Forgive me for taking a second to gather thoughts on International Women’s Day, which fell into the media ether on a Sunday that, as Orange Theory pointed out, was only 23 hours long. The day after yet more primaries seems like a fine time to pick up the torch, though, doesn’t it? For your daily listening, I’ll recommend The Daily episode that, just a week out from Elizabeth Warren’s campaign drop, feels pretty assured about the gendered underpinnings of her failure this time around. But I know you want a song, too, so here’s a new single from the second installation of San Fermin’s forthcoming The Cormorant II. While the album is a sprawling, two-part story about a relationship, “Little Star’s” embrace of a promising little girl who can’t be stopped (until she can) easily reads as a moratorium on Warren’s candidacy. Not that we’re projecting or anything. Listen here.
Shell went out of its way to support women on International Women’s Day by adding an apostrophe to their logo, so it read “She’ll,” at a total of ONE gas station. What may as well have been a random tag from a passerby not only insulted women everywhere (ok, mostly on twitter), but also reminded us that equality is probably best saved for the future, as in, “she’ll rule the world some day.” Will she, now.
Hershey is also in the convenient position of having female-sounding letters built into their name. For their Women’s Day campaign, they printed their wrappers with just the “HER” and “SHE” parts, decorating the blank space with work by women artists. Onlooking executives will note that the addition of art elevates the schtick from “keyboard stroke” to “actual campaign.” We’ll attribute that thoroughness to Hershey’s first-ever female CEO, who presumably has her finger on many things in addition to the apostrophe key.
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