I'm getting a little bit sick of having boobs shoved in my face when I am surfing around the internets. I am sure we all are. I am also well aware of why my adoring "lady" readers might have a bigger (ha ha!) problem than I do with this, but I am formally going on record as finding it disgusting that just about any product advertised at me involves some woman with giant brestesses. Now this might make sense if I was looking for porn or porn-related materials. Or even when I am exploring the darker side of the internets, as in when I have missed an episode of Lost and I turn to the torrentspy.com. I understand that it is generally young men that are using that site and young men might be readily tempted into clicking on an ad that promises them the giddy thrill of watching two women and 13 inches of molded latex. My objection, however, is to the casual use of breasts to "attract" me to products that are in no way breast-related on websites that are sex neutral.
I offer this as an example of what I mean:
This ad is often featured on the Yahoo! fantasy baseball site. I understand that this is a "guy" site, but still. Why is it necessary that this young lady have the giant breasts? Are there just enough dumbasses that somehow think that by becoming a product tester that they might have a chance with a "hot" young lady like this? For attention-getting? The offer of a free Mac, her pretty face, none of this is good enough? I need enhanced breasts to be involved before I'll look at your ad.
I am doubly disturbed by sites that have ads for snarky t-shirts that also rely strictly on the large-breasted women advertising their shirts.
Again, why? Am I more likely to notice or buy a shirt because the woman who advertised it was well-endowed? What really unnerves me is the causal nature of the whole thing. I doubt that the website owner demanded large-breasted women. I doubt that the t-shirt manufacturer demanded large-breasted women. Did they specify this at the photo shoot? Whose idea was this that only big boobs would make the cut for the ads.
Obviously, this is tired ground. Just wanted to go on record with my objection.
Boobs.
Boobs.
Boobs.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
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4 comments:
Dave
Don't get me wrong, I loved the post, but, Get with the program! Pick up any marketing 101 book and you will find a "boobs" chapter in every one. Boobs have been selling cars, cat food, and carribean vacations since the begining of time.
Oh, I know. I just think that complaining about big boobs in ads should be Liberalism 101.
dave wasn't denying the effectiveness of the boobs as marketing tool...but that doesn't really make their pervasiveness any less annoying.
Interesting thing about their pervasiveness that bears noting. Unlike other pervasive images (i.e. American Flags, kissing children, smiling old couples, etc.) Big boobs continue to work in generating a response. Love em or hate em, they work for marketers and it's in part the big boob ad dollars that enable us pinko's to use a medium like this to complain about them.
God bless capatalism and big boobs!
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