Last night while watching the game, I let out the occasional yelp and squeal and cheer, as I am wont to do when I view sports (#geauxsaints). A dude friend of mine couldn't get enough of my outbursts. As he said: "I've never seen a girl invested in the outcome of a football game before." (With which I took issue, but that's not the point here.)
Because I don't think anyone working on the man-tastic, mostly banal, generally misogynistic advertising that aired during the game has ever seen a woman watch a sporting event, either. Masculinity was a major theme throughout the commercials, wherein men were encouraged to quit being such wussy turds and man up and BUY STUFF!
Exhibit A:
A number of commercials were no better, illustrating that, as one of my Twitter friends put it, "If a dude does things that make his partner want to have more sex with him, he's clearly a homo."
You know, I agree for the most part but I didn't get "misogyny" from the Mark Sanchez ad. I thought it was a very simple, sweet and sincere message for Women's Heart Health Month.
That chair is so quirky, I don't know how it can get along with its more conventional sofa friend. I hope they make a wacky sitcom about their relationship.
Posted 02/08/2010 at 10:31:53 AM
manup said:
I think most of the ads were anti-men, not misogynistic at all. The ads made the men look like beer swilling buffoons. I think women did a whole lot better.
Posted 02/08/2010 at 10:33:21 AM
Tasha said:
Gotta agree with manup, men came off looking baaaaaaad (the Bud book club commercial comes to mind especially when it came to making men look remarkably stupid). Not that women came off well - the Flo Tv shopping ad in point. Lots of "What were they THINKING???" moments during the game.
Didn't have a problem at all with the Mark Sanchez ad tho. Reminding women that they need to know what women's symptoms of heart attack are different from men's is cool by me. Many women don't know what the symptoms are for women's heart attacks. Seems to me to be a different flavor than the save the ta-ta's campaign, because a woman can live without her ta-ta's, but without a heart it gets pretty tough (thus showing concern for the entire person).
Posted 02/08/2010 at 01:57:57 PM
El said:
Some reason men come off as buffoons. (NOt all guys drive Dodge Chargers, some of us gals like the muscle cars!)
Posted 02/08/2010 at 08:55:59 PM
comicshopgrl said:
I didn't care for the Mark Sanchez commercial but mostly because I hate Mark Sanchez. Ooh a rookie taking his team to the AFC championship. Joe Flacco did it last year and he looks like Bert from Sesame Street which is totally awesome. Also, Mark Sanchez never mentioned what the different symptoms were for a woman's heart attack.
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on the other hand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm3Sn-y7i8A
that quirky chair!
(not super bowl related)
Posted 02/08/2010 at 09:30:32 AMYou know, I agree for the most part but I didn't get "misogyny" from the Mark Sanchez ad. I thought it was a very simple, sweet and sincere message for Women's Heart Health Month.
But most of the other ads sucked.
Posted 02/08/2010 at 10:25:26 AMThat chair is so quirky, I don't know how it can get along with its more conventional sofa friend. I hope they make a wacky sitcom about their relationship.
Posted 02/08/2010 at 10:31:53 AMI think most of the ads were anti-men, not misogynistic at all. The ads made the men look like beer swilling buffoons. I think women did a whole lot better.
Posted 02/08/2010 at 10:33:21 AMGotta agree with manup, men came off looking baaaaaaad (the Bud book club commercial comes to mind especially when it came to making men look remarkably stupid). Not that women came off well - the Flo Tv shopping ad in point. Lots of "What were they THINKING???" moments during the game.
Didn't have a problem at all with the Mark Sanchez ad tho. Reminding women that they need to know what women's symptoms of heart attack are different from men's is cool by me. Many women don't know what the symptoms are for women's heart attacks. Seems to me to be a different flavor than the save the ta-ta's campaign, because a woman can live without her ta-ta's, but without a heart it gets pretty tough (thus showing concern for the entire person).
Posted 02/08/2010 at 01:57:57 PMSome reason men come off as buffoons. (NOt all guys drive Dodge Chargers, some of us gals like the muscle cars!)
Posted 02/08/2010 at 08:55:59 PMI didn't care for the Mark Sanchez commercial but mostly because I hate Mark Sanchez. Ooh a rookie taking his team to the AFC championship. Joe Flacco did it last year and he looks like Bert from Sesame Street which is totally awesome. Also, Mark Sanchez never mentioned what the different symptoms were for a woman's heart attack.
Posted 02/10/2010 at 11:36:58 AM