{"id":51666,"date":"2021-12-16T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/graphic-design-en\/adopte-un-mec-logo-sexiste-pouvoir-aux-femmes"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T08:20:37","slug":"adopte-un-mec-new-logo-dating-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/en\/logo-news\/adopte-un-mec-new-logo-dating-apps","title":{"rendered":"adopte un mec: a new logo for the dating app"},"content":{"rendered":"
adopte un mec <\/strong>(\"adopt a guy\"), the dating site that \"empowers women\", has recently released a new advertising campaign and, it seems, a new name-logo. \"adopte un mec\" becomes more simply \"adopte\", and the famous logo with the pictogram of a woman putting a man in her shopping cart disappears. Is this a strategy to be more inclusive, or just a blindfold? Until now, adopte un mec has always surfed on sexist clich\u00e9s...<\/p>\n The first thing that jumps out is the shortening of the name, which is more inclusive and to the point. Adopt a guy, adopt a girl, adopt whoever you want. We will come back later in the article on this aspect. At this point, let's look at the verbal and visual branding.<\/p>\n This shortening of the name is typically an apocope, a figure of speech that consists of removing the end of a word, as in \"auto\" instead of \"automobile\". The apocope allows to get closer to the common language. This results in a familiar feel, as with a diminutive (e.g., \"Tom\" instead of \"Thomas\"). In short, it sends the signal that it has entered our daily lives.<\/p>\n The logo, composed only of a linear typography (futura-black type), refers to the trend of blanding<\/strong>, a term that hijacks the word branding to evoke the idea of maximum purification of the visual codes of the brand. The message behind this phenomenon is to assert that the brand will seduce by the mere power of the product it sells and that it is sufficiently well known to no longer need to distinguish itself from the competition.<\/p>\n No more need to illustrate, no more need for pictograms or other words, only \"adopte\" would be enough to qualify the brand, as a will to affirm their notoriety and to say \"look, we are also in the big league\".\u00a0Whether this is legitimate or calculated remains to be seen: by suggesting that we are recognized, we become recognized.<\/p>\n When it was launched, the website adopteunmec.com<\/strong><\/a>, imagined by two men in 2007<\/strong>, reversed the trend of dating sites where men were more numerous than women, by proposing a paid version for men and a free version for women, in order to re-establish parity and a more \"secure\" space for women. The principle limits the access to \"opportunists\", skimming at the same time the \"low-end products\", that is to say, those who can't afford it. Everything is based on this system where women consume men in a giant digital supermarket<\/strong>. The choice is between redheads, bearded men, ninjas, shy or romantic, labelled and proposed in a catalog as \"regional products\" or \"new collection\".<\/p>\n The adopte un mec picto-logo speaks for itself: the woman consumes male and, as the shopping cart indicates, we are talking about mass consumption. The logo adopte un mec symbolizes the female madness of shopping (clich\u00e9), choice, instant pleasure, the financially independent woman who can spend without thinking and make her own choices<\/strong> (or rather get lost in the illusion of materialism, but we'll come back to that later). We're right in the middle of Sex and the City where Carrie and her friends roam the city in search of new outfits and conquests!<\/p>\n On the moodboard of the creative of adopte un mec in 2012<\/strong>, we could have found this:<\/p>\n Thomas Pawlowski, marketing director, says in 2012 that adopte un mec is a feminist site\u00a0<\/strong>(in an\u00a0interview streetpress<\/a>): \"Not in the sense of 'we have hair under our arms and we burn our bras'. No, it's the woman who works, who is a careerist, who parties with her girlfriends and who can fuck a guy one night if she wants to, without being judged. The modern woman. Feminism is above all about equality between men and women. Here, guys pay to approach girls like princesses: it's a bit of a \"gentlemen\" clich\u00e9...<\/strong>\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So: the equality on which adopte un mec's communication is based is an equality between men and women, BUT without hair or violent behavior on the part of women (it's not very cute and it doesn't make you want to), with preferential treatment, because they don't pay (although they earn their living), who are considered as princesses to be seduced with a seducer's behavior (where the man, therefore, always has the power). Good! I think we don't all have the same conception of the word feminist...<\/strong><\/p>\n The idea could be good if it didn't lack a sense of humour (although the site claims that it should be taken that way). Unfortunately, if the site is successful and at first sight wants to be committed to women, all its strategy, on the contrary, is well and truly based on sexist and binary clich\u00e9s<\/strong> (woman vs. man) where the woman is an archetype: spendthrift, consumerist, and shopping fanatic. Men, on the other hand, are only consumer goods, men-objects. They all present themselves in their best light, with marketing strategies and photos to better sell themselves at the top of the shelves. Well, we already knew that.<\/p>\n The brand's positioning has evolved over time, always surfing on clich\u00e9s though<\/strong>. During the launch campaign, adopte un mec presents giant boxes of Ken, with real men inside, \"man-objects to cuddle\" (the slogan at the time). In 2012 and 2013, we see ads to \"adopt a redhead and see life in orange\", a frozen food section where \"the oldest go first\" and finally muscular men with animals, mentioning the possibility of adopting an \"anim\u00e2le\".<\/p>\n If it can be funny to divert clich\u00e9s, and that this kind of communication has the merit to go out of the codes and to surprise, these are all the more doubtful that they stigmatize physical characteristics and sustains the myth of the virility<\/strong> (which, we know, contributes to lock the man in a straitjacket of social representation<\/a>)<\/p>\n We understand then that the aim of the site is not to emancipate the female gender, but rather to maintain her (unconsciously) in her position, by pretending to reverse the roles.<\/strong> When she is invited to play dolls with a man to realize her fantasies, she is infantilized: the little girl continues her games as an adult and there is no equal relationship, just a dominant-dominated inversion.<\/p>\n As for the 2016 campaign, it showed a woman (a fine hand with a perfect manicure) in a candy store choosing a sweet treat, between Lilliputian man and candy.<\/p>\n We continue on the clich\u00e9s: the woman is vain and likes pink. The woman is greedy \/ a man-eater. The man gives her pleasure without her having to lift a finger. Far from empowering women, she is left to wallow in socially induced stereotypes<\/strong>. So yes, the woman here is not the object of desire as we are used to see in advertisements, but making her the predator on a poster is not enough to reverse the social reality!<\/p>\n In 2018, the commercial shows a couple kissing in space, \"a breath of fresh air and love\" as the co-founder states. Goodbye frantic shopping, emotions are now at the heart of adopte-un-mec's strategy: we no longer come here just for one-night stands, but also to create lasting relationships<\/strong>. Another campaign will take us into the chemical and epidermal reaction of a kiss.<\/p>\n More recently, it's the female characters in fairy tales who have rewritten history \"to their advantage\". As the Adopte-un-mec ad campaign page states<\/a>, \"Adopte Princesses break with the gender stereotypes that made them fragile and passive<\/strong>. Still dressed in their sumptuous gowns, they are now free to act and not hesitate to protect their sweet prince.\" If protecting is mothering, you'd have to explain to me how that liberates the woman?<\/p>\n The woman is always dependent on the systemic male norm of society:<\/strong> she must remain beautiful in her \"sumptuous dress\", her title of princess always makes her dependent on the prince, and, even if she is the one who chooses, she does not free herself from the rules of the game of seduction nor from the gender codes that society induces...<\/p>\n In 2021, adopte un mec unveils its latest campaign and new name-logo<\/strong>, showing a couple in close-up ready to kiss and sometimes holding each other by the throat, flanked by an italicized \"adopte\" in white on a red background. As with any change of name and logo, this in principle announces a significant change of strategy within the company. The turnaround we were expecting towards more equality?<\/p>\n The new advertising campaign<\/strong>\u00a0seems to be double: on the one hand, there are images of couples under a red filter and the annotation \"adopte\", on the other hand, text such as \"you seal my life with the red wax of a kiss\", or \"your kisses make the light and the colors of the universe tremble\" without image and alternating italic and roman text, which remind us of love poems of the nineteenth century... written however with a little less panache than Baudelaire.<\/p>\n As if to unite the images and the text - which at first glance have little in common except for the color and the logo - we find on the site and probably on TV or in the cinema a sensual advertising film<\/a> with a red desire filter, which reminds us of velvet boudoirs and courtesans...<\/strong> and the sensuality of a dangerous embrace.<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/a> Refrigerator advertising in the 1950s \/ Saez album: j'accuse \/ Color essence add by helene curtis \/ Sex and the City \/ FACTS OF LIFE 2, Pippo Lionni, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 2001 \/ beaute-directe.com screenshot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Adopte 2021 campaign seen in the subway<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n