{"id":9143,"date":"2009-05-13T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2009-11-26T04:39:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T09:39:06","slug":"pepsi-for-men-wolverines-pepper-spray-vikings-and-venom-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/13\/pepsi-for-men-wolverines-pepper-spray-vikings-and-venom-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi For Men: Wolverines, Pepper Spray, Vikings, And Venom (Of Course)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Aani B. and Sarah F. sent in a link to a commercial for the new diet Pepsi (Pepsi Max, of course) being aimed at men.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Also don’t miss this commercial<\/a> (embedding disabled) in which they describe the ingredients of Pepsi Max as the crushed bones of a Viking, the spit of a rapid Wolverine, pepper spray, and scorpion venom.\u00a0 The can? Made from the hull of a nuclear submarine.\u00a0 The crushing of cans on heads ensues.<\/p>\n

Over at I Blame the Patriarchy<\/a>, a reader named Kate sent in a snapshot of some advertising for the product at the intersection of 6th and Anza in San Francisco:<\/p>\n

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Slogans:<\/p>\n

“The first diet cola for men.”<\/p>\n

“Save the calories for bacon.”<\/p>\n

“0 calories. Great taste. Welded together.”<\/p>\n

“No gut. All glory.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is, of course, all in jest. Yet is still re-affirms the idea that being this way is the epitome of manhood, if taken to a ridiculous extreme.\u00a0 Eh, I’ll just let Twisty<\/a> say it. As usual, she says it better than I:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the big whoop? Well, you can\u2019t have a \u201csoda for men\u201d unless \u201cmen\u201d are considered a class unto themselves, defined in terms of the bacon-eating, welding, glorious nukular submarine-squashing aspirations that separate them from dainty vulnerable \u201cwomen.\u201d These ads are jokey, depicting average-looking dudes, but they tacitly allude to the noxious he-man\/fragile damsel dichotomy that\u2019s been chapping actual women\u2019s hides lo these many millennia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It also, of course, points to the fact that dieting really<\/em> has been for women all along (see posts here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a> for examples). In fact, it denies that diet-soda-for-men is about dieting at all: note the slogan “save the calories for bacon” and the name, Pepsi Max, which implies adding something to the beverage as opposed to taking something out.<\/p>\n

See other examples of marketing for diet products aimed at men: Nutrisystem (“get ‘er done!”)<\/a> and Weight Watchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Aani B. and Sarah F. sent in a link to a commercial for the new diet Pepsi (Pepsi Max, of course) being aimed at men.\u00a0 Also don’t miss this commercial (embedding disabled) in which they describe the ingredients of Pepsi Max as the crushed bones of a Viking, the spit of a rapid Wolverine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,55,2087,23703],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dietexercise-industry","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}