Lynx, not for gay ppl.

oneweb · 07-05-2003 9:48pm #1

Sweat attracts other men. Is that what you want?

OK, so now it's confirmed that Lynx is a straight smell (ok, so the (sometimes funny) ads make that pretty obvious) but I think this implies that it is not ok for men to be attracted to men, and found it somewhat offensive

Don't use the stuff whatwith the chemical burns it seems to give me :mad: but I Sure(heheh) wouldn't use it now!

So,
1) What are other ppls thoughts on the ad,
2) Are there actually smelly products aimed towards people of gaiety?

(Actually, one of the funny ads atm is the Crunch Corner one. The girl is in the hotel room, the bloke locked out calls 'Hot Lips' to which a guy passing by looks at him with a sparkle in his eye. rofl.)

LegacyUser · 07-05-2003 9:56pm

Ahh would you get a life.

Its

A

Joke.

Humour, you know ? Stop taking things so seriously.

If you do think the world and Lynx is against you contact www.equality.ie or the Advertising standards Authority

Lynx and their mothercompany who makes Impulse I think had gay friendly ads too you know.

oneweb · 07-05-2003 11:10pm

I chopped a lot off my rant. In doing so I omitted:
Sweaty = attractive to men = not what you'd want...
If it was meant to be a pisstake it showed no hints of that.

Mercury_Tilt · 07-05-2003 11:16pm

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Shinji · 07-05-2003 11:59pm

Well, WOULD you sleep with a bloke wearing a fragrance as fundamentally unpleasant as any of the Lynx variants?

oneweb · 08-05-2003 12:58am

The wording just hit me as odd. That's all. I wanted to know what other peeps thoughts were.

Yeah, I do read a lot into most things.

BuffyBot · 08-05-2003 9:27am

Originally posted by Shinji
Well, WOULD you sleep with a bloke wearing a fragrance as fundamentally unpleasant as any of the Lynx variants?

Now that is the question

yellum · 09-05-2003 12:11am

I'm agreeing with Mercury Tilt (Jesus I feel odd about that )

Maybe you should try and balance yourself by filling in the chip on your shoulder.

You are doing a disservice to the gay population by shouting discrimination without checking your facts.

oneweb · 09-05-2003 3:01pm

Shut up oneweb.

Seems they've re-worded it a lot better (is that all you want)

Now that's funny

OK, now I regret saying anything about the ad at all.

Chip polyfillad.

I take it all back. Sorry Lynx.

Shinji · 09-05-2003 3:11pm

Their deoderants still fucking well stink though

HerrLipp · 09-05-2003 4:10pm

I thought you would have liked "scent of a 13 year old"

azezil · 09-05-2003 4:49pm

oh u big gurls knickers

its a funny add :rolleyes:

Trojan · 09-05-2003 9:30pm

I've been told (several times) that girls favourite is Lynx Africa...

Hmm, not sure what relevance that has to you guys

Anyways hope to see some of you at the boards beer! All are welcome!

Al.

smiles · 09-05-2003 9:38pm

Hmmm... I think some Lynx smeeeeels nice.

<< Fio >>

uberwolf · 09-05-2003 9:52pm

I read this thread yesterday and couldn't remember the add, having seen it lastnight I think you're looking way too much into it. Lynx are perfectly entitled to advertise to their target market(underage hetero males) unless their actually discrimanting against gay people or serving to distance the different leanings then they may continue to do so.

Crying wolf like this at small things like this weakens a more important argument should one arise, and to be fair this is a predominantly heterosexual world, and whilst i believe in live and let live, is it not some what like demanding to drink in a muslim nation if you want everything to be gender and orientation neutral. Or am I way out of line?

And most importantly i reckon women like a slightly male odour nyway(pherenomes and all that), does that carry across?

Gaffo · 10-05-2003 10:02am

I agree with uberwolf to a certain extent. Even if it is discriminatory to gays or anyone, so what. The most recent obvious example is the latest Yorkie ad campaigns (not for women and all that stuff)thats obviously discriminating. This isn't even that obvious. The only thing that I took issue with is the fact that it's actually factually wrong. Sweat does attract other women as uberwolf stated.

Gargamel · 20-05-2003 3:35am

The ad is really naff though. Lynx is really naff. Men smelling of BO is foul and I think everyone will agree when I say it doesn't attract other men, at least not if they're bent (that's not homophobic! how dare you

) If we took a marketing campaigns statements as truths we'd be very silly altogether, any customer of 'Lynx' who watches that ad and feels validated and pleased by a homophobic undertone probably needs to have a long think about why he's that uncomfortable about attraction to other men, leg it around to the Spar and nick his first copy of 'For Women,' and a can of 'Sure.'

It's a recruitment tool lads! Don't get annoyed!

HerrLipp · 20-05-2003 10:56am

The wording of the ad said "men's sweat only attracts other men, is that all you want?". Can't see any discriminatory in it. Didn't say attracting men was a bad thing, just that some men would like to attract women as well.
It's a good ad, leave it alone.

oneweb · 20-05-2003 3:07pm

FFS, do people not read all of a thread before replying? :mad: I've taken it all back since.

I've since seen the ad many times and was admittedly too quick to pin it on the tagline. I was cranky and tired at the time and it was actually the scientific inaccuracy of the ad that pissed me off (pheromones attract the opposite sex) And no-one cares about ads being technically incorrect (happens all the time :rolleyes:)

That's it.

yellum · 20-05-2003 4:17pm

Locking thread.

Lynx, not for gay ppl.

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