Dr. Pepper: "We don't serve your kind here."

[VinylTurnip]

@DiosaBellissima

Well, I guess I’ll be the shrill harpy: after I heard about this weeks ago (and read a bit about it), I decided that I wont be buying Dr. Pepper anymore. At least until they pull this buffoonery and apologize for it.

And it’s funny that they’re saying that this is just some sort of reverse psychology ploy to get women to want their drink. If that’s so, then why do they have a Facebook page that is coded to block all female users? If it’s reverse psychology and they want us to drink it, you’d think they’d want us to people to “like” their product and share our fondness. :rolleyes:

I’m pretty sure this is a joke thread, so I guess you and the OP are a comedy duo?

[Freudian_Slit]

@VinylTurnip

I’m pretty sure this is a joke thread, so I guess you and the OP are a comedy duo?

There were people who thought this yogurt ad was offensive because it promoted anorexia. Relatively this Dr. Pepper outrage is nothing.

[stpauler]

Personally, I’ve stopped wearing bras until they unisexually market them.

[tdn]

@stpauler

Personally, I’ve stopped wearing bras until they unisexually market them.

I’m going to be continually outraged until they start making tampons for men. Hey, I want to be able to swim and ride a bike too!

[Two_Many_Cats]

You mean my half-brother down in Georgia who’s been drinking diet Dr Pepper for about ten years now was all the time a squealing prancing she-male closet case? Huh. Won’t his wife and kids be surprised.

[Spice_Weasel]

@Freudian_Slit

There were people who thought this yogurt ad was offensive because it promoted anorexia. Relatively this Dr. Pepper outrage is nothing.

Wow, that was… the opposite of in any way offensive. Hell, if anything that ad promotes making healthier lifestyle choices instead of getting caught in the craving/binge cycle.

As for Dr. Pepper, I’m underwhelmed by either outrage or amusement. I’ve noticed a lot of ads are starting to satirize gender norms (like the goofy Old Spice ads) and I kinda like it. It’s downright fucking weird they would block women from their Facebook site, though. That does ruffle my feathers a bit, because it seems to be genuinely predicated on the notion that men won’t drink something women like.

[Sigmagirl]

If they had made the ads over-the-top “macho,” like the Dairy Queen campaign that goes something like “We don’t just make awesome milkshakes; we make bubbles with fluffy kittens in them,” it could have succeeded. Some beefcake lumberjack* drinking Dr Pepper TEN and beseiged with hot babes who want to steal his diet soda. It could work like the Most Interesting Man in the World or the Old Spice Guy. Instead it’s just insulting.

*He’s OK.

[miss_elizabeth]

This ad is blatantly sexist. It isn’t hidden. There is no subtext. On the facebook page they have a game where you can shoot “girly” things. Sexism isn’t funny or cute to me. It’s a real thing that hurts people. What the fuck, people?

[Red_Barchetta]

@miss_elizabeth

This ad is blatantly sexist.

How did this ad hurt you, exactly? Where did it touch you?

[billfish678]

I say let the wymen and girlie men with their panties in a bunch go back to drinking that fucking nasty ass distilled skank crap known as TAB. That will serve them right and leave more of the halfway drinkable diet crap for us folks with slighter thicker skins.

[Sitnam]

@Hyperelastic

It must be a backlash, decades in coming, against the canonical Dopey Daddy or Retarded Husband characters in commercials. One I hate is the commercial that says it’s unmanly to drink light beers that don’t taste good. The funny thing is that the “chump” in the commercial is the only person in the whole commercial who has any sense.

No shit, getting hassled for picking the wrong light beer is like getting shit for not drinking a name brand bottled water.

[billfish678]

@olivesmarch4th

h. That does ruffle my feathers a bit, because it seems to be genuinely predicated on the notion that men won’t drink something women like.

Many men won’t suck on something plenty of women will, so the notion is not without merit.

[Sea_Creature_Turner]

@Chessic_Sense

Perhaps you’ve seen the ads for Dr. Pepper TEN*? 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

Might I suggest getting a hobby?

[randomface]

If you are drinking light beer, you are doing it wrong anyway.

[GrandWino]

@randomface

If you are drinking light beer, you are doing it wrong anyway.

Also, if you spend your time writing angry letters to soft drink companies.

[Kimmy_Gibbler]

@Enderw24

Dear Chessic Sense,

As our ad clearly states, Dr. Pepper Ten is only for men. You are clearly not fit to drink our product as evidenced by your letter which makes you sound like a pussy.

It may interest you to know that an alternative use for Dr. Pepper Ten is to pour it over your crotch in order to wash the sand out of your vagina. Our market research shows that while it does burn, it is well within the “hurts so good” range. Keep on truckin’

Sincerely,

Consumer Relations

@tdn

I don’t think you do.

How ironic is it that that reasonable letter has got your panties even more in a bunch?

Haw haw haw, I get the joke! Vaginas … panties … it’s funny because you’re calling him a woman. And we kind of hate women!

[QUOTE=billfish678]
Many men won’t suck on something plenty of women will, so the notion is not without merit.
[/QUOTE]

Haw haw haw! Sexual intercourse inherently degrades women. Or is that “bitches” and “sluts”?

[Inigo_Montoya]

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

Must . . . resist . . . urge . . . to Godwinize . . .

What? I’ll do it:

“You know who else didn’t like Dr Pepper?”

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

billfish’s law: no thread’s premise is so inconsequential that the responses to it can’t make it seem like it deserves a Nobel prize in comparison.

[fluiddruid]

@Kimmy_Gibbler

Haw haw haw, I get the joke! Vaginas … panties … it’s funny because you’re calling him a woman. And we kind of hate women.

Funny, when I got assigned a vagina I was also issued a fucking sense of humor.

[Kimmy_Gibbler]

@fluiddruid

Funny, when I got assigned a vagina I was also issued a fucking sense of humor.

Good thing I have neither then, isn’t it?