OK, the paper trail here is getting kind of long (I found this via Fatistician, who found it via Feministing), but I just couldn’t allow for the possibility that anyone might miss this awesome video. Are there any women out there who actually relate to those execrable Yoplait ads? Incredibly boring and obvious gender straitjacketing, promotion of body insecurity (if you don’t eat yogurt, which may or may not help you get thin–and I’m sure the dairy industry is only interested in the truth and just wants to do all of us a totally altruistic public service by mentioning that it might–it’s just plain inconsiderate of you to even “come out of the locker” and subject other human beings men to the sight of your non-approved body, much less hit the beach in your itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini… hey, isn’t that song, like, 50 years old? I wonder if that’s significant? Well, I’m sure it’s nothing), and anti-fat sentiments, all in one convenient 30-second spot!
(Ouch: “the ‘I have a master’s, but then I got married’ look.” I guess I deserved that, Sarah Haskins, you evil genius. 
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May 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Your title is way better than mine. DAMMIT!
May 12, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Aha… I have used the age-old
intellectually dishonestcreative tactic of not being able to come up with a good title and therefore mindlessly stealing a quotation from whoever I am writing about instead of thinking for myself.Taking that into account I’m going to say that your title is actually better, because it is a) true (even though I personally enjoy the taste of yogurt, it is indeed “gross” to me when considered as the quintessential fake foodstuff of womanhood), and b) your own idea.
May 12, 2008 at 1:16 pm
‘k, I’m going to edit this to credit Haskins in the title, because looking at it again it does kind of look like I said that myself, and I totally didn’t.
May 12, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Title Still good. Unlike Yogurt Commercials.
May 12, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I’ll drink to that. But not one of those nasty Dannon smoothies.
May 12, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I see your Dannon Smoothie and raise you a Go-gurt. BLECH.
May 12, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Oh, ew. I’ve never eaten one of those but they look highly suspect, and even the name sounds vaguely like “regurgitate” to me.
May 24, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Your blog is “I’m finally getting around to clicking on the links to the blogs of people who leave particularly insightful and/or clever and/or well-written comments at Shapely Prose and really, really, really enjoying them and hoping that said bloggers will be my friends” good.
You’re next, shinobi42!
May 26, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Aw, thanks, A Sarah!
I really enjoy your comments over at SP too.