{"id":2597,"date":"2007-05-30T08:34:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T08:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2007-05-30T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T08:34:15","slug":"lies_in_adverti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/lies_in_adverti\/","title":{"rendered":"lies in advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"

sometimes advertising gets me all riled up.
\nthere’s a Canon commercial on the radio i hear at least once during each of my morning and afternoon commutes. it’s got a married couple looking at a Canon camera flyer and the wife says things like “it’s so stylish” and “it would fit in my pocket” about the Elph while the husband prattles on about all the superior technical features of the other model he’s interested in. the inference is that women only care about how a camera looks<\/em> while men are more interested in how a camera works<\/em>. it’s compounded when the man makes a snotty comment about how he doesn’t “take” photos, he “makes” them.
\nnot only is it a stupid commercial, it’s insulting. the more i hear it, the more pissed off i get. all right, i get that i’m more geeky than the average female. i also concede that i’m more interested in the technical side of photography than most women. that does not mean that the majority of women decide on purchases purely on the object’s visual appeal. i’d like to believe that women are smarter than that and to have advertisers reinforce the stereotype is unacceptable in the year 2007.
\nall i can say is that i’m very glad i’m a Nikon girl<\/a> (which i chose entirely on specs, btw). take that, Canon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

sometimes advertising gets me all riled up. there’s a Canon commercial on the radio i hear at least once during each of my morning and afternoon commutes. it’s got a married couple looking at a Canon camera flyer and the wife says things like “it’s so stylish” and “it would fit in my pocket” about …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}