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Oh, well.
Even the Axe ads are actually parodic of the genre of advertising in question. If one looks at advertising for Old Spice in the 70's, it's very much "Use old spice and attractive women will notice you." Played completely straight. This is where the feminist critique of objectification of women in advertisements originates, and was last relevant.
In the Axe ads, the man using the product doesn't just attract the attention of attractive women, he transforms attractive women into a violent mob intent on ripping him to pieces. In the Chocolate ad the man is *literally* ripped to pieces. So the advertisement plays into the classic sci-fi/fantasy trope of the love potion that only brings tragedy, compressed into a stylish 30 second advertisement.
I wonder how effective can really be to satirize advertisments that in themselves satirical? The true appeal of these ads, the reason they are effective, is not because of what they promise, but because they appeal to our generations need to feel clever. Rather than satirizing these ads, Sarah has played right into them. By pointing out the self-evident ludicrous nature of the ads, she had ultimately only shown us the ads one more time.
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