Yogurt?
BWAHAHAHA! 
My brother-in-law guzzles diet soda by the case but won’t walk down the feminine hygeine products aisle at the supermarket. Make 'em prove their manhood by stocking it next to the tampons!
(he really won’t. After my sister had a hysterectomy and needed pads for the post-surgical bleeding he wouldn’t go buy them for her. He made my brother do it)
Oh YES – yes, I adore Diet A&W root beer! That’s the one tied with Diet Dr. Pepper for me. I can’t believe I didn’t mention it. Great stuff and for me almost indistinguishable from regular soda. I also very much like their diet cream soda too, but that has caffeine, argh. (You wouldn’t think root beer would be caffeine-free while cream soda isn’t, would you? Then again I guess I associate caffeine with darker drinks, which is really nonsensical I suppose.)
I’m in the city so nice they named it twice, as it says in my location. (Or do guests not see that? Edited to add… wait, you’re a Member. Forget I asked.) Or to be more precise, Manhattan. I’ve found one store that sold the CF version of Diet Dr. Pepper, but it was there only for a limited time and they haven’t restocked it.
I agree that caffeine-free Diet Coke is certainly better than regular Diet Coke, which is something I totally don’t understand. For me it has less aftertaste. But it’s not one of my personal faves.
Um… topic? I guess I do think the Facebook-blocking is kinda dumb. But it’s a jokey gimmick intended for PR value. I just can’t work myself up to be angry. I know someone might eventually compare it to, I dunno, segregation or “no Jews/coloreds/Irish need apply” type of bigotry, but I can’t think of any product that would ever be marketed that way, at least not overtly or for laughs. The battle of the sexes has inspired many jokes for eons and I don’t think this was maliciously intended.
As an aside, I work in a chain store’s pharmacy department and stocking feminine hygiene is one of my duties. Store management receives a complaint at least once a week from female customers that a male is stocking “their” products. On my off days, a few of the other male stockers at the store will refuse to work that section, or even pick up a stray box of tampons that may be abandoned in their own departments. So IME the squeamishness of men handling pads/tampons affects both overly-sensitive/stupid men and women.
I’m kind of surprised that no one else picked up on villas comment regarding Yorkie bars in the UK. They’ve been doing this “not for women” thing for nearly a decade, except they get a little more sexist, calling women “girls” and “birds.” Here’s a TV ad from YouTube, and a blog with a picture of the packaging.
… Clad in white terrycloth !!!
This Pepper party’s got to go
HEY HEY
HO HO
Thank Rumsfeld for Aspartame! The shit gives me headaches and makes me the biggest damn grouch you ever met… Diet sodas aren’t for women, just for fools.
And diabetics.
I don’t mean this to question your honesty, but that is very difficult for me to believe. It sounds utterly insane.
I will assume that it’s a single crazy woman who’s making all the calls. Even if it isn’t true, I’d rather believe it than accept the implications of the truth.
I chalk it up to women who are embarrassed to be shopping for them while I’m stocking them. Or older women (though they’re usually brash enough to just chastise me wather than sneaking off to complain to someone else). When I notice that women are looking awkward while I’m in the section, I’ll take off and do stocking elsewhere until they’re done. We also have several very conservative and/or very large religious churches in the neighborhood who come shopping after services; I do know some of the complaints have come from older women from the local Pentecostal church. (We also still get complaints about openly selling condoms and such, if that says anything.)
It’s honestly no more insane than a guy who refuses to even touch a package of tampons, IMO.
He has one. Didn’t you know that writing strongly worded letters are the new crocheting?
:smack: So are bad grammar, apparently.
The ninnies with their Underoos all cinched up in a wad over this forced me into buying a twelve pack of Dr. Pepper 10 this afternoon. My verdict? T’ain’t bad.
Taint bad?? If you had said balls bad, or ass bad, I would have still tried it. But TAINT bad? I’ll pass.
So is bad grammar.
I used to work as a supermarket nightfiller and we just stocked whatever came off the stock pallets wherever it needed to go, so I’d quite often be re-stocking various feminine hygeine products, condoms, lube, pregnancy tests, and various other things that might be… well, of a “personal” nature. And I did sometimes get comments from women wondering why a guy was restocking the tampons, just as I’m sure one of the women restocking condoms and men’s razors and shaving cream would have guys wondering why that was happening . They never went as far as “Complaints” as far as I know, but I have absolutely zero trouble believing that it happens.
FWIW, whenever someone would say something like “Why are you [a man] stocking tampons on the shelf???” I’d say “Because people keep buying them” with my best deadpan voice.
So I watched the commercial on YouTube. (FWIW, I’m female.)
OMG - a commercial about a product that’s not marketed to me! With guys doing guy stuff!
I’m feeling some oppression up in this bitch!
BTW I took my oppressed self to their Facebook page and am currently playing around with their Manly Shooting Gallery. If they were at one point blocking womenfolk, they obviously aren’t anymore.
Whoosh, FCOL. :rolleyes:
These days you could use the line “Because I AM the worlds most interesting man”.