I am a bad goth.

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Maybe it loses something with the audio off, but I don't think that award-winning Campari "genderfuck" ad is particularly stylish, and I sure as fuck don't find it sexy. Yes, it's clever and well-composed.

However, I've already seen The Crying Game, thanks.

Suffice it to say, even if I didn't think it tasted like medicinal asshole sweat, the commercial certainly doesn't make me want to drink Campari... "Swig some of this stuff, and you won't have any idea what sex the person you're flirting with is."

No thanks.

I'm down on androgyny, I'm afraid. I like guys to be built like guys, and women who are recognizably feminine. To bastardize and repurpose something clever cavalorn said several years ago, "Those two having sex would be like me banging two bicycles together."

In beer commercials, there's none of that ambiguity.

I don't do subtle.

Comments

Bad Goth! No eyeliner!

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just think the guy is hot. :)

Re: Bad Goth! No eyeliner!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I've spent my share of time in a form-fitting velvet skirt, and no amount of makeup would fool anyone but the most desperately impaired into thinking I've got indoor plumbing.

;-)

Re: Bad Goth! No eyeliner!

[ivy]

Which one are you counting as the guy? Appearances at the beginning, or at the end?

Re: Bad Goth! No eyeliner!

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

Yes.

To be fair, though, I was talking about the presumably biological male.

bad goth!

[ross-winn.livejournal.com]

no eyeliner for you!

Re: bad goth!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

you;ve been beaten to the punch by someone much, much nicer to look at. sorry. ;-)

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

Seems this is one of those rare moments when I get to say; "I don't watch enough TV". I have no idea what it is you're talking about, though now, I am intrigued.

Not enough to go watching any more TV, however.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I don't believe it's on tv, just the web:

http://www.epica-awards.org/assets/epica/2005/finalists/film/flv/04005.swf

[kungfugimp.livejournal.com]

I like my beer cold, my tv loud and my homosexuals Falameing!"

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I like my beer tepid, my TV off, and, well, I don't have a whole lot of opinion of homosexuals beyond, "I'm flattered, but not interested, thanks, though."

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

" ... You can still buy me that drink, though."

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I'm usually oblivious. mighty_man has an amusing anectdote on this subject, where we were flirting with a fella's sister, and he was actually hitting on me (as I was told after the fact; I just thought he was a nice guy).

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, I had totally forgotten about that. But he was *very* male. Kilt and all. After you had left (I can't remember where we were), I told him where you were going and he took off after you. Unfortunately, his sister eventually decided that she'd best go find him *grr*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

We were at Zoo Bar, on Chippewa, playing pool with Steve Lo, iirc. The guy in the kilt and his sister were there after a friend's wedding or some formal office function or some such thing.

[ivy]

That's okay; enjoy your beer commercials. [grin] More androgynes for me; and no, I don't really care what the gender is of the person I'm flirting with. Genuinely not being able to tell is sometimes a bonus. (I don't think I've ever once seen anyone in a beer commercial that I considered even remotely attractive. The Campari ad totally wins, but leaves me with no desire whatsoever to drink Campari.)

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait... that was supposed to make me want Campari?

It's a really crap commercial, then. Because that's NOT what I was left wanting.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

... like all those jeans commercials in the 80's and 90's that made guys like me want to go out and get a pneumatic young woman and buy train tickets, not purchase jeans. *chuckle*

[ivy]

Well, I would help either protagonist clean up, no matter what Campari tasted like. [grin] And I might end up with a residual associative fondness afterwards; you never know.

[kat1031.livejournal.com]

Same here.

Have to disagree, R. The ad was pretty hot.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I'm noticing a strong skewing of "people who found the ad hot" to be almost universally female.

What this says is open to interpretation.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Campari's targeting the chick market?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

we both win! :-)

I have an idea...

[ross-winn.livejournal.com]

A new slogan for Campari:

Drink Campari, because paint thinner will make you go blind. Drink Camoari and leave the blindness behind.

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, the bizarro chanting classical music helps a bit.

I rather fancy both the individuals in that advert, sorry.

Not Campari though. Apparently, it is the tranny drink of choice in the UK (I quote from a self-confessed tranny) so perhaps they are just trying to actually get to their target-market.

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. The woman isn't hot enough for me to be interested, and the guy isn't my type, so I'm sorta, meh, I don't like boys who are prettier than me. Because I've found that the ones that are are also a lot vainer and more self-centered, too.

And I think Campari tastes like crap.