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- From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Sick and tired of cries of sexism (was Re: 9 1/2 Weeks)
- Message-ID: <1552@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:21:59 GMT
- References: <BD.92Dec27093825@fluent.UUCP> <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca>
- Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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- In article <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
- /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.
-
- Advertising's purpose is to sell product. They target their ads to whoever
- their market research shows is the most likely buyer. There are ads
- targeted specifically to men, women, old, young, retired veterans, in fact
- just about any identifiable group.
-
- You don't see beer ads in PC Magazine just like you don't see compilers
- advertised on TV, *wrong audience*.
-
- If beer ads don't target women, I expect the reason is that their market
- research shows that men are the big beer market. Ads are horrendously
- expensive to run on TV, and the ad just ain't going to be targeted at
- people less interested in buying.
-
- There is a lot of ads targeted directly at women, for instance, lingerie
- and cosmetics. And don't forget the ones targeted at the busy executive
- woman.
-
- Actually, who cares anyway :-) Buy beer if you want it :-)
-