Dr Pepper Ten is a new 10-calorie soft drink launched by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, targeting men with a marketing campaign that explicitly states "It's not for women." This product aims to attract male consumers who typically avoid diet drinks perceived as unmasculine. Unlike Diet Dr Pepper, Ten contains calories and sugar, and features a rugged packaging design. The discussion reveals mixed reactions to the marketing strategy, with some finding it clever while others criticize it as reinforcing gender stereotypes. Participants express their beverage preferences, highlighting a trend towards gender-specific marketing in the beverage industry. The conversation also touches on the absurdity of associating masculinity with calorie counts in drinks and the broader implications of gendered marketing. Overall, the thread reflects on societal perceptions of masculinity and the complexities of consumer behavior regarding soft drinks.
We may consider an X or Z as a sign of complex behaviors being performed by a female or a homosexual. People in different societies have different views about what constitutes their own judgment towards femininity or masculinity. In some culture, many people would feel a little bad to sit next to a man in a restaurant who is drinking a glass of colorful juices, especially the colors for girls [pink or red], with his legs crossed. Yet in others, they may in a happy mood meet and interact with others wearing pink suits or girlish T-shirts as it's indifferent to them. The differences are caused by knowledge differences, aren't they ? Gender racists may ignorantly wonder where gayness in human beings comes from, open-minded people will believe that human differences are a sign of diversity and are ready to accept everything, while the biologists might take it that homosexuality can't separate itself from social pressures as a special case of genetic diversity and human brain evolution in general.