Target Women: Hair
You may remember this popular medieval fable from school. Griselda, a serf, is standing in a pile of barn muck one day, contemplating how the noble knight she loves won't give her a second glance. Then a lion that someone brought back from the Crusades walks by and inspires Griselda. All she needs is a glistening mane! As if on cue, a Demon appears chanting:
"Tempting Demon:
What would you give for pretty swooshy hair?
Maiden:
Why everything everything everything!
Tempting Demon:
Your voice and your ability to be self-aware?
Maiden:
Everything, everything for pretty pretty hair!"
-From "Three Stories of Muck and Beauty with One Lion" by An Anonymous Friar
Well, times haven't changed. We're all Griseldas.
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Well, you know what they say...HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
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Hairlarious!
Cute.
Ah, I adore her.
She is funny!
Sarah Haskins: a Samantha Bee for a new generation.
Good one!
OMG, I watched this expecting something really stupid-- it was BRILLIANT! Just like your hair, girl!
Here's to hoping that the next topic she takes on is feminine hygiene products. You could have a lotta fun with those...
Oh, and ladies? Have a happy period.
Aaugh! I hatehatehate the Always slogan. Have a happy WHAT?!? There's no way a woman came up with that.
How many different kinds of freshness can there be?
Sarah, great segment! I love watching Infomania on current.
BTW I haven't shampooed my hair in at least a year and it's never been cleaner, healthier, NOT greasy, and I no longer have the "frizzies".
I tell all my friends to try the "no poo" method; It Works! and takes us one step further away from crass consumerism. Shampoos strip the hair, creating the NEED for more products.
Sarah, I love the way you toss your hair. What hair care products do you use, personally?
Sarah, I love the way you toss your hair ! What hair care products do you, personally, use?
A million years ago when I was 18, a new mom, and married to an idiot. His idiot friend said to me, "I like chicks with hair down to their a$$." And so I kicked him out and divorced my idiot husband.
As well you should have!
Because of what his friend said? I'd say they came out ahead in that one.
Sarah, I *love* your earrings in this segment! See, that's the trouble with hair ads, you can't see their earrings. Which would, I guess, get in the way of them not talking or something. Quality comedy gold as always, thanks!
Sarah Haskins rocks. She is fantastic in pointing out the stupidity and offensiveness of advertising.
The goal of all advertising is to convince people that there's something deeply flawed about you that keeps you unable to obtain true happiness. If only your hair/skin/car/peanut butter/laundry detergent/etc were right then all the anxiety and angst pent up inside of you would release itself all at once and you will be become a complete and intensely satisfied human being full of everlasting bliss. Beauty products advertisers are the best at playing this game because they continue to promise you the one thing that it is impossible to obtain, everlasting youth. If at any point you actually obtain true happiness (and this is done not by using store bought products) then you will no longer need their products and they will be out of business. As long as the marketers can convince you that your hair/skin/laundry detergent is somehow NOT PERFECT then they will continue to win in their game of mass psychology call PROPAGANDA. Hitler used the same tools at mass brain control as advertisers do, think about it.
Elitist smear of the worst sort. If consumers are brainwashed by advertising then why do 70% of all new products fail? The Sham Wow people have a 90% failure rate. Why? Because people are smarter than you give them credit for and are quite capable of resisting ad propaganda. Get off you high horse.
If advertising didn't work comanies of every stripe would not pay billions for it? Oh right because it does work. The fact that it doesn't work all the time doesn't change that. Pull that stick out you I mean your ass.
Because "NEW PRODUCTS" don't have the kind of marketing budget of OLD PRODUCTS and that's why companies like GM can convince people to buy subpar products for several decades. Sorry, plenty of people fall for this crap. The multi billions of dollars the "beauty" industry takes in yearly (and we won't even talk about how much plastic surgeons rake in) should tell you all you need to know. If people were as "smart" as you suggest then they would just buy the cheapest product that did the job instead of buying those products that have the highest NAME RECOGNITION paid for by ADVERTISING. So spare me your defense of the "little guy". The Americans that you're defending were also stupid enough to buy into the branding of George W. Bush not once but twice and almost fell for the branding of Sarah Palin, too. That fact alone should tell you all you need to know about how susceptible and easily conned a MAJORITY of Americans are. They were conned into letting their jobs get sent overseas (and blaming the unions and the minorities for it instead of the CEOs who did the did) while they spend the next two decades living off of high interest credit instead of real income. As long as that credit allowed them to buy things that could give them the illusion of happiness (over-sized homes, multiple cars, and beauty products that helped them look like all their soccer mom competition) then they didn't care.
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