The closest I can think of is David Beckham taking shit for seeming to be more about modeling than soccer, but that's about dedication to his craft, not a sexiness narrative in the same way.So I'd say no.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 07:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
like there were some beefcake-y ads/fashion shots in the local paper (not sure if they were national ads, or just local ones), and at least one sexy-romantic one featuring that SF Giants pitcher after they won the World Series -- the guy that looks a little like Nirvana-era Dave Grohl. Dunno his name.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 07:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tim Lincecum, probably. He is popular with the ladies. And stoners.
He mostly just gets asked why his fastball has dropped 4mph over the last two seasons.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 07:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
"David Beckham sexiness narrative"
― mac and me (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jonathan Ross' Becks interview a few weeks back was all about the sexiness narrative iirc.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
On another board I visit, someone posted this to a "Funny pictures" thread:
Sure, you can be critical of the "Myspace pose", but how does anyone think this is a good or funny way of doing that?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
why is elmer fudd doing the deed here?
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's duck season
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i suppose it's not that sexy is sometimes part of the narrative for attractive women athletes, it's that it's almost never not part of the narrative. beckham, i assume they focus on it sometimes but other times not at all.
i dunno how to even parse this dr. pepper thing. it seems like it's satirizing the "man food" approach like in those burger king ads or whatnot while still conveying the same message? those bk ads seemed self-parodying anyway so how do you clown a clown? the "it's not for women" approach only makes me more aware that diet sodas are considered unmanly and that objectively there's no difference between dr. pepper 10 and a tab or whatever in regards to soft-drink genderedness.
i don't how many layers of irony or mock irony you need to pack your message in but i'll willingly drink a diet soda w/out fear of developing an auxiliary vagina so that's probably too many unnecessary layers right there.
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:13 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
its an old gag where he fires the shotgun in daffy duck's face, and it spins his bill around to face the other side of his head
its a comment on the 'duckface' that young women make in photos
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Re: Dr. Pepper Ten
― naus, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:13 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Rabbit season.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp
Tuesday, 31 March 1998 12:00AM Be the first to comment
- Worthington has returned to television advertising with a new campaign that ditches comedian Harry Enfield in favour of 'real lads' exploits.
The commercial aims to make Worthington the 'lads beer for the 90s'. To achieve this Worthington has chosen a laddish creative treatment that pokes fun at men who engage in unladdish activities.
Created by agency WCRS, the ad start by posing a question about laddish behaviour. The narrator asks: 'why do lads always take the mickey?' In answering the question, the commercial then enters a surreal world where we see what would happen if lads didn't take the mickey: they would compliment each other on their appearance and, as a consequence, become interested in hand cream. This would have the disastrous result of smoothing the lads' palms to such a degree that their pint glasses slip straight through and smash on the floor.
The ad closes with the tag line "Worthington. It's a Man Thing'. The campaign was written by WCRS creatives Andy Brittain and Yu Kung and was director by Traktor.
According to WCRS account director Jonathan Rigby: "Our objective is clear - to make Worthington the lads beer brand for the 90s. The campaign marks a welcome return to classic beer advertising - simple, well observed and infectiously funny."
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like the Yorkie ads might have 'worked', as much as they're cretinous, but Worthington just seems desperate and reaching
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Yorkie" sounds like such a girl thing though.
― beachville, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that part of the joke?
― beachville, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
No. Don't know why they were called Yorkie though, because Yorkshiremen are all like tough and rugged, 'appen?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'll do the libretto for this opera fyi
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Speaking of Danica Patrick...
― Nicole, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^Was just coming to post that.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha
asshole
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also the idea of a manly candy bar is hilarious to me and I've bought Yorkies specifically because of their stupid marketing campaign.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Which is probably what they wanted all along but whatever.
yorkies are pretty good but they could have used smaller gauge nail chunks, also motor oil that wasn't loaded with transfats
― flagp∞st (dayo), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
the idea of a manly candy bar is hilarious to me
If you think that's stupid, try this...
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are they still using that slogan?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
...
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really don't understand society sometimes
"You'll never put a better bit of butter on your wife"
^ old joke that will make no sense to anyone outside the UK
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Arr, that be Cuntry Loife buttr.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cuntry Crock
― beachville, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
good thing they put pictures of flowers all over my man margarine now i am transexual
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think we need a thread of this stuff
".. and the ladies that love them!"
(soz)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
To be fair, those really only have one use.
(xpost)
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
brands for MENS
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
we had the dockers thread didn't we
― flagp∞st (dayo), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
marketing of masculinity
I approve of this manly spinoff tho
― flagp∞st (dayo), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i conceived of the brands for mens thread as specifically for products that are trying to convince men that theyre not fags for using them while being no different than the stuff girls like eg coke zero/diet coke is how i break it down to an extent
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
although diet coke does have more caffeine than coke zero, factoid
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^ both disgusting imo
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I swear I started a thread about those Men kleenex once.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh I didn't but I posted about them here:marketing of masculinity
They're hysterical. Slogan might as well have been: Because you're too old to still be using your sock.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
or using some godawful hankerchief and putting it in your pocket full of snot
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty sure it's just for wanking
― sarahell, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
real men just let the jizz dry and peel it off later, or maybe not at all
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
the layers of dried jizz make your dick look... aah nevermind
― flagp∞st (dayo), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
cigar box
― what's a goon to garbus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
*shudders*
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/06/talking-female-suicide-right-wrong-vice-way.html
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 20:58 (Yesterday) Permalink
Talking Famous Female Suicide Blues
― PappaWheelie on the zeitgeist (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:05 (Yesterday) Permalink
this is such an unbelievably boring controversy, though i didn't know before that there was a female suicide stereotype so i guess thanks for that
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:09 (Yesterday) Permalink
I think "people in the process of killing themselves" is a problem, and "women, and only women, in the process of killing themselves" is a problem in an even bigger and probably blinking font.
out of the context of this being in an issue of Vice dedicated to women in fiction I have no idea how I'd take it, but their juxtaposition of this art against work and interviews with contemporary writers is gross in a way that Vice tries to pull off when they feel like they might be taken seriously
all of this, basically
― should we bin tapping? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:16 (Yesterday) Permalink
The styling of the shoot is no big deal, not special, not all that artistic. It's hard to duck fast enough to avoid the message that the only good female writer is a dead female writer, though.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:20 (Yesterday) Permalink
I like that NYMag piece by Michelle Dean.
― mh, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:44 (Yesterday) Permalink
'female writers suicides' is such a zoolander theme i cant even tho
― should we bin tapping? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
i was thinking more bruno, but yeah
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:51 (Yesterday) Permalink
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There's quite a number of things one can hold against this photoshoot, but 'the only good female writer is a dead female writer'? Not picking up that vibe tbh.
Can't call this a sexist thing either. Mysoginist, appalling, a generally terrible idea? Certainly. But sexist?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:33 (Yesterday) Permalink
wait how can something be misogynist but not sexist i dont understand
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:38 (Yesterday) Permalink
it's not true that the only good female writer is a dead one, but in order to be a GREAT writer she's gotta kill herself.
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:43 (Yesterday) Permalink
i'm sorry if that's a bit flippant but there's the fallacy of genius as madness and then there's the notion (cited in the article zavhlyon posted) that the only violence a woman can commit is against herself so... here we are, i guess
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:45 (Yesterday) Permalink