accidental feminist » ads http://accidentalfeminist.com Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:31:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 look out, mad men: dina’s got your number. http://accidentalfeminist.com/2009/10/27/look-out-mad-men-dinas-got-your-number/ http://accidentalfeminist.com/2009/10/27/look-out-mad-men-dinas-got-your-number/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:09:53 +0000 Rachel http://accidentalfeminist.com/?p=747 At Target, Dina sees a giant hanging sign advertising some of the men’s clothing line there.

Dina: Ooh…they’re hot!

Me: Yes, because they’re models.

Dina: You mean, they’re not real people?

Me: No, they’re real people, but they’re paid to look good in clothing. Why do you think the advertisers would want people to look hot in their ads?

Dina: Why?

Me: So that people will see the ad…

Dina: Oh! And think “I’ll look hot in that!”

Me: But then…

Dina: But then they don’t look hot in it!

Me: Or, at least, they don’t look like the models.

Dina: Ahhh…

(Of course, in her mind, she’s thinking “Yeah, but, I mean, I’d look hot in it…”)

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p.s.- for the more socially conscious…(although I don’t think PETA was planning on making separate “European” and “American” versions of that one; pumpkin licking doesn’t really translate on the other side of the pond).

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