Comments on: Standing Up For The Little Guy http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: meow http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html/comment-page-1#comment-12077 meow Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:46:33 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html#comment-12077 Aren't any man-attacks balanced and then some by the incessant casting of the hot girl with the schlub/ad guy stand in, American Apparel, Girls Gone Wild, Axe & friends, Crispin style fratvertising... I could go on but someone might accuse me of PMS. Aren’t any man-attacks balanced and then some by the incessant casting of the hot girl with the schlub/ad guy stand in, American Apparel, Girls Gone Wild, Axe & friends, Crispin style fratvertising… I could go on but someone might accuse me of PMS.

]]> By: s.ryan http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html/comment-page-1#comment-11990 s.ryan Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:28:05 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html#comment-11990 Worked in ireland for 5 years and was amazed how the whole male bashing thing permeated everyday life. Women complaining about men,in the workplace, at home you name it. Funny thing thing is the arguement could be that women (mothers) are to blame for not raising productive members of society who can't cook clean etc because they had it all done for them.Some of the ads are laughable especially for men who are not the stereotype. The thing is though with increasing independence and expressed freedom of women, the decreasing dependence on men, and the bashing messages I.e. The messages that both young men and women get through the media could there be any correlation to the number one cause of death amongst young men being suicide? Does advertising add fuel to the fire? Just a thought to stimulate discussion. Worked in ireland for 5 years and was amazed how the whole male bashing thing permeated everyday life. Women complaining about men,in the workplace, at home you name it. Funny thing thing is the arguement could be that women (mothers) are to blame for not raising productive members of society who can’t cook clean etc because they had it all done for them.Some of the ads are laughable especially for men who are not the stereotype. The thing is though with increasing independence and expressed freedom of women, the decreasing dependence on men, and the bashing messages I.e. The messages that both young men and women get through the media could there be any correlation to the number one cause of death amongst young men being suicide? Does advertising add fuel to the fire? Just a thought to stimulate discussion.

]]> By: Rick Julian http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html/comment-page-1#comment-11970 Rick Julian Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:24:43 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/standing-up-for-the-little-guy.html#comment-11970 Something tells me the Man™ brand positioning is, at the moment, banging the wall as the pendulum swings. Note the pain is typically inflicted on middle-class caucasian men, and what probably began as some karmic retribution for our perceived ills has now turned into stereotypical fodder for slapstick yucks. This theme feels like its about 10 years old, and hopefully will have run its course into oblivion soon–not because we white men don't deserve more horse beating, but because it's just getting so damned stale it's hard to laugh about it anymore. Something tells me the Man™ brand positioning is, at the moment, banging the wall as the pendulum swings. Note the pain is typically inflicted on middle-class caucasian men, and what probably began as some karmic retribution for our perceived ills has now turned into stereotypical fodder for slapstick yucks.

This theme feels like its about 10 years old, and hopefully will have run its course into oblivion soon–not because we white men don’t deserve more horse beating, but because it’s just getting so damned stale it’s hard to laugh about it anymore.

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