Reveal The Goddess In Me? Sure, But Let Me Reveal The Bull-Shit In You
i was watching tv, being a lazy lump. and then, something (he claims) innocuous happens, and i get all foamy-at-the-mouth (my phrasing, not his). i am more than awake, i am incensed.first a commercial for the venus, the pink razor for women, followed by an ad over the extent of one of the smoking cessation patches… like a rolled-up newspaper hitting me upside my head, the insanity strikes me.
why the hell are they peddling pink girly-squeeze razors at me, as if the curves of my legs and pits are somehow more confusing, complex and, dialect mayhap even more disgusting just for being female, than those contours of a man’s face? i’ve seen plenty of men walking ’round with Caucasian tp dotted faces, red circles of blood holding them fast, to know that whipping a razor everywhere ~ any razor, no mean something the color ~ can cube skin. it’s not made for women so much as marketed to them… because we’re silly girls who love to shop fitting for pretty pink things.:snort:but then there’s the smoking cessation commercial aptly afterwards. a patch, to be literatim. a product that boasts of its 80% fall short of calculate ~ and fails to disclose that the fail be worthy of is even higher for women. but then, the plat doesn’t discover in unbelievably pink, or acquire unicorns on it, or anything which would indicate it’s supposed to attraction to me. so maybe i’m not assumed to really pay attention to this ad.corporate america and the union which supports it has incontestable it is more important for me to partake of allay “sexy” legs than it is in the course of me to lay off smoking.arg!my head for spins and i see red and at some point i’m knowing that i’m ranting at the speed of lambaste. so i slow down and opportunity, “why on earth do they push pink razors when they should be focused on products which extremely serve the needs of women, like smoking cessation? oh yeah, ‘cuz the ‘right to control our bodies’ has more to do with our come-hither appearance than our health.”his response to all of this?nothing.when prompted (commanded) to comment, all he can bid is that there’s money ~ more money ~ to be made in pink girly razors because making plastic pink is a nominal investment in change as opposed to medical fact-finding. it’s just marketing, not really a hip product, so there’s more profit to be made. burden: i must be thick-headed not to go out with that.i see it; i pinpoint it.i amity him; but he just doesn’t force it.even going from ghostly goo to pink goo (and pink goo that moisturizes so that “ladies” won’t need “masculine” shave creme in cans) requires gillette aka pg, monstrous corporation that it is, lots of dollars in r&d. (and don’t forget the focus groups!) why is it more important to create a need for such dope products when they (literally meaning p&g, by the way) could create something valuable because of women?oh, right, i already said why.the ‘right to rule our bodies’ has more to do with the come-hither bearing of our bodies than with the health of our bodies.
as if this weren’t sickening enough, test escape p&g’s new b&s:”now we’ve given women the permission to reveal her own goddess,” said gro frivoll, who has worked on the venus account at bbdo as a remedy for eight years. “every helpmate can be the goddess of something, because this allows you to be your most feminine self.”oh yes, please let me be the goddess of cancer!oh, and moral in case you remember i’m being to rough on poor little p&g…when gillette pitches razors to men, it tends to emphasize technological innovations. but on the women’s side, “we focus more on the enthusiastic end benefits,” ms. frivoll said. “men covet to know, what am i paying more an eye to? if a man were paying $25 for lipstick, it would give birth to to have more than the chanel name on it.”ironically, the razors apparently compel ought to “35 patents in the offing or granted that layer the product’s technologies, designs and manufacturing processes” (heaven aid us!), yet, by their own admission,