Mademoiselle Satine

An ad campaign tells us how different you can be when you wear glasses. I really love the idea of the ad (been wearing glasses for over a decade now) and think the little illustrations are cute. What I find really disheartening was the picture of the woman. Glasses can make a man successful in his 'profession', a woman may only alter her sexual availability. We have guys who go from being "butchers" and "hell's angels" to "artists" and "fashion designers". A woman with glasses can go from "easy" catch to "hard" catch.
(I send in this ad to the sociological images blog yesterday.)

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I sent in my first support request on the 24th of May and asked if DW can make changes in their HTML FAQ. It's already very extensive but I found out the other day that you can make your journal a lot more accessibility friendly if you use certain tags. Screenreades can for instance pick up the meaning of < em > and < strong >.

hope did the HTML entry on accessibility.

DW said they will pass the suggestion along.

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Have you head of it? "Entropa" was an art piece commissioned by the Czech Government to mark the occasion of its presidency of the Council of the European Union. Titled "Stereotypes are barriers to be demolished" it shows (rather hilariously) the stereotype which are commonly attributed to European countries. It caused quite a scandal.

I don't want to say too much and will post only two pictures of the installation. Sorry, I couldn't find a higher resolution. You can of course read all about it on Wikipedia but I think it's more fun if everyone has a chance to form an opinion.

So, can you guess the countries? What is pictured? And - most important question - do you think it's funny or disrespectful?