[stevehawk]

> We did okay for hundreds of thousands of years. Did Big Advertising get the best of us and make us needlessly devote expenses and energy?

ever since my wife was pregnant i've actually started paying attention to the advertising targeted at women. Holy shit, I feel so bad for them. It's easy for me to laugh at and ignore the "if you buy (this product) then this sexy woman will be attracted to you" ads (spoiler: she won't). But their advertising is very much "you should feel bad about yourself for not buying this, because it means you don't love your (self |child |pet |whatever." It really tugs at emotions and capitalizes on insecurities.

And they do it to themselves a lot of the times, it's not just the big companies doing it, it's female influencers trying to maximize their referrals/sales.

[rustyhancock]

The vast majority of advertising is laser focused to push women's buttons it's alarming.

Interestingly, I was at the cinema and saw back to back adverts for monitoring where a woman is all the time is coercive control and abuse.

Then an app for a mum to monitor where their adult daughter is at all times as a positive.[1]

Both are abuse AFAIC and that helicopter parenting is encroaching on adulthood is alarming. In sure we'll soon have diaper sizes newborn through 25 years old eventually.

[1] https://youtu.be/37w6DeEUbVg?is=lOnp2PhSYzydkK51

[wizzwizz4]

Speaking of monitoring, your YouTube link has a tracking identifier in it… although it's ?is=, for some reason. Did you type that out manually, or has YouTube changed?

[rustyhancock]

Id not noticed but can't edit it now!

[darajava]

that’s one of the most horrific ads i’ve ever seen. I wonder if an ad like that is allowed outside america?

[rustyhancock]

I'm in Europe!

[bombcar]

The No New Things book (written by a woman!) pointed out that women are the primary purchase decision-maker 78 percent of the time!

The vast majority of marketing is aimed at women, and it gets pretty disgusting pretty quick.