This is the problem: You're not a bag of M&Ms. The distribution of colours in a bag of M&Ms is random, while there are all sorts of selection factors that go into the sample of people you're describing. You are more likely to know people like you. You might even influence the people in your population in certain ways.…

It's the stupidest marketing strategy, honestly. I can't imagine what they were thinking. It's not going to make men want to buy the console any more (especially ones who object to being characterized as whiny man-children) and it's potentially going to piss off their female audience. It's lose-lose.

But they don't target sexuality as a whole, they specifically target the expression of female sexuality, which is her point.

Let's just let your beloved market forces take care of it, shall we? Microsoft have obviously realized that a non-insignificant portion of their market are a) women and b) men who don't like being characterised as whiny man-children, and they've changed the default options on the letter.

Yep, anecdotal, and thus worthless. My experience is totally different. I'm a female console gamer, and I know many others. Who probably won't be buying an XBone now, thanks to this "marketing strategy".

More of a semantic error, surely?

I don't think "corollary" means what you think it means. Maybe "equivalency"?

If you believe that's what Microsoft was getting at, you're even dumber than your screen name would suggest.

A little disingenuous.

Sure, sweetie, you're as pretty as you are smart and good at grammar.

Pretty clever of you to bypass the parental controls!

Is Mommy home, sweetie? Can you put Mommy on?

I'm not entirely sure that Microsoft's marketing strategies are sophisticated enough to encompass satire, especially when I recall how they "handled" the announcement debacle.

I picture gay men most of the time too!

Oh wait, just noticed all the missing apostrophes. Maybe you're a) not b) after all.

I think I would more readily associate it with women than men (as recipients), unless it's being used condescendingly ("Steve, honey, no"). But I'm not going to argue for it, because really I don't know.

In the context of "knitting" and playing "arcade games" and being called "beautiful" and wanting to phone their sisters, yes.

Are you so a) dumb or b) disingenuous that you can't see that the original version of this ad was aimed squarely at dudes, casting women as shrewish, ballbusting impediments to happiness?

Yes, we do.

That I managed to decipher the meaning doesn't indicate that the meaning was clear.