sexist crap

[ewx]

I notice that the ingredients and nutritional information section on Skips packets (you know, the crisps) are labelled "for mum", putting it into a similar category to Yorkie bars. Why is our junk food getting covered in this nonsense?

Comments

[aldabra]

Presumably to instill the meme that it's cool to ignore that stuff, once people are old enough to rebel against what their mums tell them to do. Which ISTR starts at about nine months...

[taimatsu]

I hate the current Yorkie bar thing. I used to buy Yorkies quite a lot and I just don't now. It's so off-putting and unpleasant.

[senji.livejournal.com]

I stopped buying Yorkies when I started buying Green&Blacks. I agree about the offputtingness and unpleasantitude though :(.

Yorkies

[sparrowsion]

I was thinking just the other night that there should be a marketting campaign for a sensual luxury chocolate tagged as being "not for blokes".

Re: Yorkies

[senji.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Who could we sell that idea too....

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

I was going to stop buying them, but I was boycotting them already. How irritating...

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

Yup, it is crap, I dunno if it's sexist. I don't understand why people get upset by this sort of thing, I mean it's just junk food, if you like it buy it, if you don't like it, don't buy it. I'm sure there's more to worry about in the world than bloody silly gimmicky labelling on wrappers. Sorry, small rant, not aimed at anyone in particular.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

"more to worry about in the world" - this is a common but spurious approach to things; unless you yourself are genuinely only concerned with the significant and not with trivia like Turkish Delight and cricket, why criticise someone else for reading the back of crisp packets?

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

My comment was not aimed at anyone in particular. It was a general comment made on ewx's journal in response to his post about snack wrappers. I was agreeing with him, why are they putting that nonsense on junk food wrappers? You must lead a sadly empty life if all you have to do is read days old comments, trawl journals and make personal attacks. Grow up.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why people get upset by this sort of thing, I mean it's just junk food, if you like it buy it, if you don't like it, don't buy it. I'm sure there's more to worry about in the world than bloody silly gimmicky labelling on wrappers.

You were agreeing with him? Sure you were.

That was not a personal attack. This is a personal attack; if you're going to lie about what you wrote, try not to make it trivially obvious that you were doing so.

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

Go away you idiot. You might not have better things to do than cause arguments over something and nothing, but I do. If you feel it's important that you have to have the last word then do respond. I won't be replying to you again.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't overdramatise. You were talking shite, I called you on it. Deal with it!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Because they are evil sexist patriarchial fules. They may be EVIL now but come the feminist(kitten) revolution they will be sent down the mines to mine pretty things to put on the end of string for kittens to chase. They will be enslaved! They will be thrown to the lions and tigers for SPORT. Their punishments will be ENDLESS for they have committed the double crime of sexit pig-ness and making bad chocolate.

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My type of humour (assuming it was meant to be ;-))

[senji.livejournal.com]

Kitten Revolutions?! Cool!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

And you just know what the Keanu Reeves character is going to be called.

[rillaith.livejournal.com]

*envisions tiny floofball sitting on a turntable looking slightly confused as it goes round and round and round and...*

[senji.livejournal.com]

Ooo.... *ferretshock*

[k425.livejournal.com]

You know, Led Zep sounds really weird with a kitten sitting on the record as it goes around and around more and more slowly. Ex-hubby took two goes, with two different cats, to remember to put the lid down on the turntable.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Feminists or kittens? You Can't Have Both.

[senji.livejournal.com]

Hmm, difficult choice. :)

[gerald_duck]

The blurb on Hula Hoops is at least slightly amusing by comparison. It's something like "Don't try to make Hula Hoops at home; you don't stand a chance. But if you did, you'd need the following bits and pieces." above the ingredients list.

Sadly, Hula Hoops are nowhere near as good as they once were - nowadays they just taste of bad vegetable oil. Or maybe my tastes are becoming more refined.

Mini Cheddars are the pits. They give "amusing" mock definitions of various words that aren't in the least funny. To make matters worse, they contain such appalling errors of grammar as "surprising (noun)".

[sbp.livejournal.com]

And there's the Nissan Micra (I think) adverts that purport to be defining a whole new language, when all their new words are portmanteaus and as such could be perfectly valid for inclusion in this one.

[fanf]

Including such "non-existent" words as "fawn".

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's to provoke indignation in certain parts, reaction against the indignation by those people desperate to prove they have a sense of humour, and a talking point for everyone else.

Myself, I don't let it affect my judgement either way.

[lnr]

With the Yorkies yes, I think that is what it's for.

The way it's done on the Skips packet makes it look like they genuinely did just think "kids aren't going to be interested in this stuff, but we have to put it on anyway, lets label it as for mum" without thinking about dad or whoever else. It's not like they draw huge attention to it, it's just noticeable if you're the sort of person who can't see words on a packet without reading them.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

'A sense of humour' is such a tool of oppression.

[ex-monkeyhan688.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice that. I was too busy being really pissed off because they contain fish oil, and I'm a vegetarian and had just bought a multipack. For fuck's SAKE! Since when did a packet of crisps actually contain the real stuff it's supposedly flavoured with?
What made it worse was that I tried to swap the crisps at work, but the people I work with just ignored the e-mail I sent and then found them in my desk drawer and ate them without giving me anything in return.
As for Yorkies, there's the small matter of NESTLE KILLING BABIES to worry about, before we get on to the sexism or otherwise of their advertising.