where are the little golden chainsaw awards though
Good news: with Cannes/The Advertising Oscars winding down, your Instagram feed will soon return to its usual brunch:selfie ratio, now that literally every angle of the South of France has been documented, filtered and hashtagged to death by those annoying advertising friends / celebrities you hate-follow.
Other good news: now’s your time to catch up on reading about advertising’s still ~fraught~ relationship with women:
1. Like did you see this nonconsensual-as-fuck ad from BBDO that somehow (aka, because of men) won a Bronze Lion?
2. These women at the Cannes Lions are trying to track down the OG Peggy Olsons. I hope they found them!! And bought them like, a rack of tequila shots and presented them with little golden chainsaws to commemorate the work involved in breaking that glass ceiling.
3. This super enlightening Atlantic article on how the stereotype of a lesbian driving a Subaru actually stems back to some really progressive 90s marketing! Makes all the brands blithely putting rainbow filters on their logos this month look really spineless in comparison, tbh.
4. If more than 60 percent of PR professionals are women, there can’t possibly be a wage gap there, right? Ugh, NOPE. I’d ask for some Bayer aspirin, but see link #1. Will maybe just buy this wage gap aware alarm clock instead...
Like Deez Links? Forward to the Peggy or Joan Holloway in ur life. Have a bless't weekend!