sex, art, and politics

milkeemountainmama:

note-a-bear:

sexartandpolitics:

minou replied to your post:Obama needs to license that Chrysler ad.

What bullshit Detroit exploitation ad is it this year?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PE5V4Uzobc

But seriously, halftime = end of first term and the GOP hates the auto bailouts.

Also Clint Eastwood and a lot of white people should play well with some demographic that is not me.

^^^^

This made me want to rip my hair out.

Just…ugh

i don’t know. there are a LOT of us who really love the made in detroit commercials. and think that they present a much more nuanced, complex representation of detroit than most even liberal media does. the main critique of those commercials has more to do with how the car companies are what *caused* these problems and now they’re supposed to be *saving* us from them? rather than exploitation. chysler IS detroit, so in a strange way, they have just as much of a need to improve and complicate detroit’s media image as the average detroiter does—

i mean, i think these commercials are complicated. they don’t allow a viewer to go “yeah, but decaying houses! violent murderers! scary hell no we won’t go!” and do you know what a radical departure it is from most media to have detroiters positioned as *leaders* out of crisis rather than the *cause* of it?

so there’s a lot of good with these commercials. and there’s a lot of reason for us to really love them. but…are the big three going to save us? when they caused most of the problems to begin with? and does the rest of the US get to be all “we’re all detroit” when they were so willing to see us die but a couple of years ago? when they’re still masturbating to pictures of violence done to detroiters (decay porn)?

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