Paco Dennis
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Torches of freedom: The birth of corporate feminism | Edward Bernays, propaganda, social engineering
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I really wish you would make some type of informative introduction that could make me interested in watching. Why is that so hard to write a few words? I won't spend my time watching random videos. Tell me why you liked it, why you were impressed by it. Stir up my curiosity, DO Something!!!!!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Paco Dennis
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If you took the time to watch the video I am sure that it would "stir up your curiosity". I couldn't possibly cover this subject in a post, and for me it is extremely important to know the history behind our current problems.
Bellbird
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There is a name for everything these days, I've never heard of corporate feminism, feminism is feminism I would have thought.
Paco Dennis
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Ok..I see your point. At least I could have posted the youtube description...I will try to be more comprehensive in the future.
In this short documentary, we go back to the Easter Day Parade of 1929 when a handful of selected women marched down 5th avenue New York City smoking cigarettes in front of staged news media to kick off the corporate sponsored feminist campaign branding cigarettes as “Torches of Freedom.” This action was orchestrated by none other than Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and America’s father of propaganda. As the second video in my short series on American propaganda and feminism, this mini documentary will dive into an early and explicit corporate manipulation of feminist sentiments. Bernays and his ties beyond the tobacco industry reveal their broader plot, to steer women’s desire for liberation towards the objectified service of corporate and government interests, fear-riddled support of government power, and turning generations of women into a “gold mine” for the corporations.