Meme Engine

RSS

What I've been thinking about...

Jun 02

Terry O'Reilly
"Happy Homemaker (exerpts)"
The Age of Persuasion from CBC Radio

This “classic” add for Folgers coffee will leave you shaking your head in disbelief, but as Terry O’Reilly explains, the pressures it applies to women are not gone today, only changed.

The clip runs 2.5 minutes, taken from “The Happy Homemaker” episode of The Age of Persuasion (AOP). The full episodes can be downloaded here. For those who haven’t heard it, the opening credits for AOP are included, because they’re hilarious.

Posted 11 months ago

1 note

audio, spoken word, podcast, aop, Terry O'Reilly, gender, homemaker, house wife, supermom, cbc, folgers, coffee, retro, add, sexist,

isomorphismes likes this
memeengine posted this

Favorite Podcasts:

Ideas with Paul Kennedy on CBC
This American Life from WBEZ
Radiolab from WNYC
The Age of Persuasion from CBC and Pirate Toronto
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
Spark with Nora Young on CBC
99% Invisible with Roman Mars
The Partially Examined Life a philosophy podcast and blog
Suggest a Podcast. Heard any good memes lately?

Books I've Blogged About:

The Dune Saga by Frank Herbert. All the usual speculations about science fiction, plus some of the deepest thoughts about politics, society, and human destiny I've read anywhere.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. Morality from a psychologist's perspective, with a focus on major divides, like Liberal/Democrat, or Religious/Atheist. Haight sees through his self-delusions, and challenges us to do the same.
Microcosm by Carl Zimmer. A close look at what we can learn about ourselves inside our distant cousins, the single-celled organisms. Lots of evolutionary insight into what we are at this baser level!
Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie. A book about memes... ideas and how they participate in their own evolution within human mind and society.
Godel, Escher, Bach the titanic work on math, music, and human consciousness by Douglas Hofstadter.
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. A favorite children's book that became an even more favorite adult book. Full of poetry, metaphor, and wisdom.
Out of Our Heads by Alva Noe. A book about consciousness, and idea that our conception of it should maybe cross the boundary of the skull!