this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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Honestly, it puts me off completely. I'm a woman and this is what gaming used to be: women are sluts. The ad isn't even trying to be clever or anything. Like wtf is this this trying to say?
The ad is saying PlayStation is as good as drugs? I'm assuming that the little tabs are supposed to be exctacy or something.
Ecstasy.
Exactly
eccentric
Eggcelent
sexelent
Exstacltsy
And why is it a "trashy hot" woman despite the target audience being 99% young men at the time? This is what I mean. The ad speaks to a target audience that is not on the poster.
Oh, she's trashy? Why? Please don't tell us you did not get whooshed by the ad now.
The ad has combined the image of putting tablets on a womans tongue, while also having her in a pose with tongue out that is also used to imply the desire to perform oral sex. This is highlighted by the fact she is looking up, with the camera focused on her face.
That said, I'm guessing here, but I'm sure as hell not going to tell a woman she's not allowed to be offended by sexualization of another woman to sell Playstations.
Yeah, so you can see the logos forming the pattern of the face buttons on the pills.
becausw she's getting high, this is really common "being high" imagery. That's even why it looks slightly sexual: orgasms are just a different kind of high.
Nobody said she can't be, they just pointed out her reasoning doesn't really hold much water, because it doesn't. People can feel however they want about something, none of us can stop them.
Are you seriously implying this is the only pose you could use to show that off?
Ah, ok, I understand now.
No, don't put words in other people's mouths. Just because you read it as sexual does not mean that was the intention
Nobody's been condescending but you, motherfucker.
Hahahhahahah
Bruh, what?
When i saw this ad, all i thought was ecstasy, rave and playstation. Not "women are sluts" or anything like it. If i didn't get the reference, i probably would think the same about the ad as her. I don't think she got the reference, not after her initial comment.
Tongue out with ecstasy on is something you would see at raves. The eyes up is odd i give you that, that's made to look submissive, and sure there are sexual connotations, advertisers are clever.
But raves were also not some sterile asexual gatherings either. I don't know.
Yeah exactly, but also come on everyone, ecstasy is a drug that tends to make you want to fuck. So I think the ad -> sluttiness could be from, and I'm guessing here, that she's in a submissive pose that just so happens to be identical to a sexual one, taking a drug that makes one want to fuck, and that's her 'role' in this ad.
That said, you'll notice not a single person asking the woman who posted why she saw it that way, they just jumped to tell her she's wrong.
So @[email protected] , on behalf of men on lemmy, I'm sorry you got this reaction. I really hope at least one person in this thread goes "Wait... I don't see it as problematic, but someone else does. Maybe I should understand why?"
I should not have replied to her but kept to myself.
I don't care about the ad, never was a gamer, just stumbled in here via all.
The fact you have the wherewithal to say that means you're basically there already. A simple "Huh, why?" goes a long way.
You want me to ask why she feels that way about the ad? She already said why, i'm good thanks, not following this topic any longer.