Lisa Hymas of grist.org recently did a post on how Sex and the City is the greenest movie of the year because the lead character Carrie, even though she does not realize it, exemplifies a greenish lifestyle – she has no car, does not travel much, and most importantly she is childfree. The same goes for Samantha, so it makes two of the four in the group leading lives without motherhood (character Miranda and Charlotte are moms), which is more than what real stats would reflect.
While I don’t think it’s the greenest movie of the year (yo-the characters are quite the consumers), it got me thinking about the real women. How “green “are they in their real lives from a reproductive standpoint? Let’s start with Sarah Jessica Parker… (more…)
Have you seen how Toyota is marketing one its mini-vans? Talk about stereotypes, and a sore attempt at rap.
Ads like this disturb me. It’s a staunch reminder of the power of advertising and how it seriously reinforces the values all of us are ”supposed “to have. Advertising has staggering statistics: the average city-dweller is exposed to 5,000 advertising messages a day, the average household watches more than ..
On a previous post I wrote about Lisa Hymas, senior editor at grist, who wrote about the value of being childfree from an environmental perspective. She also did a great interview on MSNBC this week:
In part she talks about what childfree have been talking about for while now – that the choice not to have children is not talked about enough (although it is talked about much more these days than in the past), and when it is, the childfree sentiment is At Last, someone wants to hear from us!
Lisa Hymas of grist.org recently did a post on how Sex and the City is the greenest movie of the year because the lead character Carrie, even though she does not realize it, exemplifies a greenish lifestyle – she has no car, does not travel much, and most importantly she is childfree. The same goes for Samantha, so it makes two of the four in the group leading lives without motherhood (character Miranda and Charlotte are moms), which is more than what real stats would reflect.
