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Colbert's Armpit Activism

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Wednesday night's "Colbert Report" featured his popular segment, "The Word," and this time its target was Unilever, the maker of Dove products for women. The company recently released the "Go Sleeveless" stick, which supposedly helps women improve the look and feel of their armpits. Great.

 

According to Colbert, women have had the distinct pleasure of being "Madison Avenue's experimental lab rats," for decades, and "Go Sleeveless" is just another in a long line of products aimed at capitalizing on female insecurities.

 

Colbert went on to praise Unilever's brilliant marketing strategy of inventing a problem as well as the solution to it:

 

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