A useful exercise (since commercials are fantasy anyway) is to imagine if the sex roles were completely reversed in a given male-bashing example.
Usually (well, always so far) you’ll find there would be no way such a commercial would be appreciated nor “tolerated”. Try it.
Oh absolutely. There are so many male bashing ads, it gets sickening. I recall one where the wife was doing a whole bunch of things getting ready for a trip and all the idiot husband had to do was put the stroller in the mini-van. And he couldn’t even figure that one out (I think it was a toyota mini-van), so the wife had to save him. She drove of course.
I just found this KMart-fight-the-Christmas lights one funny because I had been struggling with the pre-wired Christmas tree the night before (the one we got on discount w/o instructions).
This Youtube puts a bunch them all in one ~6 minute video. I don’t think I’ve seen most of these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W01KGYmbk4o