marketing of masculinity

where is the revolver and single bullet and "fuck this world" stationary?

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/11DDE8D1-41BC-4A45-B164-4CA84CD3CE41_zpsu8uecsqz.jpg

Her last name?

The Brotherhood of Shaving. Who invents this bullshit?

they do

http://rs-swisse-cdn.noisybeastdigital.com/content/files/1000/151/boardroom-main.jpg

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

man town

"Man Town" just makes me think of this classic CUTECELSIOR post

I had 7 imaginary friends who were all bunny brothers and sisters... I was also a bunny. my name was... Funtown.

― peacocks, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:27 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-05-10at115324PM_zps1da75978.png

i thought they were real boots for 10 seconds!

"Camouflage" should actually just be a smoke bomb

No seriously, these are all joke candles, right?

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2012/05/Yankee-Candles-Main-1337267181.jpg

Because I want one that smells like victory.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/27/93/ca/2793ca9f9cb203296d33110e3d650050.jpg

These aren't real, but it's getting more difficult to tell.

"Prostate cancer", "Jizz" and "I don't need directions" scents obviously on the way

glad to see you guys have discovered liartownusa

http://24.media.tumblr.com/01ba6f6b75489321a6fb1a67f197f784/tumblr_muhm1obJE21s71q1zo1_1280.png

http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6b082611472398ac88d354ea750193f/tumblr_mtc1m85kli1s71q1zo1_1280.png

I think at times the "be a MAN" schtick is kind of useful as a stand-in for "be an ADULT," -- something that's kind of useful in an era of prolonged childhood. I mean it's really fucking lame when it gets used as an excuse for retrograde attitudes or GQ-type marketing bullshit - where being a man is equated to being some kind of all around great guy with a perfect smile and a cool haircut.

But still, sometimes I find it helpful to say to myself "Be a man. Stop whining and pick yourself up," etc. even if that has hints of retrograde gender attitudes.

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, December 9, 2009

i sometimes feel this way, too, but yeah, there is a lot of gender stereotyping in that notion, and it's probably better to think "be an adult, ffs." still, when "be a man" is used for marketing and many times generally, i don't think the idea behind it is to equate manliness with being "some kind of all around great guy with a perfect smile and a cool haircut." it's much more base than that: physical strength, aggression to hyper-aggression, quick decision-making, an instinct to protect women and children, a preference for decisiveness and action over thoughtfulness and caution, etc., smashing through things instead of trying to navigate around them. i know a lot of this is media-driven notions and obvious, anyway, but it's amazing how strong a hold these notions have over people (including me). even at 46, i still think back to experiences i had as a kid, and sometimes torture myself along these lines ("why didn't you just swing at them" kind of thoughts).

Seward started posting those liartown posts last year. Yankee Candle must be fans too.

http://www.pbdesigns.net/home/organiz/videomgmt/video-outline-GDL.pdf

the first page of this internal planning document from a PR firm trying to sell an overdriven premium cabernet blend from napa is sort of amusing

LUXURY PEDIGREE GENTLEMAN

reads kind of like the grading rubric for a dog show

Voiceover: if not Jeffrey Stambor, then a sophisticated woman’s voice.

Facebook ad I saw today:

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

xp, it's kind of funny that anyone needs to hire a firm for the suggestion to use "luxury" and "tradition" in WINE marketing, like have we gone so far down the gazelle-on-the-label new Zealand Riesling road that we've forgotten that that's been like 99% of wine's marketing appeal for most of its history?

I can't believe Manwich still exists.

Never even thought about it before, but you're absolutely right.

Made even more obvious by having Ron Swanson voice their ads.

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

Manwich: The Dinner of Choice of Kids Living in the Year 1987 A.D.

Isn't sloppy joe sauce just ketchup + mustard + chili powder?

I think Manwich's trick is tomato sauce as well.

And jizz.

just like mom used to make

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

then they got more wacky for millenials and got really creepy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_cMGu9HY0

is hungry-man a big deal in the US? they only have 103 followers on twitter

Their consumer base is still prolly using chain email as its preferred social networking platform

Their consumer base is all dead from fatal heart attacks at age 25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyU--Tb-MO4

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

http://i.imgur.com/Zxk6uEe.gif

in case you don't have time to shit this week

for the man on the... stay.

I think that's the hardest a Morbs post has ever made me lol

otm, i enjoyed that v much

C'mon, almost 1% of that is fiber!

https://twitter.com/mxrk/status/546606308385116160

http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7588/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-spornosexual/

what the fuck is this. what the fuck is this word.

http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7063/rise-of-the-spornosexual/

esquire what the fuck are you trying to do here

This tendency towards buffness is a cultural phenomenon defined by author and journalist Mark Simpson as “spornosexuality”. The term, denoting men who strive to look like sportsmen or porn stars, marks the next stage in the evolution of the preening, mediated “metrosexual” (a word Simpson introduced to the public consciousness in a 1994 article in The Independent, then popularised in a 2002 piece for US news site salon.com).

mark simpson, please break up

What a terrible word. No one is going to actually say that out loud. Esquire, pls stop trying to make spornosexual happen.

lol @ how much better the "before" is here

http://assets.esquire.co.uk/images/uploads/fourbythree/_1080_43/Max-Olesker-promo-43.jpg

No one is going to actually say that out loud.

I'm not even going to click on the link from work.

Basically seems to mean "underwear ad model".

Sportellosexual
http://cdnbakmi.kaltura.com/p/1151292/sp/115129200/thumbnail/entry_id/0_6buo3q0a/version/100002/acv/212/width/648/height/398