Anonymous wrote:I HATE IT.

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Anonymous wrote:Women just can't win and other women are the reason.

Unless a woman conforms to a standard that other women have set for her, she is going to be called gross and unattractive. this is supposed to be a child of maybe 15-16 in the commercial just figuring out who she is and trying to love herself. But DCUM harpies have to be hating on everything. I'm sure you'd all be up in arms if someone commented on how your daughter's shorts were too tight.

The thing about ads is this: they should resonate with the most people in a positive way.

I’ll never understand why marketing firms think showcasing something that isn’t likely to resonate with most women will yield positive results. Face it: you rarely see a woman with a mustache IRL. It’s not a good look.

There are other ways to convey nonconformity. A Mohawk. Purple hair. A granny in a moto jacket. A teen in coastal grandma gear.

Haven’t seen the ad, but the bolded is going to vary depending on where you live and what kind of crowd your kid runs with. I have a teenage daughter in a school for performing and visual arts, and there is a whole lot of body and facial hair going on in the born-female crowd. So much so that I hardly register it on young women anymore. There is definitely a conscious radical self-acceptance movement among a certain group of young women and they absolutely couldn’t care less who they offend.

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Anonymous wrote:Women just can't win and other women are the reason.

Unless a woman conforms to a standard that other women have set for her, she is going to be called gross and unattractive. this is supposed to be a child of maybe 15-16 in the commercial just figuring out who she is and trying to love herself. But DCUM harpies have to be hating on everything. I'm sure you'd all be up in arms if someone commented on how your daughter's shorts were too tight.

The thing about ads is this: they should resonate with the most people in a positive way.

I’ll never understand why marketing firms think showcasing something that isn’t likely to resonate with most women will yield positive results. Face it: you rarely see a woman with a mustache IRL. It’s not a good look.

There are other ways to convey nonconformity. A Mohawk. Purple hair. A granny in a moto jacket. A teen in coastal grandma gear.

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Anonymous wrote:Women just can't win and other women are the reason.

Unless a woman conforms to a standard that other women have set for her, she is going to be called gross and unattractive. this is supposed to be a child of maybe 15-16 in the commercial just figuring out who she is and trying to love herself. But DCUM harpies have to be hating on everything. I'm sure you'd all be up in arms if someone commented on how your daughter's shorts were too tight.

I think the fact that people are posting on it is kind of the point of the ad.

So it’s not being harpies, it’s discussing the effect of art in advertising on the audience.

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Anonymous wrote:It freaked me out. What was that about? Was it something with trans?

I hadn't seen it until I saw this thread. I'm a trans woman and after watching it, it seems pretty obvious to me that the person in the video is a nonbinary AFAB person, most likely on testosterone. It's clearly queer coded and the person is clearly supposed to be gender nonconforming and almost certainly nonbinary. They could have made it more obvious with something like a trans flag but that's probably too on the nose for cis viewers. I'd wager the only reason that there wasn't a blahaj in the video is because it's an Ikea product. If you're not familiar, it's a large and inexpensive stuffed shark from Ikea that happens to have the same colors as the trans flag and has become a thing in trans culture.

I don’t know. I thought it was about a girl accepting herself as she is with a mustache rather than conform to societal standards, as many women have a mustache if they don’t wax it off. I don’t think everyone nonconforming to societal standards needs to be trans or non-binary. Yes, I’m cis, but also that’s my take on it and the audience is everyone. Maybe it’s vague so we can all take from it as we see fit, and in that case it’s well done. We can all see ourselves in that girl.

I don’t like it mostly because I think, to me, it’s like she wants desperately to find acceptance through buying things on Amazon. It’s just a weird message.

Find happiness through buying things of the message of all ads.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women just can't win and other women are the reason.

Unless a woman conforms to a standard that other women have set for her, she is going to be called gross and unattractive. this is supposed to be a child of maybe 15-16 in the commercial just figuring out who she is and trying to love herself. But DCUM harpies have to be hating on everything. I'm sure you'd all be up in arms if someone commented on how your daughter's shorts were too tight.

The thing about ads is this: they should resonate with the most people in a positive way.

I’ll never understand why marketing firms think showcasing something that isn’t likely to resonate with most women will yield positive results. Face it: you rarely see a woman with a mustache IRL. It’s not a good look.

There are other ways to convey nonconformity. A Mohawk. Purple hair. A granny in a moto jacket. A teen in coastal grandma gear.

Anonymous wrote:The yellow faux leather jacket with the multiple straps is an homage to Eddie Murphy (who wore a similar red jacket in his most famous stand up concert).

Anonymous wrote:Women just can't win and other women are the reason.

Unless a woman conforms to a standard that other women have set for her, she is going to be called gross and unattractive. this is supposed to be a child of maybe 15-16 in the commercial just figuring out who she is and trying to love herself. But DCUM harpies have to be hating on everything. I'm sure you'd all be up in arms if someone commented on how your daughter's shorts were too tight.

Anonymous wrote:Women just can't win and other women are the reason.

Unless a woman conforms to a standard that other women have set for her, she is going to be called gross and unattractive. this is supposed to be a child of maybe 15-16 in the commercial just figuring out who she is and trying to love herself. But DCUM harpies have to be hating on everything. I'm sure you'd all be up in arms if someone commented on how your daughter's shorts were too tight.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It freaked me out. What was that about? Was it something with trans?

I hadn't seen it until I saw this thread. I'm a trans woman and after watching it, it seems pretty obvious to me that the person in the video is a nonbinary AFAB person, most likely on testosterone. It's clearly queer coded and the person is clearly supposed to be gender nonconforming and almost certainly nonbinary. They could have made it more obvious with something like a trans flag but that's probably too on the nose for cis viewers. I'd wager the only reason that there wasn't a blahaj in the video is because it's an Ikea product. If you're not familiar, it's a large and inexpensive stuffed shark from Ikea that happens to have the same colors as the trans flag and has become a thing in trans culture.

I don’t know. I thought it was about a girl accepting herself as she is with a mustache rather than conform to societal standards, as many women have a mustache if they don’t wax it off. I don’t think everyone nonconforming to societal standards needs to be trans or non-binary. Yes, I’m cis, but also that’s my take on it and the audience is everyone. Maybe it’s vague so we can all take from it as we see fit, and in that case it’s well done. We can all see ourselves in that girl.

I don’t like it mostly because I think, to me, it’s like she wants desperately to find acceptance through buying things on Amazon. It’s just a weird message.

Find happiness through buying things of the message of all ads.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It freaked me out. What was that about? Was it something with trans?

I hadn't seen it until I saw this thread. I'm a trans woman and after watching it, it seems pretty obvious to me that the person in the video is a nonbinary AFAB person, most likely on testosterone. It's clearly queer coded and the person is clearly supposed to be gender nonconforming and almost certainly nonbinary. They could have made it more obvious with something like a trans flag but that's probably too on the nose for cis viewers. I'd wager the only reason that there wasn't a blahaj in the video is because it's an Ikea product. If you're not familiar, it's a large and inexpensive stuffed shark from Ikea that happens to have the same colors as the trans flag and has become a thing in trans culture.

I don’t know. I thought it was about a girl accepting herself as she is with a mustache rather than conform to societal standards, as many women have a mustache if they don’t wax it off. I don’t think everyone nonconforming to societal standards needs to be trans or non-binary. Yes, I’m cis, but also that’s my take on it and the audience is everyone. Maybe it’s vague so we can all take from it as we see fit, and in that case it’s well done. We can all see ourselves in that girl.

I don’t like it mostly because I think, to me, it’s like she wants desperately to find acceptance through buying things on Amazon. It’s just a weird message.