Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Wedding Shows

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What do women want? We want weddings! And We've got them. On We, the channel that puts the "we" in "wedding."

Sarah Haskins skewers We TV's Platinum Weddings, Bridezilla, Bulging Brides, and Rich Bride, Poor Bride.

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Target Women is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of Target Women, Sarah Haskins takes a look at the often-ridiculous way the media reaches out to women.

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58 comments // Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Wedding Shows // Video

  • Bang1989
  • Angel4truth
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      Angel4truth  

    • I love this! I want to get married one day.. but figured I would want to spend the bigger bucks on a honey moon.. that would last longer.... right?

      Besides these girls aren't having fun. There has to be somewhere in the middle that works.

    • 1 year ago
  • naty_forty
  • invdrzim
  • samanthadian
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      samanthadian  

    • Congratulations on this being the number one clip of 2008. This was hilarious!

      I was wondering why they took you off for some Asian kid to announce the last four of the countdown. You are awesome and I always enjoy your pods!

      I don't know about that chubster, but when something I try on is too small I get the next size bigger.

    • 1 year ago
  • ashcatash
  • lillyhilly
  • CH3R1
  • smurph25
  • mhelphing
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      mhelphing  

    • thanks Sara for helping me feel less paranoid about the terrible body image expectations the media places on us. you have a great body!! I found myself getting self-concious watching the bride shows and was sucked into the idiocracy and tantrums of these self-absorbed women, They're only acting like what they see on TV anyways.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ekopii2
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      Ekopii2  

    • I think what most people now-a-days are fixated with is the concept of money and how money buys happiness and that spending more money on your wedding will make it better. Granted, yes somethings are worth having at your wedding however the more expensive it is doesn't mean that it's going to be better. With the divorce rate up at 50% and possibly higher, why spend thousands of dollars on your wedding that possibly could end up just being a waste of money?

      I've seen a few of those wedding shows and personally they make me feel sick to my stomach for being a woman. I feel like the wedding shows (like bridezilla) are kind of similar to MTVs my super sweet sixteen where the bratty sixteen year olds complain about not having Nelly at their party.

      Society makes me sick.

    • 1 year ago
  • professionalfaker
  • s0und0FF
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      s0und0FF  

    • I just went to see my first wedding! They happy couple wore regular formalwear and drove around the marina until they found a nice, romantic spot on the pier to do the wedding thing at. Kids threw rose petals. Kissing happened. Good times. Good, inexpensive, times.

    • 1 year ago
  • sestinashell
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      sestinashell  

    • Target Women is the best stuff on the internet.

      I agree that the ads where the dad is an idiot and mom has to do everything need to be mocked- the whole "my husband is so incompetent, but fortunately I do all the dishes" thing is pretty annoying. But even worse is that if men do appear in commercials featuring cleaning products, they are generally not using them, but instructing a woman on how to use them! Some distressed housefrau can't get the grass stains out? Never fear! A man can show you how to be happy again!

    • 1 year ago
  • wakemenow
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      wakemenow  

    • haha My girlfriend was a bridezilla in her recent wedding. We've barely spoken since and I plan on letting her go since this is not the kind of crap I can muster patience for.

      Big fancy weddings have never interested me and prior to May I had never attended one. Now that I've seen it play out firsthand, I am 200% convinced that elopement really was the best option.

    • 1 year ago
  • thekmarie
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      thekmarie  

    • I personally think they need to calm down the wedding crap, statistically more people are cohabiting couples these days. I believe weddings would be the majority however, same-sexed couples are limited rights and entertain these stats. I personally have focused my educational goals on cultural influences on communication and institutions such as the "marriage" and all the stimulation increases the fantasy. More then 50% of all marriages end in divorce, so happily ever after is, really not the correct message. Education and age have everything to do with a successful marriage. People who are ages 18-24 when they storm the isle have the highest failures in recent stats.
      I feel that the fairy-tale is only real when it exists in our rational thoughts. Those shows blatantly reveal that most weddings fail to meet "rational" expectancy levels and intact have "coined" behavior. It may be my worldview that is jaded....I can take myself on. I am lucky to have a guy who relates to my choices and views..but we feel the pressure to tie the knot by our society but have focused on life, education and businesses. People value our accomplishments in reverse....well what are they waiting for?,,,,,creating our life first! Then creating the fairy-tale....nope really I already have it. Peace to all you eager beavers... and understanding to all the others....

      kmarie

    • 1 year ago
  • ElizabethMcQuern
  • sunbeam
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      sunbeam  

    • Sarah Haskins, I love you! As the other person said too, I made an account on this site just to make this comment! Can I be updated just when you do a new Target:Women?? That's what I wish for in life...

    • 1 year ago
  • Sarah_Haskins
  • robynella
  • nwan
  • Joydejavu17
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      Joydejavu17  

    • I told my best friend if some was to ask me to marry them, i wouldn't want a diamond engagement ring.

      to me it's over-rated.

      If you are on bridezilla, i feel sorry for your "future" spouse.

      i hate self absorbed idiots.

    • 1 year ago
  • photoboothpictures
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      photoboothpictures  

    • Thanks for showing how over the last 50 years people have distorted the idea of weddings into this expensive unrealistic fantasy. Companies make tons of money exploiting women's childhood fantasy of being Cinderella. Wikipedia says. "The diamond engagement ring did not become the standard it is considered today until after an extensive marketing campaign by De Beers in the middle of the 20th century, which came to include one of the most famous advertising slogans of the 20th century: 'A Diamond is Forever.'"

    • 1 year ago
  • Sarah_Haskins
  • alisa_rose
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      alisa_rose  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      oh wow, Sarah Haskins is on here leaving comments. I feel oddly starstruck. I actually have never owned a TV so I don't know much about what drives me crazy in advertisements. But I asked my friend sitting next to me and he said air fresheners and hair dye.

    • 1 year ago
  • netsurfer
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      netsurfer  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      Seriously! I think this applies: there's this one commercial where there's this happy mom serving her giggling children those microwavable dinner trays (you know, chicken strips, mashed potatoes, and a little brownie), and the voice over talks about how it's great to give your kids these real smiles thanks to these "real meals".

      it kinda sums up how people tend to not cook, but hey, that's ok! give your kid these "real meals" and you'll be an awesomely cool mom!

      it's... fairly sad.

      and these commercials always pop up between shows like "Project Runway", so I guess they figure moms watch it. so... in summary... those easy-to-make meals, for the mom on the go (cause men certainly don't cook in tv-marketing land)

    • 1 year ago
  • KarlitoMosquito
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      KarlitoMosquito  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      One thing that drives me craziest about commercials is not so much the women, or the products they supposedly can't live without. What make me the maddest is when I see these beautiful, gorgeous, supermodel looking 'soccer moms' who are married to the stupidest, men I've ever seen! Not to mention that the guys are usually fat, bald and quite frankly not that attractive. What does that say about us women that we only married fat, bald idiots? It's such a marketing double standard that the guy can look like a slob but the girl still has to look gorgeous. Do they really think people will tune out if a 'normal' looking woman is on screen?

      Not sure if you can use that in Target Women, but there you go...

    • 1 year ago
  • netsurfer
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      netsurfer  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      Ah yes, the typical "dumb dads" as seen in all those cleaning product ads. Like the one where the dad just watches the spilled root beer float, pondering how many paper towels will do the job. Responsible wife to the rescue!

    • 1 year ago
  • hermance
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      hermance  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      I too registered on this site just because of this video. I usually hate internet videos, and was really skeptical when I first saw this on feministing. But seriously this is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. Please make more, Sarah!!!!

      In terms of other stuff that is marketed to women, what about all of those "organizing"/"how to buy the right thing" magazines. You know, like Real Simple and Martha Stewart and Domino--where they are always telling you how to wrap the perfect package or turn a shoebox into a "cute" little organizer, etc., etc. It's not even that they are the "new" Ladies Home Journal so much. It's the way that organizing--and being organized in a "cute" way--is somehow what marks a woman. It's all to-do lists and check boxes.

      I don't know if you want to do food ads again, but those Campbell's ads that push soup as a diet are ridiculous. They make it sound so luxurious and filling to eat canned soup.

      And yeah, the diamond ads. You could just splice together a string of clips from Jared's and DeBeers ads and not even comment, they are so ludicrous.

    • 1 year ago
  • schoolmarm
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      schoolmarm  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      shoes. why the hell must every medium assume that all women squee and orgasm over footwear?

      diet ads, especially this recent crop of diet plans claiming they aren't diets. whether you attach numbers to things or not, every single one of them intentionally produces calorie restriction -- that's a weight-loss diet. apparently we women are supposed to be too stupid to notice.

      tampon ads have always been and will always be insane.

    • 1 year ago
  • KarlitoMosquito
  • grungetta
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      grungetta  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      KarlitoMosquito, fortunately I have devoted much time to considering the blue-stuff-on-maxi-pads question. My theory is this:

      1) Red stuff looks too much like the stuff that actually comes out of us. So can't use that, obviously...
      2) Yellow stuff looks like urine
      3) Orange stuff looks like orange juice
      4) Green stuff looks like...alien juice...

      ...So that just leaves us with purple or blue stuff. And frankly, at that point, who gives a crap?

    • 1 year ago
  • BrownBetty
  • semra105
  • liliya
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      liliya  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      I don't watch a lot of TV so I'm not sure if these are still current but those fucking Dr. Scholl's ~*~for her~*~ shoe insert ads were ludicrous. I'm one of those tragic shoe addicts you hear about so I have no beef with the actual item; I have a few and they're fine products (though of course they won't make a 4" heel feel or function like a sneaker), but if I recall correctly, there were some ads that featured women performing physically demanding tasks like mowing the goddamn lawn in bigass heels. Oh! FINALLY, a product that -empowers- women, by allowing them to submit to the everpresent gaze of physical assessment while trudging through menial labor in the privacy of their own backyards! Fuck FUNCTION, I want a product that lets me rock the stripper heels when tending to my garden.

      And nnnnow I get to feel completely ridiculous if I'm confusing the television ads for the print ads or something. Oh well. Onward!

    • 1 year ago
  • pdxlibrarian
  • Angel4truth
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      Angel4truth  
    • Sarah_Haskins:

      They should always use light purple liquid... not blue. It's happier!
      LMAO! I nearly die when that one commercial says "have a happy period"... once I threw something at the TV. Thankfully it was a stuffed animal.

    • 1 year ago
  • alisa_rose
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      alisa_rose  

    • This is literally the best thing I have ever seen, and I made an account on this website just so I could leave this comment. Sarah Haskins needs to make many, many more of these. I also like yogurt.

    • 1 year ago
  • netsurfer
  • Sarah_Haskins
  • netsurfer
  • schoolmarm
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      schoolmarm  
    • netsurfer:

      fen-phen is a diet drug combo (fenfluramine and phentermine) that was pulled from the market for causing fatal heart valve defects. between that and the puking, she is claiming to be willing to literally kill herself to fit into her dress.

    • 1 year ago
  • Larry_C
  • Larry_C
  • CateSevilla
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      CateSevilla  

    • This is brilliant.

      I can't believe the whole Bulging Brides show. The "THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE" bit is horrible.

      Shows like this make me proud of my little, tiny wedding ceremony. (And the fact that I didn't scream LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN at everyone...)

    • 1 year ago
  • alexward
  • schoolmarm
  • ShadesOfInsanity
  • Sylvie1986
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      Sylvie1986  

    • i love this segment! there has to be an episode about salads because that appears to be the official meal for us women (apart from yogurt of course). I was driving one day and actually saw a Jack in the box truck with a huge ad on the side saying: "Forget diamonds, salads are a girls best friend". comedy gold!

    • 1 year ago
  • ohh_Donna
  • April_5210
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      April_5210  

    • I have watched these shows and there seems to be a reoccuring theme of 'losing weight to fit in the wedding dress'. Here's a better idea: buy a dress that actually fits, not something 2 sizes smaller that you hope to fit into in 6 months.

    • 1 year ago
  • schoolmarm
    • 0
      schoolmarm  
    • April_5210:

      starving yourself to "earn" your wedding has become a cultural rite of passage. every single bridal website assumes you're going to try lose weight. it's sick. we need to go beyond persuading individual brides to be sensible and target the culture.

    • 1 year ago
  • JonnyXero
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      JonnyXero  

    • It seems you women lose touch with the real meanings of a wedding. It's more about sharing your love for that special someone on a special day with your closest friends and family. Not looking like a model or having the right decorations. I'd like to see a wedding planned by a husband for once just to see what happens.

    • 1 year ago
  • mchughtie
  • Marilin
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      Marilin  
    • JonnyXero:

      Are you kidding me? If I let my husband plan our wedding we wouldn't HAVE one. The only interest he has in the music and our invitations, both because we're doing them ourselves and he loves music and graphic design.

      So, my husband, planning our wedding=no wedding.

    • 1 year ago
  • KarlitoMosquito
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      KarlitoMosquito  

    • Sarah, you rock! And super Kudos to you for appearing in spandex and a sports bra! You looked great, and don't worry, our special days will come!

      :)

    • 1 year ago
  • 24French
    • 0
      24French  

    • Over-the-top wedding fantasies aren't the only game in town...I have a secret fantasy where WE marries the SciFi Channel, and they give birth to the movie "Bridezilla Meets Mothra," in which bad dialogue overdub rules and Rodan makes an appearance toward the end, But like so many fantasies, it just will never happen.

    • 1 year ago
  • realfran
    • 0
      realfran  

    • i'm single too, and is not big deal, IS NOT!!

      well, i like the occasional wedding tv show, but a whole tv network!!! is just too much

    • 1 year ago

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