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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIs Dr. Pepper still trying that "For Men Only" thing?
That was probably one of the dumbest set of commercials I've ever seen. A total failure. Even worse than Geico and the screaming pig.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Seriously sexist.
I mean, WTF?
chrisa
(4,524 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 29, 2012, 09:49 PM - Edit history (1)
lol How is this sexist? I was just asking because I hate those commercials. They're so cheesy.
Scratching my head on this one.
Edited hours after: My initial impression was that this poster was calling my post sexist. Is she or he actually calling the commercial itself sexist? I disagree with both opinions, though.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)That's how much I hate the pig commercials. I don't have any use for Geico anyway.
Spock_is_Skeptical
(1,491 posts)and I am a vegetarian, tree-hugging PETA supporter.
I hate that stupid commercial!
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Beyond that, the commercials are dumb and sexist, full of crap like inferring that women can't understand action movies.
They were (are?) more dumb than anything, though. I hate them because they're so out of place - Dr. Pepper isn't even a "men's" drink, which is why it was pretty stupid. I like to laugh at stupid, failed advertisements that try to appeal to a market but fail badly at it.
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)What made that commercial sexist?
Rambis
(7,774 posts)nothing like halving your audience in a most insulting way. Another one that i noticed in a car commercial was something like "small women like to have powerful cars"
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)cause men wont drink diet (so the co says, though men i know drink diet). no he says, selling to women. we went back and forth until he saw the commercial again and saw at the end saying for men only....
he says.... BUT, the only people i see drinking the drp 10 are women.
he fixes computers and he says he sees it on womens desk all the time.
moral of story
put out a manly man and the women will buy and the men will run away.
or not
i am playing.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)Pretty lame
Secret deodorant did the same thing but it was 30 years ago.
chrisa
(4,524 posts)Neoma
(10,039 posts)Tea and water for me!
siligut
(12,272 posts)Do they think we are that gullible? I could only believe the ad-men wanted to make it seem like forbidden fruit.
For a while, there was an ad for buying home foreclosures and you could only call that day if your name started with an A-L, geesh, but even worse, they would play the same ad the next day.
KG
(28,752 posts)did everybody miss that? really?
nickinSTL
(4,833 posts)Didn't Pepsi try a similar tactic with Pepsi Max?
I don't remember the commercials, so I don't know if they were less annoying, but I seem to recall they were trying to market that to men as well.
mikeSchmuckabee
(349 posts)and there was an ad in England for something that was "not for girls" and an ad in Germany for a Nestle's chocolate bar that was "nicht fur frauen". I thought it so odd, I had to keep the wrapper as a souvenir. The was TEN YEARS AGO! Has it run it's course there and now is invading the land of the crass and home of the depraved?
fishwax
(29,149 posts)fairly recently, so I guess it's still their slogan: