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Something Wick-Ed This Way Comes

Anna — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:10:00 EDT

[Washington, June 3. Image via Getty]

WASHINGTON - JUNE 03: A woman holds a candle during a vigil for TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been detained by North Korea for the last two months, at Freedom Plaza June 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ling and Lee, who worked for the California-based Current TV which was founded by former Vice President Al Gore, have been accused illegally entering the country to commit 'hostile acts.' The two journalists are expected to be put on a trail on Thursday in Pyongyang. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

North Korea Sets Court Date For U.S. Journalists

Margaret — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:20:00 EDT

Ugh: CNN reports that Current TV journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee will be tried in a North Korean court next month. They are accused of entering the country illegally and intending "hostile acts." [CNN]

Diamonds Are Not Sarah Haskins' Best Friend

Jessica — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:30:00 EST

On this installment of Target: Women, Sarah Haskins digs her claws into insidious jewelry ads clogging up our cable.

"All kinds of white, middle class heterosexual people give each other jewelry at Christmas to say that they love each other," Sarah explains. Diamonds are forever, she points out, "Just like roaches!" Clip above.

Target Women: Jewlery [Current]

Car Commercials Drive Sarah Haskins Crazy

Dodai — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:30:00 EST

Have some of the most important moments of your life taken place in a car? Does your car make phone calls for you? Is your car delicious? Is your car erotic? Our favorite funny lady, Sarah Haskins, takes a look at the ways that automobile marketers try to take women for a ride. Clip above.

Target Women: Cars [Current TV]
Earlier: Condoms, Cleaning Supplies & Crap: A Q&A With Sarah Haskins

Sarah Haskins Targets The View

Dodai — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:30:00 EST

We've been so busy around here, we haven't had a chance to get to the new Target: Women video! Sarah Haskins calls the ladies of The View a "living, breathing, real-time focus group." Plus, they do what what women love to do: Talk. "Sometimes, they talk all at once!" But Haskins understands: "Democracy's messy like that." Since Joy Behar hearts Obama and Elisabeth Hasselbeck is in the tank for McCain, guess who represents the undecided voters of America? Hint: The one who thinks the earth is flat. Clip above!

Target Women: The View [Current]
Earlier: Condoms, Cleaning Supplies & Crap: A Q&A With Sarah Haskins

This Week We Were Rage-O-Holics And Our Drug Of Choice Was Palin

Jessica — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Only eight more weeks, people! At least we have hilarious helpers like Sarah Haskins and Samantha Bee to shepherd us through these difficult times.
I don't know if you'd heard, it's kind of under the radar, but Bristol Palin is pregnant. Some of us think it is a non-issue.
Others of us want to use it to question Palin's policy on education, abortion, and health care.
But you know, asking Palin questions about these things is just SEXIST, you pinko media elites!

Our very own media elite, Megan, braved the RNC so we didn't have to.

Instead, we sat at home with our righteous, indignant, borderline insane rage.
Ok. Deep breaths people. You know what? It's Friday. Find your own personal Levi The Defiler and bang the crap out of that gum-chewing troglodyte! It'll get your mind off things. Just remember use a rubber.

Sarah Haskins Is A Sucker For RomComs

Dodai — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Sarah Haskins' latest "Target: Women" targets chick flicks. "There are three comedies coming out this fall aimed at women," she says. "You have seen them all before. But you will see them all again." Haskins comments on upcoming films Happy Go Lucky, The Women, and The Accidental Husband — as well as oldies-but-goodies like Never Been Kissed and Sweet Home Alabama. Why are women suckers for romcoms? "The romantic comedy is the modern fairy tale, and we're the princesses," she explains. Oh, yeah, and two words: Colin Firth.

Target Women: Chick Flicks [Current]
Sarah Haskins On Chick Flicks [Salon]

Sarah Haskins Wishes You Happy Period Control

Dodai — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT

We've been meaning to get to the new video from Sarah Haskins for a while! This time, Sarah's "Target Women" takes aim at birth control. At advertisements for birth control, that is — which never mention babies, or pregnancy, but always mention periods. Yup, they're actually selling period control. And hey, what about that small, comfortable, once monthly vaginal ring? Yeah. She goes there. Clip above.

Earlier: Sarah Haskins Has A Problem With Marketing Family Meals To Moms
Brides, Botox & Yogurt: Sarah Haskins Targets Those Who Target Women

Sarah Haskins Has A Problem With Marketing Family Meals To Moms

Dodai — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:40:00 EDT

Our new favorite, wonderfully funny critic, Sarah Haskins, is at it again. Her new video, Target Women: Feeding Your F—-ing Family dissects and pokes fun at commercials for brands like Manwich, Crock-Pot, Tyson Chicken Breast and El Pollo Loco — in which women are encouraged to keep their kids and husband happy with food. Sarah would rather order takeout Pad Thai, making her a woman after our own stomachs. The clip, after the jump.

Target Women: Feeding Your F—-ing Family [Current]
Earlier: Brides, Botox & Yogurt: Sarah Haskins Targets Those Who Target Women

This Week We Wrote Love Letters And Read Smutty Novels

Jessica — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:40:00 EDT

We learned that dressing for success means always wearing a muumuu.
We debuted a new feature called Shelf Pleasuring wherein we read 70s books full of sexytimes.
You guys, friends don't make friends get boob jobs.
They also don't let you board planes with a ton of weed in your suitcase

Friends do, however, allow you to develop girl crushes on femi-friendly Current TV hosts.
Also girl crush material: sofa king gorgeous Indian models<
Speaking of models, Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova jumped from her apartment building on Sunday night and died. Our Tatiana weighed in on the depersonalization and loneliness rampant in the modeling business.
But hey! It's not all a bummer this week: we discussed the swoony fanmail we wrote as wee ones.
So enjoy the long weekend, bitches! This bitch will be celebrating her tail off for the fourth and so should you.

Brides, Botox & Yogurt: Sarah Haskins Targets Those Who Target Women

Dodai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Recently, while searching for that damn all-black issue of Italian Vogue, I gazed upon a shelf at a bookstore labeled "Women's Interest." The shelf was filled with wedding magazines. (And underneath: Cooking.) Really? Women have no other interest? I was still seething about this when I saw Sarah Haskins' "Target Women: Weddings" video over on Current TV. It's a teardown of all the bride and wedding-related shows on the We channel. The clips of Bridezillas and Bulging Brides programs filled me with hate. Watching svelte women be told they're too fat to get married and watching women who are getting married act like selfish, egomaniacal, misanthropic sociopaths not only made me hate the wedding industry, but the We channel. And women. And humanity. Thanks, Sarah Haskins! You're hilarious. And, um. Who are you?

Salon writer Kate Harding has a girlcrush on her. NPR interviewed her about the female vote. You've seen her mocking yogurt that makes you poop. But do you know Sarah Haskins? She's a Harvard-educated funnylady whose segments on Current TV's infoMania deal with issues like botox. She's a Chicago comedy alum who has recently moved to L.A. She likes Sesame Street and Eddie Izzard. And, in an interview with Chicago comedy blog The Bastion, Ms. Haskins is asked, point blank: Are you a feminist? She answers thusly:

Yes, I’m a feminist. It is an extension of my lifelong war against pantyhose. To me it means that as women we are individuals before we are gendered people and that we’re not defined by our gender except in the ways we chose to appropriate that definition. We’re in a weird generation, right? Our Moms were forced to grapple with that definition more immediately, and I think it’s changed as we’ve grown up. The core issue "how do I fight bias against me because of my gender" is still there but has gotten more complicated and wrapped into all kinds of identity issues about how you present yourself as a woman and I pretty much think it's your choice and fuck pantyhose.

Yeah, okay, it's official, I love you. What's next for Sarah Haskins? "Ultimate goals? Nobel Prize for Literature," she says. "Failing that, I would like a long career where I do a lot of different things. I look at the careers of people like Mike Nichols, Tina Fey, and Steve Martin — they've all done great work in a number of roles and mediums. I hope to make a few good things." You already have, my friend. You already have!

Peep the awesome bride-oriented video below:

Sarah Haskins on "Angry" women voters:

Sarah Haskins on Botox:

Sarah Haskins on yogurt:

New episodes of infoMania go up every Thursday night.

Sarah Haskins Casts Her 'Lady' Vote [NPR]
Girl Crush: Sarah Haskins [Salon]
Inside With: Sarah Haskins [The Bastion]
Related: infoMania [Current]

Current TV has an amusing send up of the...

Jessica — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:40:00 EDT

Current TV has an amusing send up of the way yogurt is marketed towards women. The best part is when the video's narrator, Sarah Haskins, describes the yogurt eater as the gray-hoodie wearing demographic who has "I have a masters but then I got married" look. But on the serious, that yogurt that makes you poop is amazing. [Current TV]