PC ping to the Today Show ping list.
I barely watch tv, and since I know in real life that white men are not dumb, I don't take it personally.
If this was reversed those militant feminists would be all over it but because it's a guy and a white guy at that, no one cares.
You are so right - this trend has been bothering me for several years - the Wonder Bread ad where the husband dances around like a little kid and his wife has to remind him that he needs the car keys, the ad where the husband is so dumb he goes out in the pouring rain and his wife has to remind him to use an umbrella. My "womyn" accquaintances come right out and say that it is "payback time". They think that because women were made to look stupid in the 50s & 60s that it is only fair that they do the same thing to white males. My answer to them is "Two wrongs don't make a right". They don't care.
I hate the Dell commercial with the guy acting like a total moron while his wife is waiting outside...........
It's funny.
Adds and shows like this are funny.
But they are overdone. Men are always portrayed as big stupid babies.
Very true! I've noticed the plethora of "dumb dads" in entertainment lately, and I hardly even watch TV. Still, it's hard not to notice the pattern: Al Bundy, Homer Simpson, and going back a few years, we have the likes of Ralph Kramden and Fred Flintstone. Don't get me wrong - at least in the first two cases, I find the characters and their shows hysterical. But imagine the reaction of the PC police if Peg, Marge, Alice and Wilma were the dumb, incompetent clods.
The only class of people in America with no special protection laws is the WHAM.
White, heterosexual, able-bodied, male.
Everyone else has special protections written into law.
Big news! Women spend most of the household income, actually, so the advertisers are taking advantage of their general contempt for "hubby." Nothing new there. Similar ads have been around since TV got started.
"Dufus Dad" is the most common role in advertising, unless you're selling beer or pickup trucks.
The dullard was probably a Evangelical Christian, no doubt... Anything in the background giving away the fact he lived in the South? KKK Hood? Confederate flag?
Almost every add on the tube shows a dumb white guy being put down either by his wife, his girlfriend, or his minority buddies. It burns me too.
Just bring home the money honey. And shet up.
But I like middle-aged white guys. I like old ones even better. ;)
I understand your objection, but men have set themselves up for this by not taking charge of their homes, and particularly (in this instance) their paychecks. Anti-men, anti-father commercials are out there because women and children are making the spending decisions.
Stand up and be leaders, men! There wouldn't even be a need for cable blocking (much less insulting commercials for it) if men asserted authority over their children.
White guys are dumb. Look at the crap we put up with.
What does it have to do with the guy being white?
Ping.
A reaction to years of "father knows best" shows in which the father was always right. You can see the same thing in the Simpsons or any of the 9,000 situation comedies in which a giant fat guy is married to a hot wife.
Another day in the life of Big-Butted, too-tight-pant-wearing Black Woman.
Yes, lighten up, watch less TV, or both.