when ghosts of the past surface
they serve no purpose but to unsettle the dust
disrupt the tangled web we so carefully weaved
till we numb ourselves to once again believe the make-believe!
this post doesn't really have any personal reference or significant meaning...i don't have any particularly nasty skeleton to hide in my closet...however, a recent comment from a friend got me thinking..over time some people really do start believing the lies they told to be the actual truth!
PS - in case ur wondering if i lifted the 4 lines from anywhere...i didn't! it all just sorta came to me as i was laying in bed, trying to sleep...im clever like that ;)
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Bizarre and Senseless!
This is not the feminist in me protesting! This is the sensible person in me putting my hand up and asking wat is up with the promoters of Whisper (sanitary napkins for the uninitiated and blissfully ignorant souls)! Me thinks they should fire their advertising agency...
Enough has been said about the whole "Have a happy period" tag line. As easy as it is to abuse the crap out of the person who came up with that (no doubt a guy)...my grudges are a bit more basic...
It all started with the horrendous ad where this annoyingly happy girl (obviously dressed in white) walks by a guy who can smell her period...so "odour control" was the marketing gimmick....though i cringed every time i saw it...i was silent!
Then about 5 - 6 months ago...they started showcasing their pads decorated as flowers..each pad forming a petal of the flower! As sad as I thought it was...I still didn't object...
But the recent ads really take the cake...wherein a couple of pads are walking along masquerading as sandals, stepping into a "puddle" and being super absorbent!
Is it me or are these ads not bizarre?? Am I over-reacting???Do these ads not qualify for a WTF moment???
Lets think out of the box for a moment here..as I'm sure the people who came up with these ads thought they were doing when they came up with such shit...Lets say, God decided to one day reverse roles...and decided to gift men a monthly visit from Aunty Flow (come on men..it's not that bad...think of what all you can get away with in the name of PMS :)
Assuming all the plumbing apparatus for the guys remains the same...the good folks at P&G come up with some suitable measures to help men cope with the ordeal..be it in the form of XL Wings, easy disposable, odour control, ball-ed comfort etc etc...
Would men cringe from disgust if ads of their sanitary napkins are paraded around as snakes slithering away, or hose pipes putting out a fire! (Ladies, got any more "creative" ideas???)
While I genuinely do consider sanitary napkins to be somethin close to the best discovery since sliced bread, all I ask is that they be advertised in a more suitable manner rather than flowers and footwear and anythin else pseudo-ly "girly" -
It truly is bizarre and senseless!
Enough has been said about the whole "Have a happy period" tag line. As easy as it is to abuse the crap out of the person who came up with that (no doubt a guy)...my grudges are a bit more basic...
It all started with the horrendous ad where this annoyingly happy girl (obviously dressed in white) walks by a guy who can smell her period...so "odour control" was the marketing gimmick....though i cringed every time i saw it...i was silent!
Then about 5 - 6 months ago...they started showcasing their pads decorated as flowers..each pad forming a petal of the flower! As sad as I thought it was...I still didn't object...
But the recent ads really take the cake...wherein a couple of pads are walking along masquerading as sandals, stepping into a "puddle" and being super absorbent!
Is it me or are these ads not bizarre?? Am I over-reacting???Do these ads not qualify for a WTF moment???
Lets think out of the box for a moment here..as I'm sure the people who came up with these ads thought they were doing when they came up with such shit...Lets say, God decided to one day reverse roles...and decided to gift men a monthly visit from Aunty Flow (come on men..it's not that bad...think of what all you can get away with in the name of PMS :)
Assuming all the plumbing apparatus for the guys remains the same...the good folks at P&G come up with some suitable measures to help men cope with the ordeal..be it in the form of XL Wings, easy disposable, odour control, ball-ed comfort etc etc...
Would men cringe from disgust if ads of their sanitary napkins are paraded around as snakes slithering away, or hose pipes putting out a fire! (Ladies, got any more "creative" ideas???)
While I genuinely do consider sanitary napkins to be somethin close to the best discovery since sliced bread, all I ask is that they be advertised in a more suitable manner rather than flowers and footwear and anythin else pseudo-ly "girly" -
It truly is bizarre and senseless!
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