Steak Knife of Ogre Slaying

We have a large presentation due at the end of this week for my Japanese Marketing Class and yesterday we needed to give a preliminary presentation. The goal of this was for our peers can give us some hints on how to improve the presentations. I just got back the comments that my peers made, and some were helpful but I got two that were so idiotic that it just pissed me off.

The first was a tirade about the evils of Stem Cell Research (our product) which has nothing to do with our presentation. Throughout our presentation we reinforced the fact that ours is not an ethical debate but someone is intent on changing it into one. In addition this person cited a bunch of articles and basically told me that I was going to hell for presenting this subject. What any of these comments about myself going to Hell has to do with marketing I couldn’t figure it out.

The second was the following, “Public policy has nothing to do with marketing.” What a moronic statement that should automatically cause this person to flunk the class. According to this theory then I can have a huge market for Johnny Walker blended scotch in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan because there is no competition. Product testing, especially pharmaceutical products just don’t matter. Companies that are worried about censorship of their products are stupid because these polices don’t affect the market.

I swear there are some real fucking morons in the world, even in grad school.