August 6, 2006

would you still love me

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[Another one of my new Stormhoek label designs.]

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27 Responses to “would you still love me”

  1. anon says:

    i hope your tar­get is men and not women. i’m a woman in research/tech and i find this a com­plete tur­noff. i’ve got a lot more impor­tant things on my mind than win­ging to my boy­friend about my weight like some pathe­tic ste­reotype. and no, actually, i’m thin.

  2. Andy says:

    Pure genius.

  3. Hugh MacLeod says:

    anon, fair enough, but when some­body begins a sen­tence with, “i’ve got a lot more impor­tant things on my mind than…”, of course, I never believe them.

  4. Napsterbater says:

    Because fif­teen minu­tes a day is far too much to ask to keep the sex life going strong.

  5. anon says:

    i see… so what you think this means is that i’m wri­ting a research paper that will get the next Nobel Prize, and hence i must be full of self-important bullshit. actually, thin­king about gro­ce­ries, my pro­ject at work, or wate­ring the plants, all come to mind as ‘more impor­tant’ than the type of ste­reoty­pi­cal winge-fest you are dred­ging with your car­toon. i like the majo­rity of your work, and i think most of it is really insight­ful, but i’m gues­sing that the women you know (not to men­tion some of the men, from the looks of it) must the sha­llo­west bitches on earth. ick. and guys, if you relate to this car­toon, then your woman needs to get a backbone.

  6. anon says:

    by the way, before we got off topic, my point was that i hope that this wine is not tar­ge­ting towards women, and i stand by that. will the female geeks in sili­con valley buy a wine with a sad offen­sive ste­reotype on it? will the friends, girl­friends, wives of said geeks be happy to see this on their table? i think not. why take something like wine, that almost ever­yone can appre­ciate, and then stick a label on it that will surely alie­nate a siza­ble frac­tion of 50% of the popu­la­tion of earth? it doesn’t gell for me, hugh. i liked the other labels. not this one.

  7. Hugh MacLeod says:

    well, i appre­ciate your can­dor, anon, thanks. and yeah, some valid points.
    of course, another female com­men­ter, Susan Get­good said, “I sus­pect the “fat” one will reso­nate with all sorts of buyers.“
    and she chose not to remain anony­mous ;-)

  8. I guess this com­ment thread goes to the heart of what makes blog­ging great…honest opi­nion about an idea that has been put out there to test opi­nion!!
    Can’t say fai­rer than that!

  9. if it got anon tal­king it works — as they say there no such thing as bad publi­city.
    I can see peo­ple saying ‘hey have you seen that wine with those strong com­ment car­toons ?’ — now that makes peo­ple lis­ten and they’ll most likely go off to see what all the fuss about.

  10. jon kudelka says:

    Car­toon cha­rac­ters need to be well-rounded peo­ple with backs­to­ries and empathy for their fellow car­toon cha­rac­ters, not ste­reoty­pi­cal, two-dimensional scrawls like in, for ins­tance, car­toons.
    …well, at least pick a ste­reotype that can’t fight back.

  11. Hugh MacLeod says:

    Thanks for the advice, Jon ;-)

  12. Kathy Sierra says:

    I love it ; )

  13. onanonanon says:

    Anon, I think the point is that you clearly don’t have more impor­tant things on your mind if you feel com­pe­lled to com­ment (at length) on something as rela­ti­vely unim­por­tant (sorry, Hugh) as this.

  14. Nia says:

    inte­res­ting com­ments; I didn’t found the car­toon offen­sive at all, even though I can be a very humour­less femi­nist at times.

  15. Patrick says:

    Made me smile; not sure it would make me buy the bottle. That said, Stormhoek is about the only wine out there I, a non-oenophile, know that has a “well-rounded back story” and would get me tal­king about it were it to appear on the table.
    (Apo­lo­gies for the man­gled gram­mar — I’ve wor­ked on it but it ain’t improving).

  16. Andy says:

    Anon, chill out…have a glass of wine, relax, let all that anger, frus­tra­tion and impo­tent rage wash away ;-)
    It’s a funny car­toon which I iden­tify with, and so do a lot of peo­ple.
    It’s witty and obser­vant, and totally sums up the moment of utter dread that goes through a guy’s brain when a girl asks a ques­tion which puts you squa­rely bet­ween the devil and the deep blue sea.
    It’s prac­ti­cally a zen car­toon, a veri­ta­ble haiku of sim­pli­city and truth.
    All my female friends found it hila­rious. Even the ‘cur­va­ceous’ ones!
    it may not be poli­ti­cally correct, but its true!

  17. deannie says:

    I totally crac­ked up when I saw this. Yup, been there done that and am glad I can just laugh at myself now. Hugh, keep just doing what you are doing.

  18. helena says:

    Well I must admit it would make me pick up the bottle and from pic­king up the bottle to put­ting it in the bas­ket is (as has already been men­tio­ned) but a short step. I thought it was hila­rious too (I loved the “sud­denly her life…” car­toon too) Of course (as all women know) if you have to ask the ques­tion — then you already know the ans­wers going to be a no! (It’s the exact reverse of the “does my bum look big in this?” ques­tion which as every woman also knows — if you have to ask — then the ans­wers an une­qui­vo­ca­ble yes!)

  19. Katerina says:

    That’s really true. My boy­friend told me the same way the other day actually.

  20. Hugh MacLeod says:

    Is it just me, or is there nothing more ste­reoty­pi­cal than peo­ple who claim they don’t fit into any stereotype?

  21. llywrch says:

    But what if one is just like the fellow in the movie who, when told that he was an inid­vi­dual & dif­fe­rent from ever­yone else, strongly pro­tes­ted, “Well, I’m not!“
    Geoff

  22. iphimeda says:

    Again, funny. But before you print this on the label/bottle, think of how much of the per­cen­tage of your future buyers suf­fers from overweight/being righ­tout horri­ble fat? =d

  23. Asma says:

    Hehehe … cute

  24. momotaz says:

    i ove this because it reminds me of my aunt shes fat bt her has­ba­ned dont relize it!!!!!!!! lollollollollollollollollolololol;ololololololololololololololololol0ooloolololololololololololololololololololololo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  25. Princess Tracey says:

    Exce­llent. so what if it is a ste­reotype, its funny and it hap­pens. Come on admit it, ever­yone of us has asked ‘do i look fat in this?’ etc etc and you can see your part­ners face drop lol. Skinny girls say it too so its not just tar­ge­ting fat peo­ple.
    Also anon, it does not make me sha­llow just cos i ask it!!!

  26. kirran says:

    hi,
    i would not at all love you if you were fat
    bye
    kirran
    ps
    write to me.

  27. Douglas O'Toole says:

    I like fat girls. They’re too chubby to mess with me. They do everything I say.