This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Violet: I removed
- Many men's cologne ads portray women as interested in sex purely as a side effect of the cologne. Since Hai Karate did it in the 1960s, by TV standards, this makes this approach one of The Oldest Ones In The Book.
- One Axe ad has women cuddling and snuggling appliances and pots and pans and plumbing...before the revelation that the guy using Axe tosses the empty cans into recycling.
- And don't forget the one that has the women in sequentially-higher apartments pole-dancing around and straight-out humping a pipe... which we finally see is draining from the shower of a man using Axe Body Wash.
- One Axe ad has women cuddling and snuggling appliances and pots and pans and plumbing...before the revelation that the guy using Axe tosses the empty cans into recycling.
from adversions and created a similar one as being a straight example under men, since these products target men they should be judged against the tropes for adverts targeted at men not the ones for adverts targeted at women. On that criteria they're definitely match:
- Unless it's a body care product, then they're utter studs.
- Be totally obsessed with sex (certainly that's what the advertisers are hoping their audience is like)
Tails: KFC has an ad in similar territory, in which a group of guys going on about the new Extra Crispy recipe as "A Man's Chicken". Of course looking over to a little girl eating it. I'm not sure wether it would classify as an inversion or a parody.
Rhomega: Shouldn't this trope be called Women Are From Candy Bars Men Are From Shaving Products?
Sand Josieph: I wonder where this
commercial falls.
I moved the Heineken ad from Subversions to Parodies, as it doesn't subvert the clichés at all, but exaggerates them. See discussion here.
