Hello Readers!  We enriched some posts this month.  Enjoy!

Ed L. sent us another good example of the way that a cultural understanding that marriage as about love, a relatively new idea in human history, can be used to normalize gay marriage by pointing out that men and men and women and women can love each other deeply.  Click here and scroll down for the commercial.

What is racist?  We added a second confession to one we posted earlier.

Our post on anachronistic portrayals of American Indians was cross-posted at Racialicious.   One of the commenters pointed us to some additional material that we’ve used to update the post on anachronism and an older post on American Indian mascots.  Scroll down.

We found another vintage ad using the “savage” to sell.  Check it out here.

We added a vintage Union-Castle cruise ad to this post of a colonial-era travel poster for Hong Kong. The Castle ad portrays Africans and their houses as a tourist attraction for Whites to enjoy.

We added two Swiffer ads and a link to Swiffer’s “break-up channel” to this post about cleaning products being portrayed as women’s “special friends.”

You may remember a recent post about how the new Risk boardgame has been re-fashioned to be, well, blatantly for guys only. Well, Julie C. went to the website and played the online game which is not about world domination, but in fact about banging hot chicks and other ways to prove you’re a manly man. It’s pretty remarkable. Enjoy! (Scroll down past the original post.)

There was a time in American history when women agonized about being too skinny.  Check out the two ads for products that will help women put on weight that we added to two others in a previous post.

We came across another example of an ad, this one from 1934, urging women to start shaving their armpits.  We added it to another, along with our discussion of the marketing effort that made armpit shaving a norm for women and a money-making endeavor for some.  Relatedly, we added some more vintage ads for douche and feminine deodorant, sent in by Ben O., to this post about douche ads.

In a comments thread, Tim pointed us to another product shaped by a boob.  We added it to our extensive post on products shaped like boobs.