All I can say, is AMEN Brother!!! You hit the nail on the head! I am going to avoid ever buying Nordstrom products. I figure when I have bought enough shoes to cover the replacement cost of that Cadillac, I may buy some then. That could be a couple of centuries from now though. Phil Patterson Dave Stragand wrote: > My letter to Nordstrom about their commercials.... I'll forward their > response to the list. > > -Dave > > "After seeing your commercial where a classic car is crushed to "make > room for shoes", you can rest assured I will never purchase -anything- > from Nordstrom. > > "As a classic car buff, I am horrified at the thought. As a man, I am > embarassed that you can portray women so narrowly as being obsessed with > shoes. As a person, I am saddened that this represents a total lack of > communication between husband and wife. > > "If your commercial portrayed a man throwing out of of his wife's shoes > to "make room for classic cars", women's groups would be horrified and > shocked. Why is it appropriate to crush a car to make room for shoes? > Many men put in thousands of hours in a labor of love to restore > important automotive milestones. To show a woman crushing the car "to > make room for shoes" shows the woman as shallow, cold-hearted, > unfeeling, ignorant of the feelings of others, and trivial. This is > embarrassing to your company to say the least. To say it is highly > insulting to your target market of women is more the truth. > > "Show respect for the attitudes and opinions of men, and they will show > respect for the attitudes and opinions of women."
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