I'd briefly considered trying the same with Jessica Alba, but realised no one would buy it.I think that's a given.
Watch, the kid will post a celebrity pic and be like "see, I get hot chicks too!"
*sigh*
I'm simply saying: if it will sell a product - then corporations will use it.
One of the most common techniques tobacco companies employ in order to target women is women's liberation. Specifically, these advertisements show a woman in a position of power over a man, while being careful to keep the power-play light, carefree, and a bit flirtatious. The ads are prudent, hoping not to offend anyone while appearing to "take sides," so to speak, with women. Often, these ads distract from the position of power Big Tobacco itself holds over both sexes, by pitting women against men instead of against Big Tobacco.
Ok. But it is rather interesting that, in the example I presented, the tobacco company was not initially interested in women's rights. They were merely trying to get women to smoke so that they could increase their sales. They asked Bernays to find a way to do it, and he conceived of the notion of associating women smoking with the liberation of women. It's of especially of interest because in the name of women's freedom, women are encouraged to become a slave to the dangerous habit of smoking cigarettes.
Yes - that's how brutal, big-time marketing is done. Exactly like that. It's dirty business, but that's how they do it. No denial here - that's exactly what they do.
Remember the movie Wayne's World? "Purchase feeble public access cable show and exploit it" - - - That's the guts of brutal marketing.
Sure, companies would like for us to know they care about us. But they don't. Most don't, anyway, some do. Some wouldn't exploit people's weaknesses (or strengths) or inner desires. However, most would and *do* - often - with great success.
Small businesses are the ones who risk public lashback and can never do such things. However, corporate giants such as tobacco companies don't have to worry about critics lashing out with negative impacts on sales. Odds are: they'll just exploit any negativity and still fatten their pockets.
Absolutely. It's very cruel IMO.
In business it's classified as 'clever marketing skills' and so forth.
And of course: marketing isn't just for corporations - politicians do it, too, quite a bit. People just don't like to admit that.
That the rise and fall of Second-Wave feminism is extant in late-20th century slim cigarette advertising suggests that smoking had become, to many, culturally synonymous with female liberation—and its disappearance from these ads showcased the apolitical attitudes of a new generation of American women.
We're easier to manage, cheaper and are wiling to put up with a lot of crap?
LOL
Sure, whatever.
Think we're gonna see 24107's girlfriend?
*snicker*
No because she's hideous.
Whose girlfriend were you wanting to touch?lulz
I'm not touching that one.
When someone says whatever it means that they go along with what you are saying.
Why do nearly one-fifth of women in America smoke? The answer goes back to an event almost 80 years ago on Fifth Avenue, which is often regarded as one of the most successful P.R. stunts in American history.
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But the tobacco companies wanted to change this view. “The industry understood that they were half of humanity,” Dr. Jackler said.
So in 1928, Edward Bernays, often considered the father of modern public relations, was retained by American Tobacco Company to help get women to smoke.
Recognizing that women were still riding high on the suffrage movement, Mr. Bernays used the equality angle as the basis for his new campaign. He convinced a number of genteel women, including his own secretary, to march in the 1929 Easter Day parade down Fifth Avenue and light up cigarettes in a defiant show of their liberation.
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Dr. Jackler said his mother came of age influenced by the ads. She started smoking in college in the 1940s at the University of Vermont. Her cancer had prompted his interest in that era of tobacco marketing. (Now, more women die of lung cancer than from breast cancer.)
“She thought it would be smart and sassy thing to smoke,” Dr. Jackler said. “She thought it would make her elegant and mature and sophisticated.”
Documents from the files of the tobacco companies, released in 1998, indicated they had studied female smoking habits through research projects with names like “Tomorrow’s Female,” “Cosmo” and “Virile Female.” Marketing cigarettes for women continued with the introduction of Virginia Slims in 1968, which for decades used the theme “You’ve come a long way, baby” as an allusion to the feminist movement.
“There is a bump in women’s smoking in the 1970s,” Dr. Jackler said.
That increase has shown up now, he added, as more cases of “lung cancer and emphysema, because they started smoking in the ’70s because of the Virginia Slim ads.”
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To expand the number of women smokers Hill decided to hire Edward Bernays, who today is known as the father of public relations, to help him recruit women smokers. Bernays decided to attempt to eliminate the social taboo of women smoking in public. He gained advice from psychoanalyst A. A. Brill stated that it was normal for women to smoke because of oral fixation and said, “Today the emancipation of women has suppressed many of their feminine desires. More women now do the same work as men do. Many women bear no children; those who do bear have fewer children. Feminine traits are masked. Cigarettes, which are equated with men, become torches of freedom.” In 1929 Bernays decided to pay women to smoke their “torches of freedom” as they walked in the Easter Sunday Parade in New York. This was a shock because until that time, women were only permitted to smoke in certain places such as in the privacy of their own homes. He was very careful when picking women to march because “while they should be good looking, they should not look too model-y” and he hired his own photographers to make sure that good pictures were taken and then published around the world. Feminist Ruth Hale also called for women to join in the march saying, “Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!”
Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, a World Health Organization (WHO) report has claimed.
The industry is also making inaccurate health claims that certain cigarettes are “light” or “mild,” according to the WHO's report. In some countries the tobacco companies are sponsoring beauty pageants, sports and arts events, and even women's organisations to influence young women to use tobacco.
A WHO spokesperson said that Ligget-Ducat, one of Russia's largest cigarette manufacturers and which is now owned by Gallagher, has recently sponsored a “La Femme Woman of the Year” competition to promote its “La Femme” brand. The competition was to find the woman who had made the greatest lifetime achievement to Russian society, and it was won by 65 year old actress Lyudima Gurchenko. And in the United States, cigarette manufacturers Philip Morris and R J Reynolds have provided sponsorship for various women's organisations, including the National Women's Political Caucus and the Center for Women Policy Studies.
Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda, was famous for his Torches of Freedom march. Basically, Bernays was hired by the big tobacco companies to get women to smoke so the companies could increase their profits by selling women cigarettes. To accomplish this, Bernays got prominent women, who were involved in the campaign for women's rights, to organize a giant march ofas a symbol of their freedom.women cigarettes,
The Museum of Public Relations
It appears that the rise in feminism can be traced to the desire by corporations to exploit women for profit.
So the question is, have feminists been used by corporations to exploit women to increase corporate profit?
Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda, was famous for his Torches of Freedom march. Basically, Bernays was hired by the big tobacco companies to get women to smoke so the companies could increase their profits by selling women cigarettes. To accomplish this, Bernays got prominent women, who were involved in the campaign for women's rights, to organize a giant march of women cigarettes, as a symbol of their freedom.
The Museum of Public Relations
It appears that the rise in feminism can be traced to the desire by corporations to exploit women for profit.
So the question is,have feminists been used by corporations to exploit women to increase corporate profit?
What are 'women cigarettes'?
Has any group of people ever been taken advantage of by any other group of people for any reason?
It appears that the rise in feminism can be traced to the desire by corporations to exploit women for profit.
So the question is, have feminists been used by corporations to exploit women to increase corporate profit?
Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda, was famous for his Torches of Freedom march. Basically, Bernays was hired by the big tobacco companies to get women to smoke so the companies could increase their profits by selling women cigarettes. To accomplish this, Bernays got prominent women, who were involved in the campaign for women's rights, to organize a giant march of women cigarettes, as a symbol of their freedom.
The Museum of Public Relations
It appears that the rise in feminism can be traced to the desire by corporations to exploit women for profit.
So the question is, have feminists been used by corporations to exploit women to increase corporate profit?
From what you've posted the move for women to be treated equal started first. Companies co-op movements or views to sell their products. Believe me I vomit in my mouth everytime I see a company use soldiers to sell their products. They didn't create the publics goodwill for people that serve but they sure as hell want to cash in on it.
How can the women reaction against corporate exploitation of women (i.e., feminism) be itself used to increase corporate profit nevertheless?
It is like women were being exploited for profit from corporates thus feminism came. Now feminism too is being exploited for profit? Either feminists are not serving their purpose then or they do not seem capable to.
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