marketing of masculinity

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It's the half of humanity who apparently fear waking up in the morning and finding that their penis has been replaced with a vagina.

Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

flipside more liek sameside

Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

men are terrified of women's soap

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

feel like the duke cannon fbook page is just sitting there, ripe....

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link

What I really get from this is that men want fancy soap they pay their hard-earned dollars for, too.

mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

giant soap that does NOT smell like ladies

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

and looks like a urinal disinfectant block

Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

no for real I started using this loofah thing that was on clearance for like $3 with some dove liquid "man soap" and I am starting to see why such a scrubby thing is useful

mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link

i don't understand who this soap's audience thinks is holding them down exactly. who or what is this soap going to rescue them from? perhaps "pussified" in soap terms could stand for the decline of the blue collar working class. all bad things in these men's terms are either "womanly" or "gay" regardless of meaning of nuance, so i think that wraps up all the loose ends.

Spectrum, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link

it's going to rescue them from the urge to use expensive soap that is girly. this is expensive manly soap. these people still want expensive soap. this soap is rough and tough in some way that you have to pay cash money for, unlike a zillion cheap-as-hell soaps that also come in a bar.

it is the $200 trucker hat of bar soaps

mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

or more accurately, the artisan-made hand axe

mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

I would applaud if the soap was actually a dead porcupine

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

surely the point of the big ass brick is that it will do more damage when you wrap it in a towel and use it to savagely beat your fat incompetent co-recruit?

Roobarb and Custos (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link

There's a dead porcupine inside the soap?

Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link

xp it looks more like the kind of soap they'd use to scrub the floor of the 'head'

Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link

idk the commodity fetishism is as glaring as the gay panic -- if ~real men~ ever bought soap, back in the days of flintlock muskets, knifefighting monkeys and hereditrary syphilis, then it was presumably just whatever soap there was, since they were unlikely to patronize the sort of places that sold more than one soap

now even the most banal objects are sold in a hundred near-iterative forms, so producers attempt to successfully commodify an abstraction

'sexual adequacy' is just a more obvious fit for cosmetic goods than 'freedom', 'allure', 'discernment' etc

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOA6trFiU7w

am0n, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link

SHUT UP BITCHEZ AND EAT YR CHICKEN

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link

i was a little O_O over that

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link

the TV version splices that with the nephews ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT8Fg5bwr-0

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link

what's an "ass brick"

slugbuggy, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 09:12 (eleven years ago) link

wow u ppl rly h8 men

first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link

The most important consideration in that ad is...how is that stuff bacon?

grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link

five months pass...

how is that stuff bacon? that's what bacon looks like!

i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Sunday, 12 May 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link

is the secret to performance of a grizzly bear eating geoduck? or is it just there because it looks like a giant cock?

dylannn, Sunday, 12 May 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

Still can't get over this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUpOKtKpQcQ/Tq9z4hZUKQI/AAAAAAAAAmE/TQbksMhUQlg/s320/dr-pepper.jpeg

pplains, Monday, 15 July 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link

BITCH, GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY DR. PEPPER. IT'S NOT FOR YOU.

pplains, Monday, 15 July 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link

"You know this is just Diet Dr. Pepper in a different can, right?"

Meine Damen und Herren, ein grosse sh*tstorm! (snoball), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link

BUT THESE CALORIES ARE "MANLY."

pplains, Monday, 15 July 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link

if there are 10 manly calories in dr pepper 10, surely original dr pepper is 15x as manly

⚓ (elmo argonaut), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link

no fucking good

⚓ (elmo argonaut), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link

otm

twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link

assume that's why it was marked down to 97 cents

twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link

lol @ crapforabuck.com

http://crapforabuck.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/muddingr.jpg?w=420&h=315

pplains, Monday, 15 July 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link

aw, thought i was neil armstrong of bad shampoo :(

twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Monday, 15 July 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/rQCahsR.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link

shut. up.

a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link

dying of lols over here

a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link

I wonder how they'll market the Activia version.

nickn, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link

PLAIN

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link

YOGURT

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link

"Thanks to the “mancession,” metrosexuals have become “manfluencers™”"

etc, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link

he looks like he's going to just spoon it directly into his navel

CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link

and make loud OM NOM smacking sounds

CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link


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