jafyk
Master Don Juan
Zarky said:I think you guys are over-reacting to this and playing "Poor Me / Ain't it Awful." All these ads that make women feel good about themselves in comparison to men are trying to sell women a product. These ads are not "influencing lawmakers" or any such thing.
If you want to see an ad that's clearly made for men, look at the Dos Equis (beer) ads with the "World's Most Interesting Man." These are for men.
Or, try these ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=235nsrbx558
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7bjIajc0A
But here's the thing, it's evident that you guys clearly want to play the "Poor Me / Ain't it Awful" game. So any arguments by me or anyone else that society and women aren't out to get you will be quickly forgotten by you.
You get some sort of psychological validation from feeling downtrodden. This is not a masculine way to feel, or a masculine game to play. If you find yourself playing "Ain't it Awful" frequently and you are not getting laid, you need to see a psychiatrist ASAP. I'm serious. Constantly complaining about how society "done ya wrong" is pathological and a sign of a deep-seated illness.
Perhaps you should look at it this way. Most of you are arguing that this is just a commercial. Fine it is. Have you stopped to think that the commercial is proof of where we are headed. You wonder how the violence and abuse in the home starts? So, a woman is constantly bombarded with commercials that say it's ok to disrespect a man, it's ok to hit him or throw stuff at him. After all he's a man he should just take it. When this attitude takes root next time she hits him and he slaps her to prove it aint cool, and then the vicious cycle starts. This is just one way to look at it.
A lot of times when I've seen this male bashing and slanting it's in real life. A woman says in front of a bunch of people while the husband is there that she will make him sleep on the couch if bla bla happens. As Jophil said earlier the guy just stares down to the floor and takes it. You may say it's just a commercial but it's a sign of where we are headed. Initially when I saw that commercial I didn't think about it in the terms of this discussion. I saw it more as the beer "beer was just right". Then I thought about it if a woman was pushed out of a moving car how would people react to it?