marketing of masculinity

I drive past a billboard on the way to work every day that says:

Your Wife is Hot

Maybe it's time to call us to come service your air conditioner

there is a car repair place down the street from me who have that one spelled out in their letter board out front

shit, that must be industry standard, that same line has been in use for like 10 years down here.

https://medium.com/@remakingmanhood/why-do-we-murder-the-beautiful-friendships-of-boys-3ad722942755

wow.

PISS IN THE FROG'S MOUTH LIKE A MEN!! pic.twitter.com/FbwPkKDOUf

— Sammy (@SamChaplin) September 4, 2017

omg

that's toxic reinforcement, sheesh

Wow. The actual site is no better.

https://www.babys-steps.com/collections/potties/products/cute-ergonomic-baby-boy-urinal

I assumed maybe someone had just typo'd men instead of man in the ad. But no. It's a thing.

The spinning epiglotis waterwheel must surely just fling piss back at you if you're urinating with any force? And I have it on good authority that little bots can urinate with force.

If you're a true baby men you don't care if the piss flies back on you. You just accept it, just like you accept pooping all over mommy

Toxic masculinity is fucking WILD pic.twitter.com/gkRGpMEbsz

— crowcialist 🏔 (@McKChuck) January 3, 2018

is the "Not for Clowns" logo a direct attack on ICP?

"Like they would use soap anyway..." Fair enough, but still.

wayzata, long known as the fucking *hardest* twin cities suburb

is the "Not for Clowns" logo a direct attack on ICP?

the hatchet would indicate as much, which is amusing since Juggalos have a better rep now than ever before

I walk past a basket of this stuff every morning. From the name, I had an idea of where they were coming from, but didn't realize they were throwing ICP and Appletinis into the same... basket.

i have dr bronner's bar soap, what kind of marketing is that

ahaha what a rush it must be, bein' a guy pic.twitter.com/eG4NjCdojD

— Fire Marshal Meaghan (@meaghan_garvey) January 9, 2018

Christ

ha

that's hilarious

wld definitely sniff

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/810zyxKhyuL._SX355_.jpg

i'll measure time
i'll measure height

haha, i thought the same thing!
did you hear the rock band version or string version in your head?

mansize? Do men have substantially bigger noses? What could they possible need a larger tissue. . .oh.

\m/

judging by this advert, women are also permitted to use mansize tissue to do ladylike things, or if they "have a man size cold"

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/2009/08/kleenex-1024x682.jpg

Kleenex was trying to square the circle there

that ad is from 1964 but imo it's striking how similar it is to a lot of the 21st century ads on this thread, in that it's kind of ironic and aware that "tissues for MEN" is a self-evidently ridiculous concept, but still pushing this marketing of masculinity idea

the new target redesign in my area includes a spacious department store-like special area for men's products (and a corresponding area for women's products/makeup that looks more like ulta/sephora/department store)

and what would you like for Christmas?
a train and a boat and a gun please mummy

pic.twitter.com/eG4NjCdojD

This shit is hilarious - but it doesn’t strike me as any more or less absurd than gear that’s marketed on the ultra-feminine end of the spectrum. (The navy sea tactical soap from upthread, on the other hand, that’s some crazy toxic shit.) I imagine stuff like this is just companies finally cottonong on to the fact they can do gender-specific marketing & charge a premium price to men the same way they’ve been doing to women for years.

the thing that annoys me the most about "masculine" bath products is that all the men's shampoos are combination shampoo/conditioners. I'd be willing to give all the REAL MAN STUFF MADE WITH WOOD CHIPS AND CAFFEINE nonsense a pass if I could just wash and condition my hair separately.

this is the cologne my dad uses because he's a man:

https://i.imgur.com/3WYtsXe.jpg

someone needs to tell the brut graphic design team to spruce it up with more manly objects, maybe add some guns and a dead animal or something

the best:

http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server5300/zwwtm3/products/564/images/474/yhst-16274294850213_2220_1587229__54697.1344354235.305.455.jpg?c=2

I think the first deodorant I bought as an early teen was Brut branded. They're truly the classic supermarket shelf man fragrance, precursor to those extreme branding upstarts like Axe

Could be a liqueur, could be an aftershave, only one or two ways to find out! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pinaud? oh yeah, those are bitters, just dab a drop or two into your drink!

Karl is this how you were....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlIKJuM1yQ

the thing that annoys me the most about "masculine" bath products is that all the men's shampoos are combination shampoo/conditioners. I'd be willing to give all the REAL MAN STUFF MADE WITH WOOD CHIPS AND CAFFEINE nonsense a pass if I could just wash and condition my hair separately.

― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, January 11, 2018 10:47 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is inefficient and thus unmanly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQILMcXC5a0

Most scented products marketed to men smell totally gross to me. Like somebody poured paint stripper on a pine tree. I've used Degree Shower Scent deodorant for decades, during which time it's vacillated between being marketed as a unisex product and something exclusively for the ladies. I think it's the latter at the moment. All I care about is that it doesn't evoke a gasoline-tainted bag of lawn clippings and charred beef.

I don't really get the idea that shampoo is really any different for women or men

if you want really expensive men's shampoo/conditioner and buy into the idea salon junk is in any way better quality, aveda sells individual ones for men

men need shampoo to wash out the sweat/coal dust/engine grease; conditioning in itself is unmanly

I'm sure it's been mentioned before in this thread but so much of this stuff reminds me of the ads from Dudley Moore's Crazy People.

http://i.imgur.com/wg2fB5X.png

Haha, also that movie has a scene where a non-Dudley Moore person tries to come up with a shampoo ad and says something about adding body, and John Heard's ad exec contemptuously replies, "Shampoos rob your hair of body, everyone knows that." Don't know why that line is so oddly memorable.

you'll pry the caffeine out of my face lotion out of my cold dry hands

Karl is this how you were....

haha, no, it was my dad who used it (still uses it, i think). every christmas my dad would get some from my mom, and he'd say "oh, brut!" and my mom would say "he only uses brut"

lol

Ton Brut stan n'est pas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgU9CSpiNVw