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- From: dwelch@mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch)
- Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 18:34:30 GMT
- References: <fblT033pb9zK00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Nov12.141149.8620@news.nd.edu> <robert.722215826@labyrinth>
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- In article <robert.722215826@labyrinth> robert@informix.com (Robert Coleman) writes:
- >slarsen@berlin.helios.nd.edu (susan larsen) writes:
- >
- >>Part of the function of advertising is to create a desire on the part
- >>of the buying public for a particular product.
- > The commercial can't make me desire the product. All it can do is let
- >me know that the product exists, so that I can try it, and evaluate it for
- >the things that really matter.
-
- If you really believe this, and if it's really true, you're a pretty amazing
- person. Or else, completely and utterly dispassionate.
-
- You've never seen a car commercial and gone, "Wow, what a great car, I wish
- I could afford one"? I'm not saying that the commercial made you go out and
- put yourself in debt, but can you really say that it didn't create a desire
- in you?
-
- I think that commercials are creating desires in you each and every day. I
- also think you're confusing your ability to resist these desires with a
- complete absence of them. They are there; you are just able to overcome
- them, better than most perhaps.
-
- Daniel Welch
-