#MeToo and beyond: inequality and injustice in marketing practice and academia

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Notes

1. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuBh-kzHDU&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert.

2. This was written prior to Donald Trump’s election defeat. However, the values and assumptions that Trump, Kushner and company trade upon are in wide circulation. So, in effect, their names are placeholders for views that we must always problematise or they will return with a vengeance. After all, it is disconcerting how – for instance, – white supremacist views and values skew the output of chatbots soon after their release; Tay, the Twitter bot distributed by Microsoft, being an exemplar (see Puntoni et al., 2020). The same can be said of the invocation of antifeminist hashtags ‘to demean’ specific groups (e.g., Barrios et al., 2020).