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Oooh oooh ooh, is THIS 'mansplaining' in action??

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Queen0fFlamingEverything · 18/12/2013 20:07

I post a FB rant (just a small one) about our local independent builders' merchant, who have an advert in todays local rag featuring a semi naked woman and some drills Hmm

Male 'friend' tootles along and tells me "Ah yes but sex sells you know, and there are worse culprits if you really want to be complaining about it".

Indeed there are. Doesn't mean I can't be pissed off that the local trader which I always use instead of Travis Perkins in an effort to be more conscious about where our money goes, has decided to buy into that damaging objectifying shit, does it??

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Queen0fFlamingEverything · 18/12/2013 20:22

Exactly, tribpot!

My 10 yr old DD has just come in and suggested we ring them tomorrow and ask if they are selling naked women now, and if not why have they got one on their advert? I have a feeling she already has a better grip on the matter than the 40 odd year old mansplainer ever will Grin

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Queen0fFlamingEverything · 18/12/2013 20:16

Its not the first time he's come across as a condescending twat on FB now I think about it. I shall have to hide him. He used to seem quite sound until a bitter custody battle with his ex brought out his latent what-about-the-menz tendencies.

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tribpot · 18/12/2013 20:12

I love the 'if you really want to be complaining about it' - like 'obviously this is a matter of such supreme trivia that I can hardly bring my fingers to type about it, but if you have so little to bother your head about that you want to worry about it, well, why don't you, dear?'

And sex sells power tools? To whom? Surely a guy who didn't know anything about them would go for the one that looked the most rugged. A person (male or female) who did know about them would go for the one best suited to the job and budget. And a woman who didn't know anything about them is hardly going to be drawn to the one with the naked woman advertising it. So as well as being stupid, it's also ineffective advertising. If that were the point, which it isn't.

MerryFuckingChristmas · 18/12/2013 20:12

yes, it's a double dibdab

you must be so proud to warrant one of those, they are quite rare Wink

WoTmania · 18/12/2013 20:08

there's also the dismissive 'but there are more important things to worry about' aspect going on there.

MerryFuckingChristmas · 18/12/2013 20:07

< dabs bingo card > Smile

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