Halloween Meme

Stolen from tarlanx

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door'. Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and you will get a surprise in your 'bag'. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy. The more "houses" to visit the more fun it'll be, so go ahead, open your journal and help spread the fun!

My treat is: funny pictures, snippets of fic, delicious recipes.
My trick is: a surprise, otherwise it wouldn't be a trick, would it?

It's Not For Women

Clearly I need to stop watching Die Hard re-runs at Christmas (what? It's a Christmas movie!) and start investing in weepy Lifetime movies. I suppose this is meant to be an over-exaggerated piece of absurdity, as seen in previous successful commercials such as the Old Spice man and The Most Interesting Man in the World pieces. But Dr. Pepper has managed to mangle it and instead make an incredibly polarising commercial with dubious humour. I'm the first one to step up and laugh at blatantly sexist jokes, because I'm not one to take everything seriously, and I know that it's said tongue-in-cheek. This commercial, however, left me baffled.

I understand that they are trying to market a 'diet' soda to men, and diet is usually marketed to women, so they have to make the drink sound 'manly.' (Do men really get teased for drinking diet soda? I've...never come across this issue. Anyone who gives a damn about trivial things like what you're drinking should be punched straight away) But while diet drinks for women don't blatantly say, "Men, this is not for you," Dr. Pepper's Ten ad tells women exactly that. Therein lies the issue, at least for me. In all fairness, I think the 'stupid husband' gags in commercials marketed for women deserve the same scorn.

Okay, the real issue for me is that apparently women who try to enter the Dr. Pepper Ten page on Facebook are blocked and told that it's "Not For Women." Because, WHOA, really? (Maybe they changed this after complaints, because I was able to get in) That's actually cutting down your consumer base. Jim Trebilcock, executive vice president of marketing for Dr Pepper, says that 'women will get the joke,' but the Facebook thing goes way beyond a joke. What the hell?