Miller Lite's Argument

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In the Miller Lite “Man Up” commercial, I see there was an overlap between man’s man and man’s woman. At the beginning, the main male character came over to the bar and asked for a bottle of beer. He was good-looking, maybe he was a businessman, and had a nice muscle body. He told the bartender that he didn’t care the taste of beer. After that, the bartender, who was beautiful and attractive, gave him a Miller Lite beer and teased him about he was wearing a purse. The meaning of her action was that a man would care about the taste and know how to select a beer. In addition, caring a purse made him more feminine, although he explained it was just a carry-on bag, not a woman’s purse. Therefore, that showed the man’s woman. However, after that,

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