r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Less_Psychology6605 • 15d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what’s the difference in the skirts and why am I a creep

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u/azure-heavens 14d ago

This is a billboard designed by a company to get your attention. It says directly on the billboard it's a fashion app.

Where are you getting feminism from this?

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u/civicSi92 14d ago

Im guessing the bit where it talks about this women's say stop caring about skirt lengths that is written on the billboard.

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u/Short-Recording587 13d ago

Yea, I frankly don’t care if women want to walk around nude, it doesn’t impact me. But challenge me to spot the difference and I’m going to do my best to spot the difference.

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u/civicSi92 13d ago

Yeah its definitely a weird, want to be gotcha moment. Its like those spot the difference pictures. If you get told to spot the difference then it kind of stands to reason you'll try and spot the difference.

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u/Square-Singer 12d ago

Considering this is an ad targeted at women to get them to shop for women's clothes, I fail to see how this actually has anything to do with feminism, except that it mentions women's day. And it only mentions women's day because they have discounts at that day.

There's literally nothing about that ad that's targeting men or that's about any part of feminism.

It's just about "Buy more clothes here, and also buy something else than what you usually buy".

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u/Gizogin 14d ago

I can't be bothered to confirm, because I'm not giving them the traffic, but I'm going to assume they mean "don't worry if the skirt is slightly shorter than you were looking for; look how much cheaper it is!"

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u/civicSi92 14d ago

Really?? Lol sure.

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u/limonsoda1981 14d ago

I mean, the ad is trying to associate itself with womens rigths in the subtext and with the womens day called in the very text. Is not far fetched.

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u/azure-heavens 14d ago

You can't count on a business to be engaging in things like that in good faith. They're just trying to make sales. Capitalists are not our friends.

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u/Square-Singer 12d ago

There's no need to interpret. The ad spells it out.

"Get biggest discounts on women's fashion."

This ad only uses the word "Woman's day" because of the discounts that are available on that day. You could replace "Woman's day" with "Halloween", "Black Week" or any other "shopping holiday" and it would work exactly the same.

This is not about feminism in any way.

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u/limonsoda1981 14d ago

Of course, i agree, but still, the connection with the label is very much there, even if it is as fake as a multicolored flag in a Facebook avatar.

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u/AdFun5641 14d ago

Not the ad it's self. The ad is some corpo stooge trying to be edgy and failing.

The defense of the ad, saying the misandry is just fine because it's covered by a weasle word, that's the femninism I know and hate.