Nope, I'm not gonna hire you. Yep, I know you know better.

Bad news for those thinking that advertising industry has something to do with art and/or common good: advertising IS all fun & games. One might occasionally get a chance to work on a charity(and that is, frankly, quite boring), but mostly, it's just dancing cereal boxes and famous landmarks made out of chocolate/toilet paper/insert a product.

Advertising is the world of childish adults with a bloated sense of entitlement playing god, thinking that someone actually cares about the choice of font or size of a pack shot. You know what would happen if one day all the advertising magically disappeared? Nothing. Nobody would give a rat's ass. Actually, one might argue that the world would be a much better place without adverts. Needless to say how watching TV would become a bazillion times more enjoyable.

People outside the advertising world might not think about all this, but if you work in the industry and after reading this you feel offended and want to punch me in the face, then well, congratulations my friend, you're in denial.

I, myself, happen to be an adult with a bloated sense of entitlement, wanting to work in advertising. But, unfortunately for me, I also happen to have a vagina, which is a huge disadvantage unless you want to be 85% of all the shoppers in the world. Obviously, there is a chunky portion of mostly WASP males, buying Ferraris and yachts and boob job gift cards, but guess who shops for loo rolls and Richmond sausages for them? Correct. Their mums and wives and sisters, mostly(but not necessarily) with vaginas. So, wouldn't it be brutally logical to assume that someone somewhere in the world would actually consider including women in the decision making process that later results in horrible adverts made for FMCGs? Nope. Turns out, WASP males are only good at everything else, but sharing their toys. Because, you know, responsibilities of an ad man are too tough for a fragile female body. Men and only men are allowed to patronizingly assume what's gonna sell most tampons and low fat yogurt. It's a boys only playground. Period(ha). 

And yeah, we all know that 'someone' who is a woman and works in advertising, but exception proves the rule. Even they, we were told, "tend to choose to leave at around 25". Choice. Nice to have it, huh? Good to know you're enjoying it bitch, it's been almost a fucking century since we've given it to you. 

P.S. Fun Fact: did you know what ad men lovingly like to call an old style ad of their own creation, with two women in it? 

Two cunts in the kitchen.

Yep.

You have a nice day too.


Ana