Originally posted by ORCABOMBER@May 17 2004, 12:59 AM
Yo EricB, I just think that it's really saddening that people will play on other's fears and emotions like that....
But that's what advertising has always been about-- creating artifical fears and insecurity, then offering products to make people feel better again.
If you don't use our soap, your neighbor's shirts will be cleaner. That makes you a bad housewife.
If you don't buy this car, the Joneses next door will think you are a failure at your job.
If you don't buy these clothes, your kids will be teased and humiliated in school.
Your natural body odor (nevermind that biology intended it to be sensual) is offensive, so you better buy our deodorant, or else......
If you don't smoke this brand, you're not a man.
If you don't drive this truck...
Etc.
So whay not 'Your dick is a bit too small, and your woman knows, because she's probably already had bigger.'
Actually, as websites targeting male insecurity go, that one isn't too bad.