04-29-2015, 12:08 PM
billb wrote:
[quote=Uncle Wig]
Someone got paid $$$ for this:
In a continuation of its “Up for Whatever” campaign, a wide blue band low on the label says, “The perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from your vocabulary for the night.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/busine...nline.html
It doesn't say , “The perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from HER vocabulary for the night.”
It doesn't say , “The perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from HIS vocabulary for the night.”
While it's not surprising the usual cast of characters looking to be offended by something/anything and will project their own fears, uncertainties, doubts and agendas regarding their own dishonesty re the intent and author's intended meaning of the slogan.
Probably an ill-advised or poorly thought thru campaign in a world full of cowards with exploitation and race cards used like some kind of substitute for non-earned badges of courage .
I agree the "OK just rape me" connotation doesn't exist here. What IS truly unfortunate however is the promotion of alcohol being the reducer of barriers to inhibition in general. IMO breweries have some responsibility to acknowledge that fact (as a negative) and not push the notion that booze just makes everything wonderful. Budweiser treats their target audience as idiots here.
Also, it takes about 3 weeks to get gov't approval for new beer bottle labels. (They check things like beer description and so on.) So it's unlikely this is a dusty old campaign being published on the label.