Kate Van Buskirk was wrong - new TomTom ad is amazing

confused liberal wrote:

What do you think?

Jon Gugala appears to support kate:

Did she post a selfie of herself while writing this comment? That girl comes off as very conceited and holier than thou. Had to unfollow her from twitter & instagram.

just googled it wrote:

confused liberal wrote:

What do you think?

Jon Gugala appears to support kate:

http://fittish.deadspin.com/tom-tom-employs-sexist-ad-to-showcase-running-watch-fea-1619939830/all

Oh right, Gugala, defender of women everywhere.

justathought wrote:

Did she post a selfie of herself while writing this comment? That girl comes off as very conceited and holier than thou. Had to unfollow her from twitter & instagram.

This is exactly how she was at Duke. She sees sexism everywhere.

no different wrote:

justathought wrote:

Did she post a selfie of herself while writing this comment? That girl comes off as very conceited and holier than thou. Had to unfollow her from twitter & instagram.

This is exactly how she was at Duke. She sees sexism everywhere.

Maybe because it is everywhere. America is a very mysogynistic place. Ads like tomtom just reinforce that attitude. Basically a lot of men are pigs.

not very wrote:

no different wrote:

This is exactly how she was at Duke. She sees sexism everywhere.

Maybe because it is everywhere. America is a very mysogynistic place. Ads like tomtom just reinforce that attitude. Basically a lot of men are pigs.

Hi Kate.

Misdirection is funny sometimes but this woman is working up a sweat for barely running 100m. How many LR's have ever cared about someone who runs a 60min 5k?

not very wrote:

no different wrote:

This is exactly how she was at Duke. She sees sexism everywhere.

Maybe because it is everywhere. America is a very mysogynistic place. Ads like tomtom just reinforce that attitude. Basically a lot of men are pigs.

Sex is everywhere. It's undeniable. Women and men want it. You can enjoy sex without being overtly sexiest.

When Kate was just a teenager the first thing she did after races was whip off her singlet and parade around the infield in her sports bra.

When did she become a prude?

She does have borderline personality disorder so cutting her some slack seems appropriate.

Captain Oblivious wrote:

When Kate was just a teenager the first thing she did after races was whip off her singlet and parade around the infield in her sports bra.

When did she become a prude?

She does have borderline personality disorder so cutting her some slack seems appropriate.

You don't have to be a prude to oppose sexism.

She's absolutely right. That ad is using tits to sell a running product and not the virtues of the product itself.

The only appropriate response is "I know it's wrong but I like tits".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEGLbCNRqw

On a somewhat related note, has anybody seen the music video of Big Data - Dangerous? Sex and violence sell and the video satirizes it, with a couple of big-breasted runner girls, who make out at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b4xYbEugo

headbutt your way through life wrote:

On a somewhat related note, has anybody seen the music video of Big Data - Dangerous? Sex and violence sell and the video satirizes it, with a couple of big-breasted runner girls, who make out at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b4xYbEugo

Hahahaha. As someone who has worked in Advertising for years, this is great.

Basically a lot of men are pigs.

Huh. I thought all men are pigs. Oink.

Without knowing it was for tomtom, I would have thought it was for a new sports bra. I thought it was a pretty funny twist, actually. Yes, women have breasts. Sometimes they are really nice ones. Who cares. Calvin Klein should be ashamed of having their models wear no shirts when they are selling boxers!? The tragedy...Grow some thicker god damn skin.

I'm the Realis' wrote:

She's absolutely right. That ad is using tits to sell a running product and not the virtues of the product itself.

The only appropriate response is "I know it's wrong but I like tits".

This I agree with. I will not buy the product just because of that ad. I want to know what it does.

But I don't need GPS, anyways, because I have a great sense of direction.

Men are pigs, but women are gold-diggers. Kate needs to move away from her tired schtick.

If the ad featured a ridiculously hunky dude instead, it would just be a funny ad...but if it's trying to sell with FEMALE sexiness, oh my God, we need to call the sexism police. Double standard.

My take is that if the TomTom marketers chose to market exclusively to a male audience, it shows that their research indicates that men are the vast majority of people actually forking over money for their product. So since women still use TomTom, there are 3 possibilities: (1) Women would rather get men to buy the product for them than buy it themselves. (2) The product isn't catching on with the same percentage of women as men, so why not market to your audience? (3) Women by and large just don't care about any 'sexism' in the ad, since they know they love hot guys just as much as guys love hot girls.

headbutt your way through life wrote:

On a somewhat related note, has anybody seen the music video of Big Data - Dangerous? Sex and violence sell and the video satirizes it, with a couple of big-breasted runner girls, who make out at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b4xYbEugo

We are having a discussin with intelligent people about what should be, not what is. It takes a little intelligence for that.

Atta girl, Kate.

She has some brains and a lot of guts. That is very problematic for a lot of men on here.