Comments on: The War on Terr’r Part 5: Buy Our Shit, Bitch!

By: Immir

Immir — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:41:25 +0000

I makes sense why advertisers have to use insanely thin, ‘beautiful’ women to show their products.

Think about it this way: A woman displaying a handbag in an ad is middle age, a few wrinkles and by her waist has clearly had children- all of a sudden you realize.. ‘It’s just a bag’.

By coupling the product with an image of impossible beauty, something that we have been sold since birth, it suddenly is connected in our minds. It suddenly has power.

By: Anyway

Anyway — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:45:48 +0000

I doubt there are many Andy Rooney fans around here, but this is worth seeing.

Accidental brilliance:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/andy-tries-decipher-ads/9742-1_53-50076629.html

Btw, I love your blog! I’ve been reading it for a while but never got around to commenting.

By: Immir

Immir — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:08:41 +0000

Awesome post.

By: Andrearose

Andrearose — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:43:07 +0000

You. Are. My. Hero.

By: mcol

mcol — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:00:25 +0000

I’m always late to the party, but I figured it would never be too late for you to hear this: I am at least one person who doesn’t think that you are being “irrationally angry” or “making a big deal out of things” at all. I think you speak perfect sense and this blog is awesome.

By: Katia

Katia — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:53:46 +0000

*Throughout the ad we were shown girls doing physical activities. In none of the ads have I seen girls watching movies on the sofa and laughing, or walking through the mall with shopping bags in their hands…..to my mom, it seemed as if the implication were that more physically active girls were promiscuous, while my viewpoint was that the lack of girls doing non-physical activities meant that the advertisers were not ready to accept young women having sex, or at least any woman having sexual feelings as she does something that isn’t in the realm of sports.*

Hrm. I guess I would’ve seen it as suggesting that only athletic girls care about their health, or that the only acceptable activities for girls are sports, or something (and as a music/English geek who sucks at any physical activity she takes up, I take exception to that)

By: Pixie

Pixie — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:21:58 +0000

Do you know what makes me really angry? Ads for hair removal products. I’m sick of this “use Gilette for a smoother MORE FEMININE you”, bullshit. What makes me even angrier is society’s repulsion for female body and facial hair.

By: Alina

Alina — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:55:55 +0000

XD Men’s obsessions with other guys’ penises never fail to amaze me. And that Durex ad is seriously appalling. Something about the idea of a “large” object being stuck in a place where it doesn’t fit (thereby causing physical harm as the ad suggests) screams rape. But that’s just me.

By: Taybeh Chaser

Taybeh Chaser — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:33:57 +0000

Isme–I know. When I hear/read descriptions along the lines of “hung like a [insert animal much larger than us people here]“, I always wonder who could possibly find that appealing. Am I supposed to?

By: isme

isme — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:14:26 +0000

“No man has a cock that big, and if he did, then he should lift weights with it for our entertainment, because he can’t fuck anything but a blow up pool.”

On a similar note, I don’t see why being “hung like a horse” is considered a good thing for a male other than a horse to be.