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  • Ok I realise that I did not put the previous comment in the friendliest form, sorry about that !

    Your point is that the marketing choice of using beautiful women is dictated by the sellers’ preferences rather that the buyers’ one. In the apparent absence of evidence to support either hypothesis, you are willing to favor the former one.

    What I haven’t said explicitly yet is that there is one argument that makes me find the latter one more likely in the absence of further evidence : the businesses that make their marketing choices based on customers’ preferences will tend to survive more. kn our capitalist society, it makes sense to me.

    You gave one counter-example that is not strong enough to change my opinion as it can also be explained with the firm having poorly evaluated what their target audience was. They do say in the article that more women started buying tyres after the marketing change, which is indeed not the audience targeted with the sexy-girl ad.

    It does however a good job at disproving the affirmation “because everyone regardless of gender and age are biologically conditioned to look at them.” to which you were originally replying, and I disagree with that affirmation as well. I just think your conclusion goes too far i the other direction, in the absence of further evidence.






  • the comment that ‘upset’ me in the context you are asking is the one where the guy calls me butthurt for disagreeing with his opinion

    This is not in the context they were asking though, this happened as a response to your rant.
    What some of us would want to have is documented examples of what caused you to write this post.

    In a comment you complained about nobody having “shared their experience in a meaningful way”, but you haven’t shared anything concrete either.

    In the post you said:

    I remember we could still have discussions about controversial topics without things getting ugly

    Yet to me things do not seem to have gotten ugly when you expressed a very controversial opinion in the “taliban” post. This is were concrete examples would help understanding your point.

    Some users did disrepect you about this issue in this post, and I definitely do not support that ! In the end, you are a teen getting bullied (probably by adults) for having an opinion, and this is wrong no matter how bad the opinion is.





  • From (the French-speaking part of) Belgium, 6 years of primary and 6 years of secondary. Nothing inbetween as that’s already 12 years. Secondary usually happens within the same school although there are two divisions within it:
    - programs are designed for three cycles (“degrés”) of two years (D1, D2, D3)
    - teacher’s diploma follow a division in two “degrés” of three years : teachers for the inferior one (DI) have a bachelor and teachers for the superior one have a master. In the near future the diploma’s will change but the distiction is mostly going to stay

    In this latter sense, “inferior secondary” would be the equivalent to middle school and “superior secondary” the one for high school, although as I have explained it is not as separated as in the US, Italy, France or others. As someone who teach in the superior secondary “degré”, I do usually introduce myself as a high-school teacher when talking to people from other countries.