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miss_padfoot (miss_padfoot) wrote in unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-06-07 17:02:00

Current mood:

Flippant

Target Women in advertising
I actually think this video is funny, but since there's some sexism involved, I'm putting it here: Sarah Haskins makes fun of TV advertising aimed at women. (Who's Sarah Haskins? I don't know, but I like her.)

The latest video is about insulting "fairy tale" advertisements, including one where a chronically single princess is saved from eternal solitude by some dude with a glass of milk, and another (by the milk people again) where milk cures the princess's horrible PMS (I'm not kidding).

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	chibikaijuu 2009-06-07 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Sarah Haskins is awesome. I love Target Women (though the grammar of the title bothers me). (Reply to this)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2009-06-08 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	I thought it was "Target: Women." Even in my memory I correct grammar. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	esorlehcar 2009-06-07 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Sarah Haskins is wonderful. Pretty much every Target Women has been awesome. (Reply to this)

	tiye 2009-06-07 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	The horrific grammar in those milk ads may have bothered me even more than the blatant sexism. Not using neither x nor y? Seriously?! The princess stood in her castle, who wept . . .? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	miss_padfoot 2009-06-07 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Dangling modifiers are always funny! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	honorh 2009-06-08 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Not using neither x nor y? Wut? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiye 2009-06-08 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	Ok, I found the exact quote: "Without using neither force nor a sword . . ." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady_jafaria 2009-06-08 05:45 am UTC (link)
	I've heard of weeping cocks, but not weeping castles. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	weaselistic 2009-06-08 12:53 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, her "weeping" "castle". Come on! Menstruation! :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	doomsday 2009-06-07 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	The birth control one is my favorite. I ♥ her. (Reply to this)

	frenzy 2009-06-08 12:03 am UTC (link)
	My favorite is the one about "Your Garden," aka ladyparts. I laughed so hard at 1:30 that there were tears. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hallidae 2009-06-08 06:49 am UTC (link)
	The burning, not so much, but the booming "MOSEEES!" did it for me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chibikaijuu 2009-06-08 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	SARLACC THE SAND PIT. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	issendai 2009-06-09 03:37 am UTC (link)
	THAT IS MY NEW NAME FOR IT. THANK GOD I DATE GEEKS WHO WILL THINK IT'S A CHALLENGE TO LIVE UP TO BOBA FETT. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_hierodule 2009-06-09 08:09 am UTC (link)
	Accidentally fall in when their jetpack gets triggered by an outside force, then crawl out in an unrelated spin-off as a scarred wreck? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	issendai 2009-06-09 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	Everyone's had a date like that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_hierodule 2009-06-10 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	Not a date, no, but a friends-with-benefits attempt once went back to plain friends after a similar experience. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ashacrone 2009-06-08 12:38 am UTC (link)
	is dead from lol (Reply to this)

	caito 2009-06-08 01:09 am UTC (link)
	I have been following Sarah Haskins since she started Target Women, and I want to gay-marry her sometimes a little bit. She's incredibly funny and makes really great points at the same time. She usually skewered advertisements, but sometimes goes off on things like Twilight as well. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	notjo 2009-06-08 01:46 am UTC (link)
	You can't have her, she's mine. MINE. I mean... if she wants to be mine. Y'know... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thebratqueen 2009-06-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
	I saw her first! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deadwood 2009-06-08 05:17 am UTC (link)
	Is this where I put in my bid for her? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sadisticferret 2009-06-08 06:05 am UTC (link)
	Clearly, the only solution here is cloning. That way we can all marry her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deadwood 2009-06-08 09:42 am UTC (link)
	I approve of this notion. Does anyone know how we can go about getting DNA samples? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_hierodule 2009-06-08 11:37 am UTC (link)
	I can think of a few ways. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	issendai 2009-06-09 03:39 am UTC (link)
	I volunteer to be the lucky--er, I mean, the valiant sacrifice in the name of SCIENCE!. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Stupidest ad line ever.

t_boy
2009-06-08 12:02 pm UTC (link)

Emotions cause sweat in women.

While in men, emotions cause our tertiary antennas to pivot in the z-axis.

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	Re: Stupidest ad line ever. the_hierodule 2009-06-09 08:10 am UTC (link)
	So that's what the kids call it these days. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bangoskank 2009-06-08 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, my friend showed me these a while back. I love love love her. (Reply to this)

	kookaburra 2009-06-08 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh, I haven't been able to catch the New Target:Women eps in a while. My fave is still a toss up between yogurt and wedding shows. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	grand_sealink 2009-06-09 09:40 am UTC (link)
	I love the wedding one. I love all of them, really. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2009-06-09 03:46 am UTC (link)
	snrrrrrrrk Oh, oh, oh my god. There is nothing unfunny about this Unfunnybusiness post. The "Your Garden" one is going straight to my polite, ladylike, laughs-like-a-hyena mother. (Reply to this)

	velvet_mace 2009-06-10 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Has she done one on breakfast cereal? Because I swear breakfast cereal companies always seem to portray women as smug, self-righteous assholes for some reason. As a woman who likes cereal, I kinda resent the implication. (Reply to this)

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