Yep - people who place undue weight on stuff like this are just being victims.
TV commercials are just dumb - they consistently have been. My alltime fave, though, is this 75 second Ann-Marget commercial for ginger ale from 35+ years ago. I only recently discovered it and it is HOT!!! ;-)
Yeah, thats what I thought until I became a father of a boy and a girl who have to grow up in the hash the friggen boomers have made of gender relations & society in general. Commercials are mere symptoms.