Thursday, December 30, 2010

Men in Ads- Are they really all that stupid??

Do men ever get annoyed how they are portrayed as dumb idiots in most television ads? What an insult to women that the ad industry STILL thinks that women need them to give them a "pat on the back" for being a woman and make men the smaller of the two sexes in commercials and sitcoms. There are TONS of ads where the woman corrects the man/husband/boyfriend/father figure, or smirks while the man makes a mistake, and not many the other way around. If the ad industry is going to be at all modern, join us modern liberated women (this isn't 1974) and realize that giving us preferencial treatment in any sitcom, ads, etc is just insulting to us and does nothing to promote "equal rights" for women. In fact, it furthers the myth that we need help, and in the form of bad writing and lazy ideas, it's help we don't need.
Men and women are different. The term "equal rights" may apply to how we are to respected, paid, treated legally and morally: true- but we are different, not the same. Treat us as such, finally. There are stupid ignorant people on both Adam and Eve's playground. Every day, throwing shoes, pulling hair, bullying, preaching, laughing, making mistakes and acting like the tall hairless monkeys that we are.

Now write it into the script so we can get out from under your thumb, advertisers.

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