Do Men Really Need Target Advertising?

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sdifox

No Lifer
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I bought a "men's" "universal" soap(shampoo, body wash, everything...) a couple years ago. I bought it based on the supposed scent. It was cedar and citrus. I laser focused on the cedar, and didn't consider the citrus, so of course it smells virtually 100% like citrus(which I have zero interest in). I'm slowly using it up, and it won't be replaced.
Candy ass
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
As a ginger I'm intrigued, they have aloe. I can give myself an aloe enema to relieve sunburn while wiping myself.

Seriously though that seems like such a wasteful product, bet that package is plastic and those wipes are probably not actually flushable or biodegradeble. Stuff like that has to stop.
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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As a ginger I'm intrigued, they have aloe. I can give myself an aloe enema to relieve sunburn while wiping myself.

Seriously though that seems like such a wasteful product, bet that package is plastic and those wipes are probably not actually flushable or biodegradeble. Stuff like that has to stop.

I have to admit I'm a butt-wipe lover...to the point I can't go without them :/
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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Just get a bidet/washlet and don't look back.

As for the topic, yes, masculinity really can be that fragile.
You can't bring a bidet with you. I use those damned things at work, all of our bathrooms, everywhere...
 

Scarpozzi

Lifer
Jun 13, 2000
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so, hygiene products for guidos

"axewipes"


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If that was a product, I'd make another product in this space, call it "Bud Dry" and kill them in marketing...

"Why Axe Wipe? Try Bud Dry!"
 
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zinfamous

No Lifer
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Yep...Mark Cuban bought in. People will buy anything that makes them feel special.


Hey, I think that link has a lot of the information that OP desperately wants to uh...prove his point?

I'm sure he'll be interested to read it.
 
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Meh, I just remember the general notion where women were getting pissed that "female products" cost more than the male version.

One of the end conclusions of studies was that men were just far more likely to simply pick a product based on its cost instead of its function... Especially for simple things like soap.

"Does the product clean me during showers?" Yes or No. No in-between... No 2 in one moisturizer etc.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
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Good ol AT. Where computer programmer tools can also print off complimentary degrees in human psychology, economics, and business management at anytime.

Uh, you do understand that your posts in this thread stand as clear evidence that this is exactly how you received your degree, right?
 
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Uh, you do understand that your posts in this thread stand as clear evidence that this is exactly how you received your degree, right?
Really? I'm not the one declaring anything here. I was the one asking questions.

Amazing how you try and turn that around.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
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Really? I'm not the one declaring anything here. I was the one asking questions.

Amazing how you try and turn that around.

the level of cognitive dissonance is astonishing. I wonder if you will wind up as some sort of case study in those text books that you so blindly deride. :D
 

snoopy7548

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I don't know about you sissies, but I'm a real man and I feel no shame when I buy tampons for myself.
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