STYLE BUZZ: Being shown only in France, the print ads and TV commercials for the denim company’s campaign, “We Are Animals,” are being called misogynistic and obnoxious. Hey, you know what they say: nothing sells a pair of jeans like implied rape.

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1. “Rape is Hilarious, Disembodied Girly Bits Are Cute, Murder is Sexy.”
2. All The Print Ads Here
3. “There Are Good WTF Fashion Ads and There Are Idiotic WTF Fashion Ads. “
4. Wrangler Commercial: “Humans”
5. What Does Wrangler Represent? “Cowboy Hats and Barbeque Stains, Cornbread and Chicken, Septic Tanks and Incest?”
6. Do We Really Have to “Pretend That This is Sexy?”

CULTURE BUZZ: “There are 8,000 nerve endings in the clitoris and this son of a bitch couldn’t find one of them.” Did your ears perk up? The publicists behind J.J. Salem’s Tan Lines sure hope so. They even put together a video of a bunch of randoms reading the line out loud, because nothing is funnier than realizing that most people are barely literate.

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1. Sexy Summer Beach Reads
2. Books: All Book Has Going For It Is “Clitoris”
3. There Are 8,000 Nerve Endings in the Clitoris
4. Buy Tan Lines by J.J. Salem
5. Tan Lines by J.J. Salem

CULTURE BUZZ: A guerrilla artist in London has been removing the heads from ads and replacing them with bloody stumps. This act of ‘subvertising’ is putting a gruesome spin on ads for Sex and the City and Uniqlo, among others. Nothing says subversive like splattered blood.

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1. Ad Decapitator Stalks London
2. the Decapitator’s Photostream
3. Mysterious Headless Corpses Found All Over London
4. The Decapitator, Beheading Advertising in London
5. Culture-Jamming Decapitator Hacks London Ads

STYLE BUZZ: Eva Mendes will be the spokesperson for the new Calvin Klein underwear line. A departure from ’90s Calvin Klein aesthetic represented by waifs like Kate Moss, the “Seductive Comfort” line caters to buxom voluptuous women. Read: Bras for women with actual boobs.

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1. Eva Mendes Is Going To Be The New Face, Large Ass Of Calvin Klein Underwear Line
2. Eva Mendes Nude In PETA Ad Make Underwear Modeling Seem Tame
3. Underwear Queen
4. Eva Mendes to be the front of Calvin Klein Lingerie
5. Eva Mendes, new face of Calvin Klein Underwear
6. Eva Mendes for CK
7. CK Gets Curvy
8. Eva Mendes for Calvin Klein Underwear
9. Eva Mendes Calvin Klein Underwear Spokesmodel

TV BUZZ: Once again, violent antics and broad stereotypes win the day. Despite some assertions that this year’s crop of ads would be kinder and gentler, the majority of Super Bowl spots couldn’t help basing their jokes on brutal pratfalls and thinly veiled racist jokes. Here’s a roundup of what you missed while replenishing your snacks.

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2. Ad Age Rates the Ads: Overall, a Failing Score
3. Why the Panda Psychic Didn’t Have an Accent in That Racist Salesgenie.com Ad
4. FThe Ten Most TiVo-ed Super Bowl Ads
5. Super Bowl XLII Commercial Awards
6. AMP Energy Jumpstart - Nipples, Meet Starter Cables
7. Audi R8 - Nod to “The Godfather,” With Lots of Screaming
8. Bud Light Proves That Will Ferrell is No Longer Funny
9. Pepsi - Justin Timberlake Gets a Mailbox to the Crotch, Repeatedly
10. Planters Peanuts - Their Scent Inspires Pratfalls, Broken Bones
11. The All-New Corolla - Man Killed By Badgers
12. Cars.com - A Deathmatch With Glondoor
13. Doritos - A Man in a Mouse Suit Delivers a Brutal Beating
14. Bridgestone - Screaming Forest Creatures
15. Ice Breakers - Man Tackled By Carmen Electra’s Handlers
16. Bridgestone - Threatening to Run Down Richard Simmons is Still Funny
17. Bud Light - Breathe Fire, But no one is Hurt
18. Bud Light - Man Flies Into a Jet Engine, Har
19. CareerBuilder.com - Watching a Live Heart Leap Around Made us Feel Sick
20. SalesGenie - Nice Racist Accents, Guys!
21. SalesGenie - Nice Racial Stereotypes, Guys!
22. The Super Bowl Commercials Live-blog
23. The Best Super Bowl Ads Were…
24. Superbowl XLII Recap
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