High fructose corn syrup is good for me! Thanks for the non-biased info, government-subsidized corngrowers' association!
I am so tired of these commercials.
(Which I'm sure are available on YouTube, if you're inclined to watch them.)
Showing posts with label Assvertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assvertising. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
This is a real thing in the world.
Um. This is apparently an actual series of ads created by Ogilvy Atlanta for the Boy Scouts of America:
[Click to embiggen.]
Okay, there is a lot of stuff going on here—the equating of hairiness with masculinity, and a particular brand of "natural" masculinity, at that; the equating of hairiness with wildness; the substitution of "a brunette white kid, a redheaded white kid, and a blond white kid" for racial diversity; the aging of children to promote a group that has [trigger warning] an institutional problem with sex abuse—but, apart from (and in addition to) all of that, this shit is just fucking WEIRD.
[Via Copyranter.]
[Click to embiggen.]
Okay, there is a lot of stuff going on here—the equating of hairiness with masculinity, and a particular brand of "natural" masculinity, at that; the equating of hairiness with wildness; the substitution of "a brunette white kid, a redheaded white kid, and a blond white kid" for racial diversity; the aging of children to promote a group that has [trigger warning] an institutional problem with sex abuse—but, apart from (and in addition to) all of that, this shit is just fucking WEIRD.
[Via Copyranter.]
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