In her research, Great Salt Lake scientist and advocate Jaimi Butler found it interesting that brine shrimp — or 'sea monkeys' — were sexualized in marketing cartoons in the 1970s.
Jaimi Butler standing in front of crowd at Cache Bar showing an old advertisement for " sea monkeys ."Jaimi Butler started her career as the only woman on a brine shrimp harvesting rig on Great Salt Lake . Butler has since made a name for herself as a Great Salt Lake scientist, an advocate, writer, and recently comedian.
After researching brine shrimp history, Butler found it interesting that brine shrimp or ‘sea monkeys,’ as they are more commonly known, were sexualized in marketing cartoons in the 1970s.“I started looking around and I found all of these interesting things where we were objectifying and sexualizing brine shrimp and their legs and brine shrimp don’t have legs,” Butler said. “And never once did I see anything about male brine shrimp having two penises.
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