One of the things in Kim's rant that I did agree with but didn't have the time to blog about has been expounded upon by Craig Henry. Specifically, men are protrayed as bumbling idiots in commercials and in many entertainment vehicles.
To go further, while men of all types are on the receiving end, husbands are the ones who get it worseI don't doubt that if you totaled all the spending on these commercials you would conclude that "husbands are dumb" is the most popular advertising message in America. If TV commercials can shape the image of a sneaker or beer, what is it doing to the image of marriage.
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I wonder if these ads are part of the reason that men are deserting TV, especially broadcast TV. The barrage of disparaging commercials just make it a little less appealing to the male demographic.
Absolutely, yes. My favorite television show is 7th Heaven. The fact that the show doesn't treat anybody as an idiot is one of the reasons that I like watching it. Other shows I watch include...uh...lemme think here...
Okay, so I don't watch a lot of shows. Sometimes I'll catch the Crocodile Hunter. Storm Stories and Mail Call are pretty good. I can always get into a decent documentary on the History Channel and Travel Channel's "Top blahblahblah of the World" are often entertaining. Notice a trend? I don't watch things that irritate me and the ever growing "guys are lovable losers/bumbling idots" thing has pretty much trashed television as an entertainment vehicle for me.
(Link snagged from Instapundit)
History Channel, TLC, Travel Channel, Speed Channel...and the movie channels.. thats about it.
A quick gripe, your Remember Personal Info radio button doesn't seem to do much of anything as I just had to retype my info in again (the horror of it all!)
Now on to the post about TV portraying husbands as idiots.
It is an epidemic, its just easy to take potshots at men in general but the commercials that continually show really, really dumb guys is off putting. The A&W Thick Headed commercials from this past year were funny but continued the vein.
I need to go and read Kim duToit more often. And watch less man-hating TV.
Still working on that "remember info" thing. Aparently it is remembering on an individual post basis instead of a site wide basis.
I am so...bloody...tired of hearing about this guy. His post? What a plod. You know what I would've thought had I seen the Cheerios ad? "Maybe I should buy some cereal." Not: you are a puss.
He should stop ranting about his own insecurities, and maybe you guys should stop buying into his foolish nonsense, lest I be forced to write "The Testification of Women" or some other crap.
Please, men. Stand your ground.
I agree for the most part. His rant was overall a pile of steaming foolishness. But even the biggest pile of crap can have a few kernels of corn in it. I get irritated by advertising and programming that idiofies and/or stereotypes just about anything. Being a man and a husband and a dad, the trend to portray my particular minority slice as vacuous bumblers seriously irks me.
Sorry, man. It got up my nose, this guy's post, so I had to go on a rant about it on my site.
Sorry Jim.
You know I love ya' though!
Of course you do! I'm irresistable. :-)
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