More ads portraying men as stupid and trivial. Click here for more.
Miguel E. found all of these here!
NEW: In our comments, Pharmacopaeia pointed us to this commerical from New Zealand:
See also bros before hos.
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
Bob K. sent in this image of Liquid Virgin Tightening Lubricant (found here):
According to the website,
This product is called a Vaginal Contracting Lubricant. It is Similar to the age-old China Shrink cream. These drops work to temporarily tighten the walls of the vagina. I have never tried it but our sales representative says they work. I didn’t ask how she knew.
This could be used in a discussion of how women’s bodies are perceived, and particularly stereotypes of sexually active women’s bodies. After all, the word “loose” implies that a woman is slutty and therefore her vagina is all, you know, stretched out and stuff. Because that’s totally how that works.
The implication is that sex with such women will be less pleasurable for men than sex with women who have had less sex…such as virgins. You might also want to talk about vaginal rejuvenation surgery as part of this topic.
Since we’re on the topic of images of sexually experienced women, Jenelle and Marcello both sent in this ad for BMW used cars (found here):
“You know you’re not the first.”
Here’s an example of another ad (found here) from the Polish used BMW campaign that doesn’t use a woman to sell cars. So apparently it can be done.
Thanks, Bob, Marcello, and Jenelle!
This is a print ad for Bongo clothing:
The thing that caught my attention (other than the absurd, gratuitous sexual imagery) is that, as far as I can tell, Bongo only sells women’s clothing. This means that the ad isn’t supposed to have some sort of Axe Body Spray-esque appeal to men (i.e., “Wear Our Jeans And An Ambidextrous Woman Will Give You And Another Guy A Handjob!”). Thus, the point of the ad appears to be that women should want to purchase and wear a denim vest/corduroy miniskirt combo, so that they may earn the right to sexually service men in a way that reinforces the invisibility of female sexuality (except as a mechanism by which men can be satisfied).
And that’s just not a good enough reason to wear corduroy.
Click here to watch a 1 1/2 minute segment about Dr. Matlock and vaginoplasty. It’s TOTALLY SURREAL. (And not safe for work.)
Also, and this drives me crazy, the proper term is “vulva,” not “vagina.” To call the whole thing a vagina reduces women’s genitals to where the penis goes in/baby comes out. There is a lot more going on down there!
I blame you, Vagina Monologues.
Joyous A. sent us a link to these Cosmo beauty tips, illustrated by this picture:
Jeff G. let us know about one of Troyt Coburn’s ads for Lee:
Glenn R. sent us a link to this Caramba Tequila ad (via):
And Jay L. pointed out this Swiss commercial for Creme d’Or ice cream, in which a woman appears to give a statue oral sex:
The commercial was entered in the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.
This ad 1976 ad for Perrier may seem boring for the first 15 seconds or so, but it’s worth the wait:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRIRACUmTPE[/youtube]
This is an ad for a water gun called The Oozinator:
The images below are on The Ice Creamists website:
NEW (Jan ’10)! Helene V. sent in these two Danish ads for Cult. In addition to potentially encouraging you to use alcohol to get sex, do you see the splooge halo around the bottles?
NEW (Mar. ’10)! Dmitriy T.M. sent in this flyer advertising a techno party:
ALSO NEW! (Mar. ’10): Kristyn G. sent us this commercial for an Australian internet company, which was pulled from the air after compaints (found at the Daily Telegraph):
See also Gwen Stefani, this Tudors ad, this creamer ad, and the Slates, Caesar’s Palace, and Campari ads from this post.
Images from Jezebel, Copyranter (here and here), Adfreak, and The F Word.
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
We’ve been so busy with PETA, we’ve forgotten about American Apparel. What does one have to do with the other? They both sacrifice one social justice issue in pursuit of another. I find this leftist balkanization–where lefty groups choose one and only one social justice issue and ignore the rest, or even exacerbate them–fascinating. It leads to, if you will allow me to mix metaphors, a leftist cannibalization. We are eating ourselves.
So anyway, American Apparel is American Apparel because they are supposed to care about fair wages. You know, made in America according to fair labor laws. Anti-sweatship and all that good stuff. What a lovely thing. Except… their ads (stolen from Copyranter). They make me want to wash my eyes out with soap.
Um… not safe for work.
I don’t know how “real” any of this is, but this what I’ve been able to collect on this matter…
If you are connected to the internets, you have probably heard these messages left on some unsuspecting woman’s answering machine.
The messages have been attributed to Dmitri the Lover, a professional seducer of women and teacher of seducers of women. Here is a screen shot of his wholly misogynistic website:
Here, too, is a news article detailing how he lost his medical license due to inappropriate sexual advances and has been accused of rape many times ‘n other great stuff.
Thanks to Jason S., Brett W., and CoRri V. for the links and info!
NEW! Still at it, a reader alerted us to Dmitri’s “meeting” this January:
THERE IS ONLY ONE OPPORTUNITY EACH YEAR FOR HORNY MEN TO SEDUCE WOMEN THIS INSECURE, GROSSLY UNDERFUCKED, AND HIGHLY IMPRESSIONABLE.
More (his emphasis):
As a MEDICAL DOCTOR, Dimitri The Lover is extremely cognizant of the fact that studies have show over 60% of women worldwide suffer from a psychological disorder at some time during their lives. In Canada’s northern climate, January is the worst month of the year for psychological symptoms, primarily because a decrease in the level of sunlight and shortened hours of daylight cause “Seasonal Affective Disorder”. Exacerbated by both the post-holiday psychological letdown from unrealistically high pre-holiday expectations, and the effects of alcohol withdrawal on the neural pathways, this condition causes many women to fall into a MILD REACTIVE DEPRESSION. Therefore, these once proud sluts become insecure and begin to doubt the value of their existing relationships, which even in the best of times are just barely adequate to meet their psychosexual needs.
