#the broadview security one somehow also holds up as a more insightful discussion of the true crime genre than like. 93% of podcasts

[thewynne]

I do need everyone in the notes to see the original ca. 2010 Target: Women sketch on the og scantily clad Carl's Jr. ads (which were also terrible in a simpler way)

while being depressing, this is also sort of fascinating to me bc there’s something so…inauthentic here. what i mean is that if you saw something like this back in say 2001 (which you probably wouldn’t, at least for carl’s jr. but i digress) it would seem tacky but in a “sex sells” sort of way.

seeing this in 2025, it’s clearly purely a political statement and you can tell partially bc the image itself is so oddly sexless. it’s like there’s more titillation in the prospect of “owning the libs” than in the image of the scantily clad blonde white woman itself.