The Working Women’s Survival Show = SHAM
Filed under: Vexed - March 4, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
I hate the Working Women’s Survival Show. I think they want you to believe that it is a feminist empowering sort of thing, but it’s not. I’ve been once or twice and was disgusted. Talk about false advertising - they should call it the “Hey Greedy Bitches - Free Samples! Show.”
A friend of mine went to the last one that was just here in St. Louis. She reported back to me:
I went to the Working Women’s Survival show for the first time. For some odd reason I was expecting it to be more focused on empowering women, but it seems that the majority of working women are surviving by buying a lot of stuff for their hair.
Whatever, I did engage in advanced trick or treating for samples, so it was all well and good……until sandwiched in between all the other booths on home improvement and hairspray, was a big pro-life booth, complete with all the fetus models and the fliers pointing out that abortion is the number one killer of African Americans.
I didn’t notice any other booths blatantly proselytizing their beliefs in the same manner as that….and there sure as hell wasn’t a pro choice booth. I was so insta-angry about the whole thing that I even forgot to ask the ProLifers if they had any samples.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Free samples of RU486 which I always hear as “Are you for 86?”
To which the answer is always, “If I’m taking it, I’m allllll for it.”
March 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Doesn’t surprise me at all, most events marketed to the masses are lame and fake. Their usually about selling/advertising some stupid fucking products to a bunch of lemmings who line up with glee to buy crap they don’t need.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
My mom used to take me to the WWSS. she says in earlier years they gave her more free shit than they do now. It is really more directed to Women As Consumers And Buyers Of Household Shit.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
When I was in high school, my girlfriends and I managed to acquire several shots of Tequila Rose and Tarantula there without being IDed. So, some good has come out of it.
But yeah…it’s pretty much the ilk of modern commercialism.