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adjl posted...

And those aren't discriminatory marketing practices. They target people based on their understanding of the products, not anything else. Targeting people who don't understand what matters in toiletries, charging them for pointless stuff? That's fair game. Specifically targeting a subgroup of people within that demographic and aiming to have them pay more for literally no reason? Not so much, because that's discriminatory.

Lol they operate on the same fucking principle. They only work when their customer is ignorant. No, it's not discrimination because it's colored pink.

adjl posted...

Even ignoring the highly questionable logic of blaming a scam's victim instead of the one perpetrating the scam, the issue here isn't that consumers in general need to educate themselves to avoid falling for marketing campaigns. It's that certain consumers need to slough through more lies than others. I certainly don't expect female-targeted toiletries to be held to a higher standard of advertising honesty than others. I just don't think it's right for them to be held to a lower standard.

First of all, calling them scam victims is tantamount to insanity.

Second of all, yes the issue absolutely is that consumers should educate themselves. When the amount of 'education' that's required is literally just taking a cheap item and an expensive item and putting them side by side to say, "Oh, the ingredients are the same", yeah I think we can safely place that onus on the fucking 'victims' lol.

adjl posted...

Also, again, the Pink Tax is far from the only example of discriminatory marketing practices. It's no less scummy when companies manipulate men into paying more for the same thing (though there aren't nearly as many examples of that). That doesn't make the Pink Tax okay, though. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Who cares if it's scummy? Vote with your dollar. Tell Herbal Essences that their bullshit doesn't work by not buying it.

The only reason this kind of advertising works on women and not on men, at least in the personal care aisle, is because men don't care. Typically men just buy whatever happens to be in their vicinity, looks like it'll work, and is cheap.

Shit, half the time I shampoo using a bar of soap because I don't give a fuck.

If this was half the issue you pretend it is then more people would stop buying the shit and a better/cheaper product would come along.
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