Things to do when you are ill

[athena25]

I think that, when left to my own devices and without work to distract me, I revert back to my natural state of Very Angry Feminist.

This is another "gendered food" failure.

Things to do when you are ill No. 47 - Complain to Marks and Spencers

I've been watching a lot of TV. That includes adverts. The current one working it's way up my nose is this

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[mr_h_r_hughes]

Not seen that, it's rather naff. I bet they think the Percy Pigs things is being oh-so-ironic. Maybe I'm reading too much in to it but there is also the 'Ooooh and lifes way to short not to indulge in dessert, hey girls start the diet tomorrow.' ting (OK she only says the first bit but I think te latter part is implied.

[stu_n]

Isn't it 'Life's too short to make your own puff pastry'? Cos I've made my own puff pastry, and she's right.

[athena25]

It is, and she *is* right. Even rough puff pastry is just a bit too much work - I think you need to be making it in industrial quantites, whilst in a giant fridge made of marble, for best results.

However the tone (and there's another one of these ads in which she espouses the woman=chocolate loving freaks) does infer pudding-crazed attitudes.

[mr_h_r_hughes]

I must've misheard, I thought she said 'Lifes too short not to have dessert'...time to listen to things and not the raging monkeys in my head.

[zoecb]

I prefer stern letters with results - wrote to Splenda recently enclosing faulty tablet dispenser and got 2 vouchers for free products! Yay! :-D

[athena25]

Letters are good for physical products, where you have to return an actual thing. Not so much for media - it's quite hard to embed a video link in a letter.

Plus companies are obliged to treat emails with the same priority and seriousness as letters AND it doesn't use up paper, or cost postage.

[zoecb]

What are you after from them - an apology?

[athena25]

I've asked for an official press released apology and to stop airing the ad / or re-dub it in a less bloody stupid fashion.

[chains_of_irony]

PinkStinks is doing a campaign about it http://pinkstinks.wordpress.com/

[athena25]

Yes, I've linked in to them about this.

Must buy some T-shirts / burn some Barbie dolls.

[renniek]

Last night I had dreams about seeing misogynist adverts and sending outraged letters of complaint - I blame you ;-)

Tomorrow, the world!

[athena25]

Ahhh, my Feminazi Dream Machine works!

Moo hoo ha ha!

etc.

[alittlebriton]

...is this the same default feminist side of you that wants to marry a rich man and live off his money, ala Project Charming? *g*

The advert didn't bother me that much, other than being inaccurate. No one buys Percy Pigs because they are pink. They buy them because they taste good. It's like saying I bought that top because it's my favourite colour. No, you didn't. You may have picked it up because of that but you bought it because you thought it looked good on you.

Idiotic communication makes me cranky. Did think the Quentin was looking good though. And I completely missed the bit about meat being for men, but I think I got entranced by the crackling and had to gnaw on my own arm.

[athena25]

that wants to marry a rich man and live off his money, ala Project Charming?

I don't want to, ideally I want to be rich all by myself, but my career path and background appear to preclude that. Plus, I refuse any feminism that doesn't allow for irony or comedy. We won't win friends by being all po-faced.

It doesn't really matter *why* people buy Percy Pigs, that's not really what I'm interested in - it's the message that M&S is putting out that annoys me - that girls like pink silly things and men need manly meat for their manly maleness.

And yes, Quentin did look good in the ads, and she's bob on for the demographic, which is why it's deeply annoying that they have her say such damn fool things.

Also, mmm crackling.

[mr_h_r_hughes]

I'll marry someone rich of either gender as long as I get kept the style to which I'd like to become accustomed.

"Plus, I refuse any feminism that doesn't allow for irony or comedy. We won't win friends by being all po-faced"

Applause to that.