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- From: feathers@serss0 (Michael Feathers)
- Subject: Re: Sick and tired of cries of sexism (was Re: 9 1/2 Weeks)
- Organization: Florida International University, Miami
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:55:32 GMT
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- In article <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
- >bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:
- >
- >> No offense to gilbert, or even to tara lou, but I'm real tired
- >> of hearing this crap about sexist ads when in fact the
- >> objectification of men is just as prevalent as the objectification
- >> of women.
- >
- >That isn't the point, not that it isn't a good point to make.
- >
- >The point being made is that the advertisers expect their viewers to be
- >men, and they speak to men as consumers, and ignore women as audience.
- >
- >Namaste,
- >Elizabeth
- >
- >
-
- Right. I'm on vacation right now and I've seen more advertising targeted
- at women during the day today then I've ever seen in my life.
-
- Perhaps for beer ads, men are targeted more but I think that advertisers are
- too greedy to exclude an audience simply to be sexist. They do quite a bit
- of research to find a well-defined consumer group and then they target them.
- Funny enough, I think I remember hearing about a beer that was test marketed
- at women, but some people were outraged and the project fell flat.
- (no pun intended).
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