Posted on 09/08/2009 5:30:07 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
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I eagerly await the reversed roles in the next McDonald's commercial: little black pimpy guy meekly serves big white guy and is too stupid to realize what is going on.
Won't happen. Neither will it happen that I go to McDonalds again.
Really? That’s your definition of man-hating? lame.
I stopped going to McDonalds when they made it clear that they were only interested in serving black people.
Just about every commercial on tv makes stupid white guy commercials, not just MeDonalds. It’s a requirement.
Remember this?
Red Stripe Reggae Dance Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tRCfSuMTY
Wow. What a lame post.
Dude
Your kidding, right?
Pre-caffinated, should be “You’re kidding, right?”
One has to be blind not to see the massive increase in the number of non-caucasians in general on TV and most films.
The token black, gay and woman always seem to appear. And not just that, but in positions of authority.
I’m not old, but I remember certain folks were usually cast in roles like garbageman, bell hop, pimp, etc.
That’s Affirmative Action for you.
If/when I watch TV, I find myself watching shows like ‘Dragnet’, ‘ADAM-12’ and ‘Peter Gunn’.
To me those shows represent the American I grew up in, and the country as a whole was a hell of a lot better than it is today!!!
Perhaps the post is lame. But there are lame posts and super lame posts, ans there are lame commercials and super lame commercials. This commercial is super lame and once again white men are denigrated. McDonalds sandwiches give me diarhea so I dont eat their mystery meat anyway, but this is another reason to keep away from them.
If it’s just two guys on a team, with one of them pimping all the glory, I don’t see how it’s particularly ‘man hating’. Maybe it’s because I’m from New England, but it almost looks like a Brady parody to me.
How is the white guy being denigrated? He’s obviously the highest paid guy on the team. Are you suggesting there’s no arrogant, egotistical black athletes?
Maybe its the subservience and pimpish look that bothers me, even if it doesnt bother others here.
How is that “man hating”?
Your comments indicate you have a black/white issue, correct?
Me neither. A 25 year-old addiction to Big Macs ends today.
But then you have another man in the same commercial with nothing subservient about him at all. Your discomfort is not with ‘man hating’, it’s with the white guy having to grovel to the black guy.
You might be right that McDonald’s knows such a dynamic appeals to its black customers, because blacks perceive some truth to it. But it’s also a dynamic that tends to have some validity in football. The quarterback is usually a white guy, and he gets an outsized share of the team’s glory.
The smart woman-stupid man commercials are annoying, and I don’t like them. In their own way they are condescending to women as well. But they are also a turnaround on decades more of smart man-stupid woman advertising, and they are still playing against type for a stereotype that continues today.
Saturday mornings at McDonalds is generally “Divorced Dad visitation weekend breakfast.” That is the place kids ask Dad to take them for thier weekend with Dad breakfast and they generally do.
We have to remember, when it comes to commercials men 24-45 have been vanishing from the advertising landscape. That commercials was made for women and for minorities because that is the target audience.
Remember the Old Navy commercial where the white family has all white children with one mixed race child and then it flashes to a smile of the actress playing the mother?
These commercials are not generated in the United States, they are generated in the hate america first mindset of NYC ad houses.
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