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Obeylix 05/22/2011

Pseudo-poetry bullshit does not make something more poignant.
Exhibit A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XXPPMhpLsk
Pretending to be hip does not endear me to your bank.
Exhibit B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIMMmqwe6Q
Race for life. Ladies will be racing, men will be paying. Can I run too?
Exhibit C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCU_plpNfUY
Kids would still be excited about Disneyland if you told them they were never to leave and were expected to work there for the next shipment of kiddies.
Exhibit D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrkMLC_n3o
You make me hungry but your food is crap and over-priced
Exhibit E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjNkZa-bP5k

Okay, I'm done for now, feel free to add your own.

Obeylix 05/22/2011

Okay, here's another.
There will be ugly angels too, because God doesn't discriminate, or so Ive been told. I've not actually met the man
Exhibit F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfeVEAZkJqM

typically 05/22/2011

Race for life comment a bit harsh!!
I pretty much agree on the rest...
There are others I find much worse, but not posting them as it will mean seeing them again!! lol

Obeylix 05/22/2011

Only because i would like to take part in the race for life. If it were the other way round, there would be hell in the press.
Prostate cancer is a huge killer, why not include all in this charitable event? The blatant sexism at play is why I hate the adverts.

deleted_user 05/22/2011

Hmm, guess I'm not as concerned about the apparently reversed sexism present in breast cancer ads as I am about the blatant and damaging sexism in, say, alcohol--a vast majority of, actually--advertisements.

Otherwise, sure, commercials are obnoxious. The idea in itself is obnoxious, but they have been taken to a ridiculously shameful level over the last 50 years.

deleted_user 05/23/2011

urgh!! that Madness ad is awful.
Halifax is an odd one, it`s like half of the ad knows it`s ridiculous and has tongue in cheek, the other half means it.
hmm, the race for life is just an unfortunately ambiguous name for the event whose focus started as female specific i believe (breast cancer)
Prostate cancer already has Movember sir, and growing a `tache excludes women... well, MOST of them ;)

adverts have taught me the following things:
if a couple save some money, the man is not allowed to have any plans for it.
men are baffled by air freshener
girls have a "sex in the city" style lunch to discuss absolutely everything... even how to poop easily.
only cockneys drive vans
if anything has happened to me at any point in my life ever, there`s probably some compensation available.
*product X* will turn any family into a picture of simpering twee-ness.

Obeylix 05/23/2011

RibbonElle: I am fully in agreement. WKD, John Smiths, Stella Artois etc are sickening but that is balanced out by Jacobs Creek, Echa Falls et all. All alcohol ads play on poor stereotypes but as I dont drink, I dont pay them any mind.
The thing with the race for life ads, is it is not just women that are affected. Families include men, maybe a man lost his wife and would like to run in her honour? Oh no, wait, we have to compartmentalise everything. Fund raising should NEVER be sex specific.

deleted_user 05/23/2011

i think it`s really just a solidarity and support thing - girls run together to fight breast cancer as they`re the ones primarily affected by it, and men grow a moustache for "their" cause.

personally i`d find it patronising if i was running for testicular cancer and a girl pulled the "it doesn`t ONLY affect you" line. of COURSE the emotional effect of someone getting cancer or similar is going to reach beyond that one person, but not at the primary physical level.
No-one is saying you can`t support the cause, go and cheer them on or donate, but events like the race for life create a "togetherness" that elevates its success which would be compromised if it was "opened up".

i guess i see it in the same way as any other charity event like this - i`m happy to support the cause and hope society reaps the benefits in the future.... but i`m not dressing up as an alarm clock and running backwards for 20 miles - however if someone else wants to, more power to them ;)

Obeylix 05/23/2011

Ok but men do get breast cancer. The togetherness would still be there, just not one group over another, as people together. After all, that is what we are supposed to be aiming for.
The follow up ad is asking for more women because they dont have enough to raise funds, if they opened it up to men as well, then they wouldn't have needed to spend money on another advert, the deficit they are pre-empting wouldn't necessarily happen.

I stand by my right to be annoyed by this, totally and utterly.

deleted_user 05/23/2011

in my ignorance i`d never even pondered breast cancer for men (good luck selling THAT as a strapline ;) ) and hadn`t seen the follow-up advert - which from the sounds of it only adds weight to your argument.

so continue your annoyance good sir!

i`ll continue with my parallel contempt for those pay-day loan places, especially given how quickly they`re sprining up and taking advantage of people left stuck with the economic collapse.

Obeylix 05/23/2011

Now that I can get on board with. i think Mills came up with a use for them but that might mean that the ads have worked on him.

Quick Quid, for the company only :D

deleted_user 05/23/2011

TV advertising - sexist?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fFOelpE_8

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