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Rory Sutherland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Now, I've got to confess about this.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

As a Brit, you're Canadian.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

The gender thing isn't quite the flashpoint in the UK or Canada as it is in the United States.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Did you know, for example...

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

that when it came out, I find this quite interesting.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

In Britain, we've had pantomime for 200 years.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

You know, men dressing up as women, you know, women dressing up as, attractive women dressing up as young boys, Shakespeare, da-da-da-da-da, you know, cross-dressing.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Some Like It Hot was a highly controversial film with all the studios in the United States.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

when it came out because it involved men dressing up as women.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Now, in the UK, my grandmother went to see it.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

She was a sort of conservative woman in a Welsh provincial town.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

It would not have occurred to her, literally, that there was anything controversial about this at all.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

It was simply funny.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Well, in this case, my argument was, okay, they hadn't made Dylan Mulvaney the face of Bud Light.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Right.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

And I think creating these cultural flashpoints through confected outrage is something to be disparaged when the rights do it and when the left do it.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

I think it's equally absurd because in any communication, you have to understand context and the intention behind

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

of the person producing the communication.

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

Now, in the case of Jaguar,

The Knowledge Project
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland

They wanted it to look unlike, how would I argue?