Going back to mummy guns, it was nice of Dr. D to educate us that rape jokes are man jokes.
Okay, little experiment. Let’s replace all the women in the ‘fun man jokes’ with Dr. D’s or any of the aforementioned gentlemen’s mums.
Give it a minute.
Ooh, suddenly we see blood boiling and steam emancipating out of reddening ears/eyes/face.
Also, do notice how this whole exercise reiterates to an old but usually invisible argument that women are nothing, unless they are women of your household?
Wives, mothers, sisters, or daughters who are related to ‘you’ are the ones worthy of any respect, if one can call it that. Without these identities, anything said against a ‘woman’ is merely brushed aside as humour.
Funny, yes? Do you see us laughing?
But yes, like all those supporters of Table No. 5, we believe in freedom of expression as well, which is why we leave Table No. 5 to their opinions, whilst we dish out ours at Table No. 6.
If you feel these ads are sexist or are targeting men in any way possible, then remember, it’s all in your head.
Table No. 5 insisted that their entire campaign was developed and put out there under the context of humour.
Well meaning, appetite-inducing humour that, according to another genius laying out the marketing strategy of the place, noted,
Speaking from a purely Marketing point of view, this guy is a genius. He's gained lots of likes on his page, got media traction and thousands of people now know about his restaurant (and will probably go and visit it to see what the fuss is about)… A lot of single guys (which are never in scarcity anywhere in Pakistan honestly), will be visiting this place and this guy probably aims to target them as a niche market. I wouldn't be surprised in due time if he does change his strategy to a more gender neutral one once he attracts enough regular customers and once he feels he wants to expand his customer base to more females… Well played.
Right. Given that this was the poster’s personal take on the whole thing. However, the way Table No. 5 has responded to criticism by still endorsing said ads, calling the whole controversy a ‘round’ to be won or lost, does feed into this person’s views.
A restaurant that marketed its food at the expense of women’s sentimentalities so it could grab chauvinist men as its market; and there are hundreds of loyal customers who favour this.
We have to hand it to them. Realising who the target market was, aka chauvinists, Table No. 5 really did do a good job.
However, had their market been actual people with sane logical and fair minds, they might have come up with something nice like this:
Interestingly, and on an end note, many on the page seemed to bring up Jibran Nasir, contemplating how he would react to the entire nonsensical scenario. They believed he would ‘storm’ as he is one of the most feministfeminists of the country.
Yes, he is. And we’d love him or anyone else supporting us women. Who wouldn’t appreciate a man who stands up for women’s rights and their honour, demands respect for them and sees them as equal as human beings because they, in fact, are just that.
And if such a man had had the misfortune of walking into Table No. 5, he would have surely left disgusted!
Please, don’t hate us, meninists. We aren’t demeaning you. It’s all in your head.
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Going back to mummy guns, it was nice of Dr. D to educate us that rape jokes are man jokes.
Okay, little experiment. Let’s replace all the women in the ‘fun man jokes’ with Dr. D’s or any of the aforementioned gentlemen’s mums.
Give it a minute.
Ooh, suddenly we see blood boiling and steam emancipating out of reddening ears/eyes/face.
Also, do notice how this whole exercise reiterates to an old but usually invisible argument that women are nothing, unless they are women of your household?
Wives, mothers, sisters, or daughters who are related to ‘you’ are the ones worthy of any respect, if one can call it that. Without these identities, anything said against a ‘woman’ is merely brushed aside as humour.
Funny, yes? Do you see us laughing?
But yes, like all those supporters of Table No. 5, we believe in freedom of expression as well, which is why we leave Table No. 5 to their opinions, whilst we dish out ours at Table No. 6.
If you feel these ads are sexist or are targeting men in any way possible, then remember, it’s all in your head.
Table No. 5 insisted that their entire campaign was developed and put out there under the context of humour.
Well meaning, appetite-inducing humour that, according to another genius laying out the marketing strategy of the place, noted,
Speaking from a purely Marketing point of view, this guy is a genius. He's gained lots of likes on his page, got media traction and thousands of people now know about his restaurant (and will probably go and visit it to see what the fuss is about)… A lot of single guys (which are never in scarcity anywhere in Pakistan honestly), will be visiting this place and this guy probably aims to target them as a niche market. I wouldn't be surprised in due time if he does change his strategy to a more gender neutral one once he attracts enough regular customers and once he feels he wants to expand his customer base to more females… Well played.
Right. Given that this was the poster’s personal take on the whole thing. However, the way Table No. 5 has responded to criticism by still endorsing said ads, calling the whole controversy a ‘round’ to be won or lost, does feed into this person’s views.
A restaurant that marketed its food at the expense of women’s sentimentalities so it could grab chauvinist men as its market; and there are hundreds of loyal customers who favour this.
We have to hand it to them. Realising who the target market was, aka chauvinists, Table No. 5 really did do a good job.
However, had their market been actual people with sane logical and fair minds, they might have come up with something nice like this:
Interestingly, and on an end note, many on the page seemed to bring up Jibran Nasir, contemplating how he would react to the entire nonsensical scenario. They believed he would ‘storm’ as he is one of the most feministfeminists of the country.
Yes, he is. And we’d love him or anyone else supporting us women. Who wouldn’t appreciate a man who stands up for women’s rights and their honour, demands respect for them and sees them as equal as human beings because they, in fact, are just that.
And if such a man had had the misfortune of walking into Table No. 5, he would have surely left disgusted!
Please, don’t hate us, meninists. We aren’t demeaning you. It’s all in your head.
PRINT
Going back to mummy guns, it was nice of Dr. D to educate us that rape jokes are man jokes.
Okay, little experiment. Let’s replace all the women in the ‘fun man jokes’ with Dr. D’s or any of the aforementioned gentlemen’s mums.
Give it a minute.
Ooh, suddenly we see blood boiling and steam emancipating out of reddening ears/eyes/face.
Also, do notice how this whole exercise reiterates to an old but usually invisible argument that women are nothing, unless they are women of your household?
Wives, mothers, sisters, or daughters who are related to ‘you’ are the ones worthy of any respect, if one can call it that. Without these identities, anything said against a ‘woman’ is merely brushed aside as humour.
Funny, yes? Do you see us laughing?
But yes, like all those supporters of Table No. 5, we believe in freedom of expression as well, which is why we leave Table No. 5 to their opinions, whilst we dish out ours at Table No. 6.
If you feel these ads are sexist or are targeting men in any way possible, then remember, it’s all in your head.
Table No. 5 insisted that their entire campaign was developed and put out there under the context of humour.
Well meaning, appetite-inducing humour that, according to another genius laying out the marketing strategy of the place, noted,
Speaking from a purely Marketing point of view, this guy is a genius. He's gained lots of likes on his page, got media traction and thousands of people now know about his restaurant (and will probably go and visit it to see what the fuss is about)… A lot of single guys (which are never in scarcity anywhere in Pakistan honestly), will be visiting this place and this guy probably aims to target them as a niche market. I wouldn't be surprised in due time if he does change his strategy to a more gender neutral one once he attracts enough regular customers and once he feels he wants to expand his customer base to more females… Well played.
Right. Given that this was the poster’s personal take on the whole thing. However, the way Table No. 5 has responded to criticism by still endorsing said ads, calling the whole controversy a ‘round’ to be won or lost, does feed into this person’s views.
A restaurant that marketed its food at the expense of women’s sentimentalities so it could grab chauvinist men as its market; and there are hundreds of loyal customers who favour this.
We have to hand it to them. Realising who the target market was, aka chauvinists, Table No. 5 really did do a good job.
However, had their market been actual people with sane logical and fair minds, they might have come up with something nice like this:
Interestingly, and on an end note, many on the page seemed to bring up Jibran Nasir, contemplating how he would react to the entire nonsensical scenario. They believed he would ‘storm’ as he is one of the most feministfeminists of the country.
Yes, he is. And we’d love him or anyone else supporting us women. Who wouldn’t appreciate a man who stands up for women’s rights and their honour, demands respect for them and sees them as equal as human beings because they, in fact, are just that.
And if such a man had had the misfortune of walking into Table No. 5, he would have surely left disgusted!
Please, don’t hate us, meninists. We aren’t demeaning you. It’s all in your head.
