http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/341792051_2bc38f8e02.jpg
― Pies and Whispers (get bent), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
goatse, that last one
― ampersand (remy bean), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
how's this for a masculine look - the sweater's hand-made by this boy's great-aunt:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4672733796_bee5fce3f6_b.jpg
eat your heart out, hipster knitters
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno about masculine, but it's certainly awesome
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
My kid in a sweatervest that was knitted for me as a child by my Godmother's mother:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs429.snc3/24717_407929428782_556118782_5017459_69855_n.jpg
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
awwwThat is a great vest that definitely looks homemade. No one sells garments made of variegated yarn. It's a dead giveaway that it was gifted by a crafty relative.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
He looks a lot happier to be wearing it than the kid in Tracer's photo.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
they're both beautiful!
― Pies and Whispers (get bent), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/the-stupidest-mens-produc_n_625532.html
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Saturday, 26 June 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
That actually isn't very funny, sorry.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Saturday, 26 June 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, didn't see this thread had a massive bump! everyone otm, especially Tiarnan who is imo near-unimpeachable on gender/gay issues
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 June 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the bud light handbag one is my least favorite commercial of all time
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
even tho there's a slight homophobic undercurrent ("your pants are too tight!") to it, i think the one of bros zinging bros is actually an acceptable entry into the "marketing of masculinity" canon -- forget which beer it's for tho
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
always wonder how the women in these commercials feel -- if it's worse or equal to paying your rent by porn -- like having to be the chick in the bud light one where you find out that a dude would legit throw you off a cliff before he threw his beer off the cliff -- i know it's acting but still
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDC76D9l94
― colnagl (cozen), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
(...)
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
What is the piece of music during the lolwomen part?
― the aztec mystic pizza (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that was my first question too
― Noise Pictorial Works Juvenile Fiction (Abbott), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
REFUSED PARTY PROGRAMME
― Whiney G. Savagegarten (LOLK), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phv_ARrphac
― Whiney G. Savagegarten (LOLK), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
that Sewing For Men and Boys is th emost horrifying thing I've seen all week. The black guy's in an eighties suit, the guy in the middle is rockin' it like it's 1976, and the boy upfront is Lord Byron.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
My problem is, how do I convince my bf to go with me to see that movie without making him suspicious that it's all for 15 minutes of Statham screen time.
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently that trailer is fan-made : /
― colnagl (cozen), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
when your collection of tough guys features someone called 'Randy Couture' you're surely doin it rong?
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
My boss just forwarded this to the entire department...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
"I'm on a horse"
^^^^^granted, though, this is actually genuinely laugh out loud funny. (at least to 4 IT workers in a basement.) But is it the kind of advert this thread describes, or is it a pisstake of the kind of advert (or is it both a pisstake and also an ad playing on the same fears.)? I'm confused.
― procedurally generated todge (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
both
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i think
(or is it both a pisstake and also an ad playing on the same fears
this.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
a pisstake ad is never just a pisstake ad
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
a pisstake ad is never just a pisstake
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
but a piss is still a piss as urine gooooeess byyyyyeeee
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. awful.
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
It's just odd, the layers, in both taking the piss out of manipulation, while still using that same manipulation. And somehow more effective (at least, if my boss is anything to go by) for that knowingness.
― procedurally generated todge (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
well, good marketing depts wouldn't be known for lacking cynicism. not to the trick, then perform the trick behind the nod.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://current.com/shows/infomania/92581445_thats-gay-sissy-commercials.htm
hey everybody go f urself imo lol
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
This is, quite frankly, the best response ever to Old Spice Man:
http://oldspice-kinkmeme.dreamwidth.org/460.html?thread=12748#cmt12748
(warning: contains implied slash but still SFW)
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
old spice man seems totally out of place with the rest of those v clearly heteronormative ads imo
liiiike, the bit at the end when he's sitting on the horse and dude says "guess what? totally gay"---i'm pretty sure the ad is aware of that?
― pies. (gbx), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but loads of stuff does that double bluff thing where it pretends to be subverting a norm by perpetuating it, this is especially prevalent in advertising now.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
no i get that, it's just---i had never seen the rest of those commercials and was kinda O_O at how they were so clearly informed by gay panic or w/e
like srsly that colorado speedway one was wild---two guys in pink sweaters, sipping tea!
― pies. (gbx), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It's kind of amazing how homoerotic some of the man ads can be.
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's interesting (maybe) how lots of these need to create a this-is-how-women-want-you-to-act context
also i feel like maybe they're designed to play on one level to another audience and another to another, so hm
― thomp, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
*strokes beard*
always thought the [uk?] lynx adverts were curious in their deflationary view of masculinity as now-lucked-out passive clueless sorts, sometimes literally being eaten by voracious impulsive nuts-style Babes. seems v british.
― ogmor, Thursday, 5 August 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
James May is on a mission to save modern man. Thirty years ago men were a resourceful, practical and dependable band of brothers. Today, somehow, they have been reduced to shambling, useless, half-drunk and unreliable oafs in the eyes of society, a reputation perpetuated by the popular culture of blokeishness, which says they're a bit pitiable, endearingly hopeless and completely unable to multi-task.
From Man Lab HQ, James leads a team of today's lost male souls on the slightly muddy but invigorating path to enlightenment. They face an array of inventive practical tests, learn how to deal with the mysteries of romance and reclaim the notion of teamwork in a series of daunting challenges that demonstrates to the world that men can be a dependable and admirable bunch rather than the tepid receptacles for sperm many now assume them to be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vsw36
― cozen, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
??
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
sounded dodgier to me before I actually googled the precise definition of receptacle :)
still, james may is a fandan
― cozen, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Well the word suggests receivership, "catching" if you will
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't stop hearing that programme description as being read by Julian Clary.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
half-drunk(...)Each week, James sets an example to his team of men by facing a breathtaking test of courage and skill that would be more at home in an action movie. They go to the pub quite a lot too.
also...
James May learns how to defuse an unexploded bomb and serenade a woman.
At the same time?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The trailer makes grim viewing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8I6hN4Y3qg
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Why are there so many commercials featuring a few guys sitting around watching television?
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link