{"id":183186,"date":"2015-02-02T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/02\/buy-a-truck-because-your-penis-is-too-small\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:43:00","slug":"buy-a-truck-because-your-penis-is-too-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/02\/buy-a-truck-because-your-penis-is-too-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy a Truck, Because Your Penis is Too Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 390px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CzP2yzrKl28\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Advertising, Exploiting People with Insecurity About Their Manhood for more than a Century<\/i><\/div>\n<p>In the conflation of automobiles and manhood that is the American car advertisement, the latest GM ad, which doesn&#8217;t even bother making the juxtaposition between one&#8217;s choice in transportation and one&#8217;s manhood, and they pretty explicitly state it.<\/p>\n<p>The video attached shows hoe they bring in a &#8220;focus group&#8221; of young women who look at pictures, and they universally find the guy in front of a truck sexier than the <b>same guy<\/b> in front of a hatchback.<\/p>\n<p>First, they obviously had to find a group of women <b>dumb<\/b> enough not to think, &#8220;Hey, these are the same guys?&nbsp; Are you trying to imply that I am a vacuous shallow bitch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  Just how <span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">tiny<\/span> does a potential car buyer&#8217;s penis have to be for this ad to work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertising, Exploiting People with Insecurity About Their Manhood for more than a Century In the conflation of automobiles and manhood that is the American car advertisement, the latest GM ad, which doesn&#8217;t even bother making the juxtaposition between one&#8217;s choice in transportation and one&#8217;s manhood, and they pretty explicitly state it. The video attached shows &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125,1108,1139,982,1035,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-auto-industry","category-automobile","category-stupid","category-transportation","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}