As some of you are aware, I have been happily un-single since Saturday evening. (If you haven't seen the Twitter feed in the right-hand corner of your page, you've probably heard me squeaking and jumping around in ecstasy.) My Facebook status changed on Saturday to say "in a relationship". All well and normal, no?
And as those of us who use Facebook know, Facebok tailors their ads to best suit the person viewing them. (Not, of course, that the ads are accurate. I still get advertisements for prom dresses and graduation rentals, and I graduated high school in 2009. Maybe that's 'cos quite a few of my Facebook friends are still high schoolers...) Recently, I've seen plenty of Head & Shoulders ads on my sidebar, featuring a chance to win prizes or some such nonsense.
As of Sunday morning, those ads changed to this...
Seriously?
So, either I'm set to be a very bad girlfriend without this Alyson Hannigan (whom I've not even heard of before these ads appeared on my Facebook sidebar, although Dan says she's from the TV show How I Met Your Mother), or I'm to be a very bad girlfriend without Head & Shoulders shampoo and conditioner. If this ad is correct, then I'm going to best make my boyfriend happy if I switch to this brand. Because I won't be able to be a good girlfriend any other way.
I happen to prefer Herbal Essences, thank you very much. And Dan has said he doesn't care what I use on my hair, as long as I use SOMEthing. With my OCD tendencies, that won't be difficult for me to manage.
On that note, what exactly constitutes a "good girlfriend"? My classmate Kevin (who happens to be a mutual friend of both myself and Dan) is of the thought that a good boy/girlfriend, in very general terms, is someone who loves their counterpart as best as they know how, and is more honest and open with that person than with others. I agree with him on that.
Yet to hear H&S tell it, a good girlfriend (besides obviously using their hair products), is materialistic, focusing on making themselves look "pretty" for their male counterpart so they can be the trophy girlfriend. There are other factors, of course, depending on the personal preferences of the guys in question, but it seems that a large part of this in North American culture is based largely on beauty. (Depending on the group one talks to, being "easy" and meekly submissive are bonuses.)
Right, yes. Because I know so many girls whose sole focus is on being the perfect trophy girlfriend/wife for their guys. Who defines a "good girlfriend", anyway? The boyfriend in question. Do his criteria match the rest of society's? I rather doubt it.
No comments:
Post a Comment