Comments on: Commercials For Social Change Part 1 http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/ Sundrip Journals Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Julie http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/#comment-2402 Julie Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:04:00 +0000 http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/#comment-2402 Those "Bob" commercials are simply hysterical. However, if I were a guy, I wouldn't even consider a product that, by commerical, would make me feel so plastic. I also get a charge out of those "Gotta Go, Gotta Go" commericals. All those commericals always end up with "Ask Your Doctor". Another form of mass selling. They try to entice folks with their product, when it should be the doctors tha they want to impress. My doctor prescribes medicines with my chart in front of him. Those “Bob” commercials are simply hysterical. However, if I were a guy, I wouldn’t even consider a product that, by commerical, would make me feel so plastic.

I also get a charge out of those “Gotta Go, Gotta Go” commericals. All those commericals always end up with “Ask Your Doctor”. Another form of mass selling. They try to entice folks with their product, when it should be the doctors tha they want to impress. My doctor prescribes medicines with my chart in front of him.

]]> By: cheesemeister http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/#comment-2397 cheesemeister Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:23:51 +0000 http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/#comment-2397 A lot of people hate the "Bob" commercials but I actually find most of them funny even though they are overt. The ones I don't like are the ones for a product called "Maxoderm" where these older guys are with women who are old enough to be their daughters. That one gets under my skin. A lot of people hate the “Bob” commercials but I actually find most of them funny even though they are overt. The ones I don’t like are the ones for a product called “Maxoderm” where these older guys are with women who are old enough to be their daughters. That one gets under my skin.

]]> By: eeabee http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/#comment-2382 eeabee Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:57:24 +0000 http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2008/01/01/social-change/#comment-2382 Interesting discussion. I haven't seen the most recent ads, but I am also bothered by how health ads uses gender imagery. What bugs me is that the phallic imagery is presented as this positive potency thing and the female imagery--well it's not really represented exactly, too shocking I guess, only in flower symbolic form sometimes--the female body is shown as the big source of icky problems that need to be mopped up and cleansed. Why is the female body so much more of a project? This kind of thing drives me crazy! Thanks for raising the topic. Interesting discussion. I haven’t seen the most recent ads, but I am also bothered by how health ads uses gender imagery. What bugs me is that the phallic imagery is presented as this positive potency thing and the female imagery–well it’s not really represented exactly, too shocking I guess, only in flower symbolic form sometimes–the female body is shown as the big source of icky problems that need to be mopped up and cleansed. Why is the female body so much more of a project? This kind of thing drives me crazy! Thanks for raising the topic.

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