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Television adverts that mock men

TV commercials that denigrate men

Television adverts - Gender Wars

The main thing that annoys me about today's TV ads is the fact that they now appear to concentrate on making politically correct points instead of selling their products



Advertisements which mock and denigrate men are antagonising nearly half of their potential customers. Presumably the companies involved consider consumers to be such a stupid bunch.

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22-5-2008a great tactic for diverting women from the real issues they face of inequality, but hey in today's post feminist world if you flash your bum out of a limo or binge drink your emancipated. If you laugh at men being demeaned its equality; go on and spend, no need to worry about silly things like ...moreJoe Spoon
15-2-2008"Almost invariably she will be a smart, intelligent, good-looking person, in full control of her life. If she has a fault it will only be the mocking, pitying way in which she treats the men in her life." Hmm, do you happen to have her phone number?Michael
02-2-2008its the same old thing, when its sexism towards men its empowering to women and when its the other way round its sexism same thing with strippers and porn.daniel
28-11-2007Oracle, calm down Dear it's only a commercial. I don't believe for one minute that the commercials are made by women in high powered jobs or H.O.A as is referred. That makes me laugh as it could possibly be a female job if you take out the punctuation marks. These ads are supposedly cleverly...morenick
28-11-2007McLovin....great point. Just like the flash advert where the bloke cleans up while his wife is out and that hilarious one with Mr Muscle! I can see your point completely. It's not often that somebodys post has no holes in it whatsoever. Well done U!!!!Freddie
28-11-2007If you want to talk about stereotypes in television commercials, why is it that just about every commercial for household cleaning items features a WOMAN cleaning up after her family, and never a man?McLovin'
15-8-2007Most women are complete hypocrites on this issue (and on many others). For years they have campaigned to censor and even criminalise any speech that could even be remotely construed as "offensive" to women. Yet they buy products promoted in advertisements that are overtly hateful towards...morePetros
01-7-2007I'm sorry, 'Atilla the mum', but your examples pale in comparison to those of 'ORACLE 2006'. Can you seriously not see this??dyslexic_banana
17-4-2007oracle is quite correct however the reason behind it is not to advance feminism (women are too stupid to conspire) its simply because most of the ads he is referring to are written by women.Miss Hodge Innis
02-4-2007The companies who do this are anything but wrong. They are making their sales skyrocket. The writer of this article said that these companies "are antagonising nearly half of their potential customers." Nothing could be farther from the truth. Women are the #1 consumers of pretty much ever...moreSam -USA
17-7-2006Perhaps - like most men - Tony doesn't listen to his wife! (Must be all those years of nagging.) ;)Attila the Mum
14-7-2006I don't want to waste any more of my time on this matter - after all I do have an empire to run ! What I would ask you all to ponder is - if women are now the masters, why does Cherie Blair allow Tony Blair to make so many blunders recently? After all, if he goes down, she will lose all her...moreImperator.



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