Or why men are constantly ridiculed in ads. A car ad currently aired shows where a woman who slaps a man across the face. Imagine a man slapping a woman? There is one playing now for a hotel chain in which a man is home in curlers while his wife is on a business trip. About five years, a hotel discount website showed two white guys blowing bubbles through a straw/hose while a black guy was bathing— the point of the ad was not to get fooled by online hotel discount sites that would call that a spa; however, how would the ad have aired if the races where switched? And then there are the Progressive Insurance ads. I seem to remember one ad where a woman used a scissors through a computer graphic to cut her man’s private parts because she saw him talking to a woman in a bar via a web cam.
I've seen the ad with the husband wearing curlers--just weird.
I haven't seen the Progressive ad you mention--whenever one starts to come on I immediately switch channels. I started doing that several years ago when they had one of their earliest ads with "Flo" which featured a couple of young men acting as "flaming" homosexuals (whether the actors really were, I have no idea). Plus the owner is a rabid leftist.
I can't stand Allstate ads either...
Some of the older Aflac ads were good, but after seeing them 100 times they get stale...