I mean...there are arrows...
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and there are arrows made to look like penises:
(Albeit penises which lean towards Peyronie's disease.)
The FedEx arrow doesn't look like a penis:
And Cialis and Viagra don't even have arrows or penises in their logos...which seems a bit short-sighted to me:
[Free suggestions for Cialis and Viagra: Try these on for size. No pun intended.
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It's all 'bout that arrow, 'bout that arrow, no tremble.
So why would Amazon want to shove a penis in your face?
Well, some people like that kind of thing, of course. So there's that. * But often advertising seems to work on the premise that if they can catch your attention, it doesn't matter if you like it or not. Your attention is caught, an impression is made, and all of a sudden there's an arrow sinking into your O every time you turn around. And since (for the moment at least, but I think the North Wall is starting to show some damage from the Barbarian Catapult Attack) there are limits on what an advertiser can do vis-à-vis penises), the Amazon folks decided to go for the stylized arrow...which also gives them some plausible deniability...not to mention the "You have a dirty mind!" defense.
Well. I am still shunning Amazon. No purchases since late December 2020. I buy my used books from Better World Books, Thrift Books, and eBay. I buy other stuff from Walmart, which lets you use PayPal at checkout. There are some things I miss which I could easily buy from Amazon, and it may come to that some day, but I'm going to hold out as long as I can. And if I do give in, I'm going to try to do it without giving them my credit card information. They've proven to me that they don't give a shit about my security, so they don't get the thousands of dollars I used to spend every year on their shit.
I don't want their gonorrhea. **
* Not that there's anything wrong with that.
** Lil Wayne, in case you missed that.
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