Channel surfing today. Saw an ad for vitamins. For teens. More specifically, one version of the vitamin for teen boys: “For healthy muscles!” and another version for teen girls: “For healthy skin!”
Maybe the heat is clogging my brain. But…
…do not girls also need muscles?
…do not boys also need skin?
…does anyone in the year 2009 really think this crap will fly?
Where, oh where, is Don Draper* when you need him?
*Mad Men. MadMenMadMenMadMen. Loooooove Mad Men. This vitamin ad campaign, it needs some Mad Men. There would still be outdated, blatant sex stereotypes—but they would be subtle. They would whisper. Because Don Draper, he understands how to wake the fears and wants of our subconscious in a way that higher brain functions can’t decipher. That is advertising genius. Vitamin people, pay attention. Or, better yet, join us in the 21st century. It’s true—girls have muscles here. But we’re not scary. Much.
P.S. Speaking of stereotypes…the best stereotype-busting, genre-crossing, hilarious irreverence of a book I’ve come across in lo these many months is…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (subtitle: The Classic Regency Romance--Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!)
Just started it last night. First four chapters, snorting and chortling and giggling. And I'm not even a zombie fan.
Full report upon completion.
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Ok, this cements it. I have heard SO much good talk about Mad Men. I now need to start watching it. (This is what happens when you deliberately force cable out of your life - a GOOD show comes on!)
Seasons 1 & 2 available on DVD! We've been catching up. Mad Men isn't everyone's cup of tea--my sweetheart finds it a little too bleak, sometimes--but the writing is superb and it's visually gorgeous.
Don Draper is my homie. And he has great skin. And muscles.
Oh, honey. Muscles and skin indeed. Now there's a man who took his vitamins. :)
Can't wait for the full review!
I've never read a zombie book, but this may be the one for me. I have learned to trust your judgement on such things
Walter, the funny thing about P&P&Z is that when M. was reading it, he kept saying, "Listen to this, this is hilarious..." and then he'd read me a passage that was straight Austen, word-for-word. So far, hers is still the funniest stuff in the book. But I'll let you know how it turns out.
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