Posted on 02/09/2010 7:33:55 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Lol! That should read I WASNT talking about the women writing the article.
Oh, I was confused as to who was crying. Thanks for the clarification.
No problem.
Yeah, and the women that laugh the loudest are the ones that need a bar stool for each cheek, and are hustling drinks from the nasty MEN because their welfare check was already gone by the 4th of the month!!!!!
Exactly. Where's this 'ho coming from?
;-)
I believe Lauren Beckham Falcone is the daughter of Beverly Beckham who writes a column for the Globe. I love the Mom’s writing. She’s a product of the 50’s and 60’s and writes real homey, nostalgic columns. The daughter(Lauren) has a Down’s Syndrome daughter, Lucy, who is often the subject of grandma’s stories. They love Lucy to death and marvel at her accomplishments.
To clarify, I was not talking about the writer. I was talking a commenter that was crying over the ads.
Quote:
“...depicting women as spine-stealing nags”
Why is the author bringing my ex-wife into the debate?
Yeah I saw the Dove commercial. I thought metrosexuality had been sufficiently discredited but I guess not.
EVERY ad is going to portray the consumer as obsessed with the advertised products. Female characters go crazy for air freshners and spend inordinate amounts of time cleaning. Male characters go crazy for watered down beer and spend inordinate amounts of time patching things together with their tool set. Both male and female characters seem to find life fulfillment by purchasing the newest 7-razored shaving device. In this respect the ads seem even handed.
The imbalance comes in whenever male and female characters interact with each other. Maybe it's just my male bias at work, but it seems like female characters usually get the upper hand over the male characters.
How many ads have you seen where a man gets "put in his place" by a woman? These threads will provide countless examples. How many ads have you seen where a woman gets shown up by a man? I'm sure there are some, but they don't seem nearly as numerous.
You make some very good points here.
“You make some very good points here.”
But how can that be? Tim is a man’s name. ;)
LOL! :)
He really does and I have to give him credit where credit is due.
To prove I'm not completely biased, I should point out that this is my current most hated line of commercials. They strike me as creepily misogynistic.
The commercials show a woman trapped in a glass enclosure which sits in an empty warehouse. There's dusty furniture/appliances in the glass box which she is made to clean. The woman is amazed at the cleaning power of the advertised product. But she never seems to ask why she's been trapped inside this enclosure in the empty warehouse, or why she is being made to clean for the disembodied voice speaking to her from the shadows. She also appears to still be stuck in the glass box at end when she has finished cleaning.
Weird stuff. Associating your cleaning products with domestic slavery isn't a strategy I would undertake, but I guess that's why I'm not in television advertising.
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