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Have Feminists Been Used To Exploit Women For Corporate Profit?[W:29]

Have Feminists Been Used By Corporations To Exploit Women For Profit?

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  • No

    Votes: 11 57.9%

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Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda, was famous for his Torches of Freedom march. Basically, Bernays was hired by the big tobacco companies to get women to smoke so the companies could increase their profits by selling women cigarettes. To accomplish this, Bernays got prominent women, who were involved in the campaign for women's rights, to organize a giant march of women cigarettes, as a symbol of their freedom.

The Museum of Public Relations

By the mid-1920s smoking had become commonplace in the United States and cigarette tobacco was the most popular form of tobacco consumption. At the same time women had just won the right to vote, widows were succeeding their husbands as governors of such states as Texas and Wyoming, and more were attending college and entering the workforce. While women seemed to be making great strides in certain areas, socially they still were not able to achieve the same equality as their male counterparts. Women were only permitted to smoke in the privacy of their own homes. Public opinion and certain legislation at the time did not permit women to smoke in public, and in 1922 a woman from New York City was arrested for lighting a cigarette on the street.

George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company and an eccentric businessman, recognized that an important part of his market was not being tapped into. Hill believed that cigarette sales would soar if he could entice more women to smoke in public.

In 1928 Hill hired Bernays to expand the sales of his Lucky Strike cigarettes. Recognizing that women were still riding high on the suffrage movement, Bernays used this as the basis for his new campaign. He consulted Dr. A.A. Brill, a psychoanalyst, to find the psychological basis for womens smoking. Dr. Brill determined that cigarettes which were usually equated with men, represented torches of freedom for women. The event caused a national stir and stories appeared in newspapers throughout the country. Though not doing away with the taboo completely, Bernays's efforts had a lasting effect on women smoking.

It appears that the rise in feminism can be traced to the desire by corporations to exploit women for profit.

So the question is, have feminists been used by corporations to exploit women to increase corporate profit?
 
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Has MildSteel been exploited as a shill by the mental health industry, as a fundraising initiative?
 
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the only feminists I have met were mean,fat,ugly,old, lesbian women with butch haircuts. A normal pretty woman doesn't have to be a feminist to get what she wants. All she has to do is smile.
 
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Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda, was famous for his Torches of Freedom march. Basically, Bernays was hired by the big tobacco companies to get women to smoke so the companies could increase their profits by selling women cigarettes. To accomplish this, Bernays got prominent women, who were involved in the campaign for women's rights, to organize a giant march of women cigarettes, as a symbol of their freedom.

The Museum of Public Relations



It appears that the rise in feminism can be traced to the desire by corporations to exploit women for profit.

So the question is, have feminists been used by corporations to exploit women to increase corporate profit?

So - after women's suffrage, winning the right to use birth control, and being able to become things such as governors of states such a s Texas.

Look at marketing history: corporations will exploit anyone and anything to make a few sales. It's called marketing.

I guarantee you just as many - if not more - products have been marketed to men to further sales.
 
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the only feminists I have met were mean,fat,ugly,old, lesbian women with butch haircuts. A normal pretty woman doesn't have to be a feminist to get what she wants. All she has to do is smile.

That's a reflection of you, not feminists. I think that's obvious. What kind of an educated, enlightened feminist would have anything to do with the likes of someone who thinks women only need smile to get what they want. Your attitude and ignorance is an effective repellent. Only the most repugnant (and ignorant) would bother with such crap. Consider yourself justly ostracized.
 
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So - after women's suffrage, winning the right to use birth control, and being able to become things such as governors of states such a s Texas.

Look at marketing history: corporations will exploit anyone and anything to make a few sales. It's called marketing.

I guarantee you just as many - if not more - products have been marketed to men to further sales.

There is no doubt that corporations target men. But you can't deny that corporations have used the issue of women's rights and used some of the leaders to exploit women for the sake of corporate profit.
 
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I want equal rights, and I will take a corporate check for saying so. I like money and freedom.
 
Re: Have Feminists Been Used To Exploit Women For Corporate Profit?

I want equal rights, and I will take a corporate check for saying so. I like money and freedom.

<--- Jelly
 
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There is no doubt that corporations target men. But you can't deny that corporations have used the issue of women's rights and used some of the leaders to exploit women for the sake of corporate profit.

Dude, everyone was exploited by cigarettes. What does this have to do with feminism?
 
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That's a reflection of you, not feminists. I think that's obvious. What kind of an educated, enlightened feminist would have anything to do with the likes of someone who thinks women only need smile to get what they want. Your attitude and ignorance is an effective repellent. Only the most repugnant (and ignorant) would bother with such crap. Consider yourself justly ostracized.
O I seen the women you date. You should get yourself tested.
 
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O I seen the women you date. You should get yourself tested.

Yeah, yeah... because she's black. We get it.
 
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Yeah, yeah... because she's black. We get it.
No because she's hideous.
 
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No because she's hideous.

Think so?


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She has a look of Bill Pullman.

I've no idea who that is. I added another pic, check it out.
 
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There is no doubt that corporations target men. But you can't deny that corporations have used the issue of women's rights and used some of the leaders to exploit women for the sake of corporate profit.

Of course they have.
Marketing 101, pretty much.

Minorities, majorities - everyone's been used. Even animals! Animals - can you believe it! They've used insects, too. The poor frog on Honey Smacks, that poor poor Tony the Tiger. Not to mention isn't only that poor tiger being exploited to sell sugary treats for 'cereal' but it's falsely representing a predatory species as being friendly.

In the wild: the real Tony the Tiger wants to eat the children for breakfast. (If he has an abscessed tooth, of course)
 
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I've no idea who that is. I added another pic, check it out.
There's some seriously cool **** there, brah.
 
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There's some seriously cool **** there, brah.

Think we're gonna see 24107's girlfriend?

*snicker*
 
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Think we're gonna see 24107's girlfriend?

*snicker*
lulz

I'm not touching that one.
 
Re: Have Feminists Been Used To Exploit Women For Corporate Profit?

Of course they have.
Marketing 101, pretty much.

Minorities, majorities - everyone's been used. Even animals! Animals - can you believe it! They've used insects, too. The poor frog on Honey Smacks, that poor poor Tony the Tiger. Not to mention isn't only that poor tiger being exploited to sell sugary treats for 'cereal' but it's falsely representing a predatory species as being friendly.

In the wild: the real Tony the Tiger wants to eat the children for breakfast. (If he has an abscessed tooth, of course)

I don't dispute corporations have targeted various groups. But I think your equation of Tony the Tiger, with women being specifically exploited for the sake of corporate profits, in the name of women's rights, is not valid.
 
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I'm not touching that one.

I think that's a given.

Watch, the kid will post a celebrity pic and be like "see, I get hot chicks too!"

:lamo
 
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I don't dispute corporations have targeted various groups. But I think your equation of Tony the Tiger, with women being specifically exploited for the sake of corporate profits, in the name of women's rights, is not valid.

*sigh*

I'm simply saying: if it will sell a product - then corporations will use it. No matter what it is.

Heck - just wait until they start advertising for the movie 50 Shades of Grey, appeals to Submissive will be seen much to the chagrin of the gung-ho
 
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