# Dr. Pepper: "We don't serve your kind here." **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364 "2011-10-21T15:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/201 "2011-10-27T19:39:37Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > So, from a practical sense the two or worlds apart. Yeah, but thats not all. The commercial is making fun of the overly macho male stereotype, which generally in society is at least somewhat funny and somewhat acceptable (see Home Improvement for example). Most people at some point do something overly “macho” and if you call em on it, they might laugh, or at least not get overly offended. Now, if you made a commercial where it said at the end “not for black people” you’d most likely be making a commercial where you were making fun of someone for being racist. In that case, you’ll be pissing off both the black people and the potential customers you’ve just been making fun of by calling them racists. Now that might be funny as some sort of youtube parody or comedy show skit but I don’t think it would work well as an actual commercial. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/202 "2011-10-27T19:42:07Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Yeah, but thats not all. The commercial is making fun of the overly macho male stereotype, which generally in society is at least somewhat funny and somewhat acceptable (see Home Improvement for example). Most people at some point do something overly “macho” and if you call em on it, they might laugh, or at least not get overly offended. > > Now, if you made a commercial where it said at the end “not for black people” you’d most likely be making a commercial where you were making fun of someone for being racist. In that case, you’ll be pissing off both the black people and the potential customers you’ve just been making fun of by calling them racists. > > Now that might be funny as some sort of youtube parody or comedy show skit but I don’t think it would work well as an actual commercial. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/203 "2011-10-27T22:10:09Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Now go light a candle, open a bottle of Chardonnay, fluff up your pillows, call some similarly minded dumb girlfriends over and have yourselves a good cry. Boo-fucking-hoo. Wow. See I thought that the Dope was about people getting together and discussing and debating topics large and small but apparently it’s just a place where people can be rude behind the veil of a screen name. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/204 "2011-10-27T22:28:53Z")
> [@Aeris](#): > > Wow. See I thought that the Dope was about people getting together and discussing and debating topics large and small but apparently it’s just a place where people can be rude behind the veil of a screen name. Well, yeah. This is the Pit. Check the forum description before you wade in. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/205 "2011-10-27T23:32:43Z")
> [@Aeris](#): > > Wow. See I thought that the Dope was about people getting together and discussing and debating topics large and small but apparently it’s just a place where people can be rude behind the veil of a screen name. New here, ain’t cha? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/206 "2011-10-27T23:44:38Z")
This is… _ **The Pit** _ Where every loathsome and obnoxious demon goes to feed. Expecting civil discourse in this forum? Next thing you’ll be saying you’ve been invited to go hunting with Dick Cheney and you’re really looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/207 "2011-10-28T01:52:13Z")
> [@Aeris](#): > > Wow. See I thought that the Dope was about people getting together and discussing and debating topics large and small but apparently it’s just a place where people can be rude behind the veil of a screen name. What **Bosstone** said is true. Having said that, I don’t agree with your stance, but I apologize if I’ve insulted you. It was kind of my intent, but I was attacking your ideas, not you personally. And yes, we can choose to be civil when we disagree. I’m sorry if I’ve hurt you. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/208 "2011-10-28T15:51:24Z")
Oh, please. If she can’t handle people telling her the stick up her ass is pressing on her logic center, she shouldn’t be playing in The Pit, even as emasculated as it is these days. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/209 "2011-10-28T16:05:03Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Having said that, I don’t agree with your stance, but I apologize if I’ve insulted you. It was kind of my intent, but I was attacking your ideas, not you personally. > > And yes, we can choose to be civil when we disagree. I’m sorry if I’ve hurt you. Dude, she’s not letting you into her pants. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/210 "2011-10-28T17:02:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > “Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.” > > One of the students, who is a bit of a case, piped up “That’s so sexist! Women have to eat too! Why is it always men men men!” Ok, Ok. Give a woman a fish, and she complains about having to do all the damn cooking around here. Teach a woman to fish, and she makes you bait the hook because worms are gross. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/211 "2011-10-28T17:28:07Z")
I’m not _that_ loathsome. ---
**Author:** ![wellanuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/212 "2011-10-28T21:33:42Z")
> [@smaje1](#): > > The website for Carter’s (children’s clothing) has baby-sized Halloween costumes split into girls and boys. Under the Boys section, you can buy a puppy costume. But there’s no puppy costume under the Girls section – there’s a kitty, though! A boy has to be a puppy and a girl has to be a kitty? In fact, it bothered me so much that I jotted off a quick email to Carters about it. Why does it bother you, though? Obviously, Carter’s already knows that there are just not many people who want to teach their sons to be pussies, and their daughters to be bitches. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/213 "2011-10-28T22:36:05Z")
_rimshot_ ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364/214 "2011-10-30T15:46:13Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Perhaps you’ve seen [the ads for Dr. Pepper TEN](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTs-BmLOGWQ)\*? Apparently they think my wife is too weak to handle a ten-calorie drink. It’s just got so much flavor potential that the fairer sex just can’t take it. They only want men- REAL MEN- drinking this soda because it’s too dangerous for anyone else. I shake my head at the the weak-man advertising for fabric softeners, cereals, and other household products, so I’d be a hypocrite to not do the same with this ad. > > My wife and I wrote a complaint to the company. They sent this response: > Ah! I see the light now, Ms. Relations! I didn’t realize that when you were ostensibly insulting women, you were actually being ironic and insulting “manly” men. I see now that you were merely baiting women into buying your product with masterful reverse psychology. Genius! > > Maybe when I open my auto parts store, being the manly man I am, I’ll hang a shingle that says “Chessic’s Auto Repair - It’s not for blacks.” and then I’ll be swamped with customers of all races, each going “I’ll be the judge of that”! What could go wrong? I’ll just sit in the back, watching the money come in, sipping my Dr. Pepper Ten and trying not to let anyone see me worrying about my waistline. > > Fuck you, Dr. Pepper. I hope all your commercials get replaced with the Tide detergent commercials with the laundry-folding, ponytail-tying father. “Hewwingboune”- hehe, so cute. > > \*Read the URL, people I wish I had your life, you obviously haven’t got anything real to worry about. And you actually wrote to the company about it ! If my self esteem was that low I’d be writing to god knows how many companies whos Ads portray the wife as the brains of the household, while dad is a bumbling idiot; both physicaly and mentally; who is loved but laughed at by the kids. Lighten up, you seem to have far to much time on your hands, time which could be used a lot more usefully both for yourself and those worse off then yourself. Still I expect that you gave Dr.Peppers staff a few laughs around the office. So maybe it wasn’t all wasted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-pepper-we-dont-serve-your-kind-here/600364.md?page=10)