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Originally Posted by SeeBass
have you seen double standard commercials that if the roles were reversed they would get yanked off the air?
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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Which ones?
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I heard this argument a few years back and I paid attention for a few months and found it was a shocking number. Watch how often men are portrayed as bumbling idiots and women are portrayed as coming to the rescue. It's particularly bad in cleaning product commercials where it's often the stupid dad who makes the mess.
In a similar vein, what would the perception be if Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin or most of the idiotic sitcom dads out there were a woman instead?
From a quick search, here is one example of an idiot man in a commercial:
To be fair, I have the same hatred for the Axe shower gel commercials and their ilk.