Comments on: Target Women: Carl’s Jr

By: Githzerai

Githzerai — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:52:42 +0000

I figured that the whole using your hand thing was playing on men’s fear of vibrators. Don’t worry douches, you don’t have to feel threatened.

These are bad ads on so many levels…

By: ACG

ACG — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:31:42 +0000

Of course, I totally support the creation of NEW feminist slang too, if people don’t like to use “douche.” Now that could be a fun competition–who can create the best feminist insults?

I recently coined “nutscrub,” on the idea that if something designed to clean a woman’s vagina is disgusting, something designed to clean a man’s nuts has to be at least as bad. But there are some constructions that really just require the use of “douche” (douchebag, douchemaster, douchelicker, douchewhistle, douchepickle), and for those, I douche away.

Not literally. Because that’s bad for you. But figuratively, in terms of using the word “douche.”

By: Rememdium

Rememdium — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:23:20 +0000

I didn’t really get the whole using your hand instead of a machine thing having to do with a hand job, I actually thought they were implying it about female masturbation… and coming from a gay male that’s just bizarre.

By: Nicolien

Nicolien — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:59:23 +0000

Am currently reading ‘The Pornography of Meat’ by Carol J. Adams. Page after page after page of examples of this kind of ad… ugh.
(I mean, the book is very good, but the ads… ugh again!)

By: Bagelsan

Bagelsan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:54:17 +0000

Domino’s Pizza

That makes me sad to hear… *nothing* is cheaper than Domino’s. :p

By: Bonn

Bonn — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:54:20 +0000

It’s too bad that their ads are … as they are. I quite liked Hardee’s as a kid and haven’t had any opportunity to eat there in a long time (our Hardee’s transformed into a Burger King).

Their ads are stupid but I would probably still eat there if I had the chance.

By: Jha

Jha — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:15:18 +0000

Liz: Did you try pausing and waiting a few minutes? If you did and it still kept freezing, your browser might be having a problem with the code.

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:29:24 +0000

Great video, but I found it the way it kept freezing really, really frustrating. Is there anything I can do for that? Me and my GF were chewing the table in frustration.

By: How Gender Gets Used to Support Patriarchal Douchebaggery « Women Born Transsexual

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:36:23 +0000

[...] 04/04/2009 — Suzan I absolutely adore Sarah Haskins I saw this video clip on Feministe and thought it would be a good one to post here because Carl’s Jr is a totally scumbag [...]

By: Suzy

Suzy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:11:58 +0000

Carl’s not only has sucky ads exploiting the grossest of gender stereotypes but they are an ultra right wing corporation that contributes to anti-feminist, anti-choice and anti-LGBT/T causes and political campaigns.

They are pretty much in the same league as Coors and Domino’s Pizza in that they are all good businesses to womancott