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Is Dr. Pepper still trying that "For Men Only" thing? (Original Post) chrisa Mar 2012 OP
I like the screaming pig. This was just sexist. Taverner Mar 2012 #1
That screaming pig is so annoying. chrisa Mar 2012 #2
I wish they would drown the pig in a bucket of shit Major Nikon Mar 2012 #10
y'know I hafta agree with ya Spock_is_Skeptical Mar 2012 #19
How is advertising Dr. Pepper Ten with the slogan "It's not for women!" not sexist? Chan790 Mar 2012 #11
I agree chrisa Mar 2012 #13
Sexist? Really? sakabatou Mar 2012 #3
I wonder too... pipi_k Mar 2012 #8
I was gobsmacked when I heard that Rambis Mar 2012 #4
my hubby and i were having an argument. selling to men i told him. and had to have 10 cal seabeyond Mar 2012 #5
Never saw any of the ads. Justice wanted Mar 2012 #6
Here ya go Tabasco_Dave Mar 2012 #12
Ahhh!!! Burn it with fire! chrisa Mar 2012 #14
I try not to drink soda... Neoma Mar 2012 #7
I like the pig, but agree with the FMO thing siligut Mar 2012 #9
sexist? it's totally tongue-in-cheek... KG Mar 2012 #15
I hate that commercial nickinSTL Mar 2012 #16
Ten years ago, I traveled in Europe, mikeSchmuckabee Mar 2012 #17
The Yorkie bar? I've seen that in the foreign food aisle at my grocery store fishwax Mar 2012 #18

chrisa

(4,524 posts)
2. That screaming pig is so annoying.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:19 PM
Mar 2012

Last edited Thu Mar 29, 2012, 09:49 PM - Edit history (1)

lol How is this sexist? I was just asking because I hate those commercials. They're so cheesy.

Scratching my head on this one.

Edited hours after: My initial impression was that this poster was calling my post sexist. Is she or he actually calling the commercial itself sexist? I disagree with both opinions, though.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
10. I wish they would drown the pig in a bucket of shit
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:16 PM
Mar 2012

That's how much I hate the pig commercials. I don't have any use for Geico anyway.

Spock_is_Skeptical

(1,491 posts)
19. y'know I hafta agree with ya
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 12:13 AM
Mar 2012

and I am a vegetarian, tree-hugging PETA supporter.

I hate that stupid commercial!

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
11. How is advertising Dr. Pepper Ten with the slogan "It's not for women!" not sexist?
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:19 PM
Mar 2012

Beyond that, the commercials are dumb and sexist, full of crap like inferring that women can't understand action movies.

chrisa

(4,524 posts)
13. I agree
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 06:16 PM
Mar 2012

They were (are?) more dumb than anything, though. I hate them because they're so out of place - Dr. Pepper isn't even a "men's" drink, which is why it was pretty stupid. I like to laugh at stupid, failed advertisements that try to appeal to a market but fail badly at it.

Rambis

(7,774 posts)
4. I was gobsmacked when I heard that
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:38 PM
Mar 2012

nothing like halving your audience in a most insulting way. Another one that i noticed in a car commercial was something like "small women like to have powerful cars"

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
5. my hubby and i were having an argument. selling to men i told him. and had to have 10 cal
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:45 PM
Mar 2012

cause men wont drink diet (so the co says, though men i know drink diet). no he says, selling to women. we went back and forth until he saw the commercial again and saw at the end saying for men only....

he says.... BUT, the only people i see drinking the drp 10 are women.

he fixes computers and he says he sees it on womens desk all the time.

moral of story

put out a manly man and the women will buy and the men will run away.

or not

i am playing.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
9. I like the pig, but agree with the FMO thing
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:14 PM
Mar 2012

Do they think we are that gullible? I could only believe the ad-men wanted to make it seem like forbidden fruit.

For a while, there was an ad for buying home foreclosures and you could only call that day if your name started with an A-L, geesh, but even worse, they would play the same ad the next day.

nickinSTL

(4,833 posts)
16. I hate that commercial
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 10:14 PM
Mar 2012

Didn't Pepsi try a similar tactic with Pepsi Max?

I don't remember the commercials, so I don't know if they were less annoying, but I seem to recall they were trying to market that to men as well.

mikeSchmuckabee

(349 posts)
17. Ten years ago, I traveled in Europe,
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 11:27 PM
Mar 2012

and there was an ad in England for something that was "not for girls" and an ad in Germany for a Nestle's chocolate bar that was "nicht fur frauen". I thought it so odd, I had to keep the wrapper as a souvenir. The was TEN YEARS AGO! Has it run it's course there and now is invading the land of the crass and home of the depraved?

fishwax

(29,149 posts)
18. The Yorkie bar? I've seen that in the foreign food aisle at my grocery store
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 11:32 PM
Mar 2012

fairly recently, so I guess it's still their slogan:



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