Posts Tagged ‘cigars’
Davidoff Cigars Not Buying the Male Orgasm Ads
Remember those Davidoff Cigar ads that featured males appearing to achieve orgasm after taking a whiff of cigar smoke? No? Here’s a refresher:
Well, it looks like Davidoff has passed on the ad designs. Despite the free advertising provided by widespread Internet speculation concerning the intersection of grodiness and gender-role innovation suggested by the cigar ads, Davidoff isn’t too happy about being associated with old men getting off on their product. (For the record, I thought they were interesting).
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When Gender Equality Goes Horribly Wrong
AdFreak has discovered these sexualized advertisements for Davidoff cigars. Each ad is accompanied by a photograph of a male model appearing to orgasm upon catching a whiff of some fine Davidoff cigar smoke. The ads read, “Every Man Has a D-Spot.”
Finally, you may be thinking. Men reduced to sex objects in order to sell phallic shit, and not women this time around! [See female "O" faces in advertising: Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and a bonus nonconsensual orgasm ad in Exhibit C]. So is this gender equality? Is it regressive? Or is it just icky?
This Week In Sexist History: Women’s Suffrage Edition
Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the Sexist, let’s take a ride on journalism’s way-back machine, to a time when men weren’t helpless, girls were pretty enough not to need institutionalized power, and the Speaker of the House was a super-creep with a cigar fetish.
This Week In Sexist History:
Good Old Day: June 23, 1909
Dateline: Washington, D.C.
Keywords: Joseph Gurney Cannon; pretty girls; rolling a cigar reminisciently in one’s mouth; smiling indulgently; women’s suffrage.
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Huffington Post: Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Nipple Is Just Sexist
Last week, I suggested that the Huffington Post was sexist for devoting much of its Entertainment page to obsessively posting accidental female nipple slips caught on camera. Arianna Huffington responded via a Howard Kurtz column by saying:
“As Freud said, ‘Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar’—and a nipple slip is just a nipple slip.”
Well, I’ve been mulling over Huffington’s retort for about 24 hours now, and I’ve finally figured out what is so fucking strange about this response. Let’s start with Freud.
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