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The Objectification Of Women By Axe Continues Unabated In 2013

I guess you have to tip your cap to them for their unswayed strategy.

I know, right? Now tell your friends!
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1. The UK

Print ad that ran during the last World Cup, in 2010.

It took Unilever brand Axe/Lynx only four years after launching in the U.S. to outsell, at the time, the next three men’s fragrances combined (Old Spice, Stetson, and Drakkar Noir).

And from the get-go, their subtle-as-an-axe ad message has been:
Boys, apply Axe to your bods and beautiful women will instantly want to suck and fuck the life out of you.

Of course, the Axe marketing folk will tell you that ‘it’s all tongue-in-cheek, not serious, girls are in the joke, etc.’

Sure sure. “Spray more, get more” (as close to a universal tagline that the brand has) doesn’t promise a thing.

But somehow, Unilever convinced an entire generation of alpha males that spraying their bodies with perfume is manly.

Axe’s ad work is, really, the only reason why Old Spice’s ads became as zany as they are.

Now, a review of the sleaziest, stupidest, most sexist Axe/Lynx ads of the last six years. leading up to a new spot that continues the exact same strategy.

2. United States (smell my fingers)

Look at that mooky Frat Boys: your favorite high-fivin’ dick-punching morning-after moment taken over by the chicks. How castrating.

RE: handjobs (what this commercial is very unsubtly referencing) — raise your hand, college/high school/grade school boy, if you’ve gotten a tugjob from a woman as attractive as these models while wearing Axe/Lynx.

3. Latin America (sexual assault)

Raise your hand, college/high school/grade school boy, if a stranger-woman as hot as this stranger-woman has let you commit a felony and fondle her tits.

4. Latin America (blowjob)

Yep, a blowjob commercial.

You know the drill — raise your hand, college/high school/grade school boy if you’ve gotten a blowjob from a woman-stranger as hot as this woman-stranger while soaked in Axe mook spray.

5. The UK (an “interactive” blowjob)

if you don’t want to watch it all the way through to get to your interactive instructions, just start the video, click the progress bar, and then press the 5,7,3, and 8 keys, in that order. The effect is called “shortcut scrubbing.”

6. Latin America (jiggling breasts)

THIS is the most accurate ad representation of the Axe-Wearing Male Demo.

7. The UK

Lynx erected this live girl billboard (or “thrillboard” as they called it) in London to promote the launch of its new Bullet pocket girlie-spray product.
The lass’s name is Lauren Budd. She’s known in the UK for being photographed while wearing bikinis. Said Budd: “I want British guys to be prepared for the ‘laydee’s’ day or night, 24/7, so they never miss an opportunity with new Lynx Bullet and Pocket Pulling Power.”
Yes, she said it just like that — “laydee’s”.

8. The UK

This ad, called “Brainy Girlfriend,” manages to be 360º sexist, insulting women and men and all of humanity.
And a shower gel is keeping him awake…?
BULLSHIT.

9. The UK (300 boobs bouncing in slow motion)

Axe (sometimes Lynx in the UK) says they’ve set an “official world record” by fitting 151 women and one man into one beach shower.

10. Brazil (Men Should Have ZERO women-they’d-like-to-fuck as friends)

In fact this Axe fragrance is called, “Ex-Friend.”
The Unilever brand posits that young men should just say ‘fuck female friends,’ and just fuck female friends.
The giant construction worker represents the boy’s suppressed id, I guess.
This spot would rake in the karma on reddit.

11. The Netherlands (you will fuck angels)

Not content with providing manboys with the power to fuck every hot woman on Earth, Axe claims that their smells will also cause angels to fall hard for you.

This stupid, unimaginative ad is a direct result of that cheesy bar pick-up line, you know which one.

12. Australia (banned ad)

Video available at: http://vimeo.com/29718830.

This slow-mo oiled jigglefest ostensibly served as a primer for the Rugby World Cup back in 2011.
Australia’s Advertising Standards Bureau banned it for “objectifying women” (NO).
One complaint read:
“I believe that this ad has been grossly influenced by the pornography industry and the hidden hype surrounding girl-on-girl pornography.” Hidden hype?

13. Singapore (SCORE MORE)

THE GAY MAN was dressed in PINK so’s you wouldn’t miss him.
Jesus.

14. Kenya (“Don’t Axe Me About Axe”)

The Kenyan office of Axe (the smell of desperation is worldwide) staged a charming fake protest outside of their business.

Note the orgasm sounds at the beginning of the video.

15. No, you weren’t seeing things. That is what the sign said.

16. United States (big disembodied boobs)

The spot, set in a bleak office complex features a bodiless head of male and a headless, legless set of tits — each supposedly representing what each sex recognizes first about the other.

Nothing sexist — or, incorrect — about that.

17. Online ad (Tumblr post from earlier this month)

As you can see, Axe’s social media team is quite happy to keep their unflinching objectification of women going strong.

And, of course, all coders are desperate lonely males.

18. New ad, United States (Rape Culture is funny)

Before it’s too late?

For what? Worldwide mass rape?

NO, silly, it’s a global warming joke.

Silly FemiNazi.

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    • halcyon

      Unilever is the same company that owns Dove and all of their pro-women ad campaigns. Which came first, the objectification or the pandering? These ads are generally disgusting, but then again, so is Axe so I guess that says something.

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    • Jason Bunch

      Thank you Copyranter for your daily outrage at the objectification of women. No, I mean it, thank you. Otherwise I would have never have seen any of these ads. I particularly liked the Rugby one.

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    • Ignis

      “You don’t use Axe to get the ladies…you use it to hang out with the BROS”

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    • clcoyle

      Wow. Buzzfeed got my click for showing me all of these sexy ads that I would have literally never seen. Who was selling sex and objectifying again?

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    • johns191

      Women should be flattered that Axe takes the trouble to make these commercials.

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    • Winchester

      Sure doesn’t stop Buzzfeed from taking their money though.
      http://www.buzzfeed.com/axe/14-pieces-of-indisputable-evidence-that-women-are-getting-ho

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      http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexrees/why-is-the-new-york-times-so-offended-by-shirtless-guys Please tell what the difference it? (And for the record, I think they’re both pretty trashy.)

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      This is just an ad for Axe disguised as a critique. This way Buzzfeed can get paid under the table to advertise that crap and still keep their typical left wing agenda image in place. Not fooling anyone.

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    • FifeBarney

      And Copyranter’s use of it to get clicks also continues unabated.

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