Posted on 02/08/2017 4:48:39 AM PST by Kaslin
In the Audi Super Bowl ad, a male voice in grave tones says:
"What do I tell my daughter?
"Do I tell that her grandpa is worth more than her grandma?
"That her dad is worth more than her mom?
"Do I tell her that despite her education, her drive, her skills, her intelligence, she will automatically be valued as less than every man she ever meets?
"Or maybe ... I'll be able to tell her something different."
If there was ever a more mendacious or socially destructive ad during the Super Bowl, let alone on television, I am unaware of it.
As a believer in the free market and the free exchange of ideas, I have rarely advocated for or participated in a boycott of a company for the political positions of its owners or directors. I eat Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream despite the fact that I have opposed every left-wing political and social position Ben and Jerry have ever advocated. It's a free country. And I want to keep it free.
But Audi crossed a line. It should pay an appropriate price.
First, we need to stop the politicization of everything in America. We need to be able to watch sports, for example, without the intrusion of left-wing propaganda. I would feel the same about right-wing propaganda, but the right believes in allowing people to enjoy life without injecting politics wherever possible.
Second, the ad sent the false and debilitating message to every girl that being born in America is to be born oppressed and persecuted. "I am a woman, therefore I am a victim," it says.
In the words of the ad, "she will automatically be valued as less than every man she ever meets." It is hard to imagine a worse message to give a child. I devote an entire chapter in my book on happiness ("Happiness Is a Serious Problem") to victimhood because regarding oneself as a victim makes happiness impossible. This is a big reason many feminists are unhappy human beings.
Third, the ad sent a false and destructive view of America as a country in which Grandpa is worth more than Grandma, and Dad is worth more than Mom. It is an accusation that is so false as to constitute libel of American society.
Fourth, the ad equates worth with income. There is no other explanation for Grandpa and Dad being "worth more" than Grandma and Mom. This view is in keeping with the materialist view of life that has permeated the left since Karl Marx. On the left, the human being is an economic being. Period. Our worth is determined by our material state. If you get a check, you have worth; if you have no check, you have no worth. It is yet another destructive message sent by this ad to the young people watching the Super Bowl.
Fifth, even from just a materialistic perspective, the ad is based on a lie. Women do not make less than men for the same work. And wage differences based on gender have been illegal for over 50 years. This fraudulent claim has been debunked so often that it is utterly irresponsible to keep repeating it. (A powerful five-minute video on the subject titled "The Myth of the Gender Wage Gap," presented by Christina Hoff Sommers, is available on the Prager University website. It has 2.3 million views.) Using common sense alone, why would any employers hire a man if they could hire a woman to do the exact same work for 25 percent less?
Sixth, if Audi is not financially hurt as a result of this ad, be prepared to have next year's Super Bowl feature more left-wing ads.
I have long lamented the fact that while America is engaged in a culture war (now a civil war, as I wrote two weeks ago), it is a war in which only one side seems to be doing almost all of the fighting. The November presidential election suggests that this might finally be changing. The Audi ad will serve as an excellent test case of whether conservatives are prepared to press the fight.
Don't buy an Audi. And let them know why. Tell them you and America value your mother and grandmother every bit as much as you and America value your father and grandfather, and that you value truth more than an Audi.
I didn’t watch any of the commercials. I watched some of the halftime show, especially the one with Lady Gaga. After that I switched back to the game every so often to see what the score was.
That’s funny.
I thought that was Volkswagen who did?
“What do I tell my daughter?”
If you major in women’s studies you won’t be able to afford an Audi
I had an Audi several years ago, It was the worst piece of crap I ever owned. I sold it after six months of ownership to cut my losses.
Moreover, how does this stack up against the White Privilege narrative? If a woman is valued at less than every man, then a black man has more power than a white woman.
Sounds like they are the ones drawing worth from economics. Maybe they should have checked out how Hillary paid her employees? Anyways, I won’t be buying Audis, that’s for sure.
LOVED that one.
Germany is a majority atheist nation...people shouldn’t be surprised at their Marxism.
“I’ve never understood the concept of “making statements” with cars. What a waste of money.”
Meh, I’ll keep my GTI.
Vroom Vroom!
Way out here in Oklahoma, if you don’t drive a truck, everyone thinks you’re a queer.
Audi did too...Audi is part of Volkswagen.
A Texas cowboy walks into a German car showroom and says, “Audi”
Yup.. When the wifes Dodge shart either dies (at 25K we don’t expect it to make it past the end of warranty. It’s had transmissions problems since few days after we bought it..) or we get tied of looking at it, it’ll likely be what I buy for her.
If you are going to spend that kind of money get BMW instead.
I have found that the vast majority of Europeans have a thoroughly Democratic/Marxist view of the USA.
You think our media is bad? There’s is worse than the worst of ours, and they all accept what they hear as reality. They have no idea of what reality is. BBC is CNN/MSNBC squared, as are other European media.
Trying to reason with them is hopeless. They mostly see the world through the same eyes that Obama does.....
“she will automatically be valued as less than every man she ever meets”
OK, so let’s look at this logically. The day when she meets a 16 year old who just started flipping burgers, her salary goes down below his salary.
That’s what it says. If they don’t mean that, they shouldn’t be saying it.
I’ve had a couple of Audi over the years. Real driver’s cars, especially in snow and ice. They have this special deal that I used to tease my wife about on the one she drove. When ever she drove by the dealer, we would get a $650.00 Service Invoice in the mail — when we actually let them do something like change the oil it was much worse.
If it had a real major problem, it took a minimum of six months to fix it. So, while the car is expensive, the ownership is what is truly costly.
Obviously a fake. Everybody knows that cars that cool are always Hondas, and never Chevys.
“Those things are not cheap. How can a woman be so unhappy if she can afford one?”
And the really dumb public buys them, and the can’t see that they are simply Volkswagens with different trim for all but their R-8. Yeah, I know, they may have different powerplants, but the sheetmetal platforms are all shared with VW.
The German headquarter for Volkswagen is in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Besides Audi, Volkswagen also sells Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda
Are you saying just because Volkswagen sells those other brands they all cheated on the EPA testing?
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