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A guy(definitely a dudebro) once ate a hot pocket off my stomach during a protracted sex session. Maybe greasy food and sexual desire have become linked in the male mind, or maybe it was the marijuana, but it didn't turn my stomach. It just made me laugh because I am ticklish.
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I hate that. Women's bodies aren't sex. This isn't sex. This is a sexualized image of a woman. This is boobs, and ass, and the body parts in between. It's not sex. It's a female body, and it's being sold to men.
Why don't they try to sell mens bodies to women? That would sell, too. But it's quite, quite rare. I hate advertising. They ignore women completely unless they are reminding us that we have to buy makeup or poop-yogurt so we can look more like the ideal they've been selling to men. Or that we have to clean our house. Fuck offfff.
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The woman has to be sexy without trying. She should be lithe and taut in a swimsuit while giving the illusion of snarfing down burgers all day. She shouldn't be one of those silly pansy ladies who just subsist on YOGURT!!!!! and SALAD!!11. No, she should be a MAN'S WOMAN, a woman you can take out with the guys, a woman who won't shy from a 32-oz porterhouse and a pitcher of beer!
But she still has to look sexy while doing it. Effortlessly.
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WHY don't I fork my money over to these companies anymore? Something about all their food having an aftertaste of raging double standards.
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'Cause, you know, women love that...
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Dammit, I can't find it on YouTube.
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I always hated those, too.
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They're about eating yogurt because "men's preferences will never change".
It's not what you're talking about exactly, but I'm sure they'll get around to that if you just give it some time.
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And no, I've never seen the Brazilian ads.
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(Also, I never realized that is almost exactly how the mister and I go about the sexy. Squeeze, rub, groom and done. Subliminals ftw.)
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Then there is the second one, where the guy is similarly bragging to his buddy about the same thing and the woman is like, 'Um, excuse me?' and shames the dude into hanging up or some crap. I don't get it. Women = yogurt hoarders obsessed with being thin, and men = dumbasses that don't deserve sweets.
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It is weird, though, why is yogurt a woman thing?
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Ah, memories.
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Everything nowadays makes me want a burger. Having sex makes me want burgers. Getting on the train in the morning makes me want burgers. Cracking my knuckles makes me want burgers. Running on a treadmill makes me want burgers. Feeding my cat makes me want burgers. Talking to my mom on the phone makes me want burgers.
In conclusion, get your fucking burgers out of my face, fast food restaurants.
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I wish I could just wear a tuxedo tee shirt.
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I get it, it sells. BUT McDonalds, Taco Bell etc all do booming business as well without having sexist, misogynistic and offensive advertisements. Arbys and Wendys manage to cater their ads to a young, male demographic without being as offensive.
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And you know why they don't want to think about why they approve.
And you don't really want to think too much about that either.
(And really, I don't blame you.)
Welcome to America, land of the PC, home of the bottom line
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There are way more families with young kids and seniors out there, but I guess they all go to McDonald's. I think these ads might just cement a chain as an also ran in the burger wars.
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It is off limits.
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I wonder how the holes are in Spooner?
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Thanks for sharing. And for fucking up the craving I had for sausage biscuits, for a hot minute anyway.
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I'm reminded of discussions regarding negative political ads during campaigns. While everyone pretty much agrees that they coarsen the dialogue, cheapen the discourse and veer attention away from the issues in favor of petty personal attacks, study after study has shown that, despite all this, negative campaigning is extremely effective and so can only be ignored if a politician is enjoying a crushing advantage over his or her opponent.
In the same way, capitalism is fairly cutthroat in the same way that the sun is fairly hot and the universe is fairly large and so if a firm finds a technique to increase its profit in one way or another, it will seize it with little to no regard to the consequences. Remember, firms exist to minimize cost and maximize profit. All else is secondary. If the benefits of selling the organs of orphan children to zoos for meat outweighed the costs, I'll bet you a Whooper (tm) that it would become widespread. So, should we be surprised?
I'd say the fact that this supposedly works is more sad than the fact that it's used. Though only slightly so.
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I try to tell this to my father all the time. He's still apparently too idealistic to understand.
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