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- From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
- Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
- Summary: "almost never"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.171956.12547@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:19:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.133356.7945@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <BzMH1r.2rp@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1hcf4pINNdph@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1hcf4pINNdph@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin) writes:
- >
- > In a previous article, colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) says:
- > > 5c. In the ENTIRE history of US TV commericals, you have
- > > never seen a woman buying a gift for a man.
- >
- > Ahem... I fear you have been isolated from civilization (i.e., TV :-) for the
- > past couple months... I point you to the Sports Illustrated commercials,
- > which are totally devoted to pushing women to buy Sports Illustrated
- > subscriptions (& videos) for men, since "they never tell you what they
- > want"... (Yuck! :-)
- >
- > In these the woman is shown as having bought the subscription for the
- > guy, and giving him the video on Christmas. This ignores the fact that
- > it takes them many weeks to get the first issue and any premiums, like videos,
- > to the customer. So in real life, on Christmas you can only give a
- > card saying you got this for them...
- >
- > [I think this leadtime is why these commercials seem to have mercifully
- > disappeared a few weeks ago...]
- >
- > (Or are you eliminating this category because it doesn't actually show the
- > woman *shopping* in a store for a man's gift?)
-
- I did go back and forth between "almost never" and "never" and
- opted to be positive. Yes, I know women occasionally shop for
- men, but lets see home many other examples we can think of.
-
- I have seen the Sports Illustrated ones, by the way, for the last
- couple of years.
-
- marc colten
-