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I never said I was a victim of (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} circumstance) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank,@ 2005-09-06 20:23:00 |
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Kellogg's doesn't give a shit about you
This one's just weird.
squinting_kitty posts awhile back in feminist her shock! And disgust! At a relatively harmless Kellogg's commercial depicting a thin woman being blown away by a ceiling fan after eating a low-cal Kellogg's product. According to the OP, this is an "extremely harmful portrayal of body image".
She proceeds to write a furious letter to Kellogg's explaining that if they do not immediately remove the offending commercial, she will stop buying their products, which, she explains very specifically in several paragraphs, would amount to about a $200 annual loss for Kellogg's.
When she inevitably receives a vague form letter in return from Kellogg's, she is surprised that it says nothing of removing the commercial, which she had expected them to do immediately. Genuinely confused by this apparent oversight, she says: "I'm tempted to... use their online form to ask them to tell me whether or not they plan on taking that commercial off the air." Yeah, maybe they just forgot to mention it.
When community members point out that, duh, of course a multinational corporation isn't going to change their marketing strategy based on a single letter,squinting_kitty takes offense:
You mean to tell me The Man doesn't give a shit about your thoughts OR your $200? The SHOCK!
The only wanker here is the OP, but her self-important naïvete wanks very hard indeed.
This one's just weird.
squinting_kitty posts awhile back in feminist her shock! And disgust! At a relatively harmless Kellogg's commercial depicting a thin woman being blown away by a ceiling fan after eating a low-cal Kellogg's product. According to the OP, this is an "extremely harmful portrayal of body image".She proceeds to write a furious letter to Kellogg's explaining that if they do not immediately remove the offending commercial, she will stop buying their products, which, she explains very specifically in several paragraphs, would amount to about a $200 annual loss for Kellogg's.
When she inevitably receives a vague form letter in return from Kellogg's, she is surprised that it says nothing of removing the commercial, which she had expected them to do immediately. Genuinely confused by this apparent oversight, she says: "I'm tempted to... use their online form to ask them to tell me whether or not they plan on taking that commercial off the air." Yeah, maybe they just forgot to mention it.
When community members point out that, duh, of course a multinational corporation isn't going to change their marketing strategy based on a single letter,
squinting_kitty takes offense:I'm one of those people who holds out hope when logic says there probably isn't a good reason left to hope. If you read my letter to them, you may have noticed that Kellogg's has made over $1000 from me in the past 5 years. In my opinion, that might have made a difference to them, especially considering there was no reason why my patronage should have stopped in the future other than this commercial. But I suppose they didn't give a shit.
Now, if you'd like to be helpful rather than just being snarky about my seemingly pointless hope in humanity, then you could write to them and help me boycott. Show them the snark. I plan to, and I would truly appreciate your help rather than your sarcasm.
You mean to tell me The Man doesn't give a shit about your thoughts OR your $200? The SHOCK!
The only wanker here is the OP, but her self-important naïvete wanks very hard indeed.
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