"As someone who used to work in French ad agencies, I’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meetings where this campaign was being developed. Did the copywriter(s) meet some resistance? Did the person with the most power find it funny and simply disregard the concern? Or was there no resistance whatsoever, and everybody signed off on this?"
Le sigh. Oh how I can relate (fortunately those days are long behind me).
You must have many stories to tell from your ad agency days. I'm glad you found your way through and out of that environment, which is certainly not for everyone, and hope you have settled into your happy professional place.
Thanks for this Lou <3 You made me want to run to the closest book shop to get La deuxième femme, I’m a big fan of crime novels! (That’s how I started reading when I was a kid, with Mary Higgins Clark haha).
I’m very curious about female rage as well, as we don’t get to read about that a lot. I have Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King on my list because I think it tackles a similar subject, and I read a great paper on this subject that explores domestic violence and conflict through gender symmetry/asymmetry and control practices. Super interesting to understand female violence.
Hello! I feel like we need more feminist crime novels. Let me know what you think of LDF if you manage to get your hands on it (it's also in Paris libraries.) I have noted that paper, thanks for sharing this resource.
"As someone who used to work in French ad agencies, I’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meetings where this campaign was being developed. Did the copywriter(s) meet some resistance? Did the person with the most power find it funny and simply disregard the concern? Or was there no resistance whatsoever, and everybody signed off on this?"
Le sigh. Oh how I can relate (fortunately those days are long behind me).
You must have many stories to tell from your ad agency days. I'm glad you found your way through and out of that environment, which is certainly not for everyone, and hope you have settled into your happy professional place.
Thanks for this Lou <3 You made me want to run to the closest book shop to get La deuxième femme, I’m a big fan of crime novels! (That’s how I started reading when I was a kid, with Mary Higgins Clark haha).
I’m very curious about female rage as well, as we don’t get to read about that a lot. I have Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King on my list because I think it tackles a similar subject, and I read a great paper on this subject that explores domestic violence and conflict through gender symmetry/asymmetry and control practices. Super interesting to understand female violence.
Hello! I feel like we need more feminist crime novels. Let me know what you think of LDF if you manage to get your hands on it (it's also in Paris libraries.) I have noted that paper, thanks for sharing this resource.
It’s ‘Conflict and Control: Gender Symmetry and Assymetry in Domestic Violence’ by Michael P. Johnson.
loved it, thanks Lou
Thanks for reading, m'dear <3
Such a rich and interesting read, thank you Lou! I now have squillions of tabs open with all your fab reccos. Merci encore xx