Knowing What You Don't Like.
I heard it suggested that women like Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex & The City all the more because men cannot fathom why. I don't know if that's true or not but my immediate reaction was to suggest flippantly that it was a default position resulting from the fact that they didn't want to be identified via the other characters as primarily either overtly promiscuous, frigid or subservient.
Perhaps that's nonsense. I'm not a woman after all. But just as great marketing is all about removing the reasons not to buy your product/service, perhaps it's worth thinking how your product/service allows customers to defines themselves in terms of what they are not.
posted by john dodds @ 10:41 AM
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I tend to think many women love Sarah Jessica Parker because she has legs to die for and carries off amazing looks that deep down every woman wishes they had the balls to carry off. Many women think they have a SJP trapped deep inside them, optimistically. She's also FUN. A under-rated word. And she gets the men we either love, or love to hate.
I hadn't noticed the legs, but agree with you about the F word. As for men you love to hate, what's that all about?
It's all about the man-crush.
Women identify with her simply because she's a balanced character at the end of the day, something the others are not if you ask me. That, fun, legs, anything else you want fits in too in my opinion.
Well that "something others are not" fits my basic thesis so I have to say that is a great comemnt Andrea.
In our woman universe, we call every other character apart from Carrie hysterical so there you have it, what hysterical woman wants to be called that? :D No one! :D
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