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14 May 2012, 7:39 pm

^^^ agreed


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14 May 2012, 7:52 pm

Chipshorter wrote:
As a whole the article, as a work of journalism is below par in quality. I found the overall tone of the article to be obnoxious and derogatory, this is due to the retail analogy that was used in the piece. The reification of finding and choosing a potential partner to be identical to the activities of trading commodities in a retail environment, is quite clearly a crass attempt of objectification.


Sex sells :lol:



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14 May 2012, 8:18 pm

JanuaryMan wrote:
Chipshorter wrote:
As a whole the article, as a work of journalism is below par in quality. I found the overall tone of the article to be obnoxious and derogatory, this is due to the retail analogy that was used in the piece. The reification of finding and choosing a potential partner to be identical to the activities of trading commodities in a retail environment, is quite clearly a crass attempt of objectification.


Sex sells :lol:


Bollocks!! Is sexuality effective in advertising, I don't think so & I'll proof it.

Back on 1999, Advertising Age compiled there list of 100 greatest advertising campaign of the 20th century. Do you what to know how many out thoses 100 ads involved sex? Only 8 out of 100

http://adage.com/article/special-report ... ns/140918/


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14 May 2012, 8:41 pm

Woah, relax, I was kidding around, man!
Interesting article you linked to nonetheless.



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14 May 2012, 10:36 pm

^^ am too relaxed right now :lol:

I remember about a month ago, I made a thread in L&D about online dating and search algorithms, in which I came to the conclusion that "Dating Nouveau" in its digital format is simply objectification via the e-commerce metaphor.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt194780.html


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