The first TV ad that I recall being absolutely repugnant was an insurance ad in which a woman was by her computer. She was spying on her BF through a webcam. When she saw him talking to another woman at a bar, she created a scissors and then cut his pants in the crotch. I don’t think it aired often and I hope people issued complaints.
Capital One, which I think is the company behind the ad I described earlier, has another ad. A black guy approaches a white female and begins a sentence with “Boss...” Message delivered. We get it: woman in power, males are secondary figures. But a feminized tattletale white male goes up to the pair and claims he saw another employee using staples (or some such thing) for something other than business-related. “Boss”? We get the picture on the people behind the ad exec industry.
And it seems every doctor is now a woman or minority, even in print ads. I saw one for a dental plan in white a black and white image showed a woman going to a white male dentist. Then, with the new plan, the images became colorized and the new doctor was a white female. Alas, a break through! Having to go to a white male dentist all those years, how did we survive.
Yes, definitely a lot of social engineering (wishful thinking) going on in the ad industry). While I’ve had a sharp female boss in the past, most females I see in management are tokens who are the last ones in and the first ones out when it comes to working (with the longest lunches in between); they are “playing boss”.
For many years I thought status at work was related to pay & titles; as I age I clearly see that the highest people in any company are the ones that deal with the least “tokens”. On top of that, I have the utmost respect for the white men left in any industry, because I understand the forces at work to unseat them - they must be damned good!