergy go through mandatory training on how to prevent sexual misconduct. But based on the survey, which reveals widespread misconduct, it appears more efforts are needed.

Do these results surprise you? Is there nowhere a woman can go free from sexual advances?