Per Jezebel today, it looks like we've all been fooled! Yes, us silly ladies have fallen prey to the fox-like tactics of Chrysler (parent company to Dodge) for being all panty-wadded about that atrocious Charger ad that aired during the Super Bowl. See, it was part of their super-smart plan all along to cause outrage! I know I feel a lot better now. Sexism is a thing of the past, and we can all celebrate the wonderful world of equality which, until the airing of that ad, did not exist.
And to prove it, Dodge has come out with an (online only) ad that is meant to prove to women that they, too, can drive Dodge cars with confidence and abandon:
Bonus! An awesomely disturbing SexReally.com illustration.
A new PSA from SexReally features dudes being sex-obsessed assholes, while their idiot girlfriends unknowingly plan babies with them because they don't know better. (Interesting, in light of this new study, which suggests young men may want babies more than young women.) Do people really think girls don't sit around and talk about sex like this? Because they need to listen to me and Susan Quesal go at it for couple hours at our local. (Of course, maybe minus the rapey part at the end. Triggerish warning.)
Divas are hateful bitches who drive everyone crazy with their incessant, nagging demands that everyone respond to their every beck and call. Of course, divas are also women (or Elton John), because everybody knows women just yammer and whine most of the time, whereas dudes (who are not Elton John) are super-cool and fun. So it really sucks when dudes act like girls, which is why they need to eat chocolate, according to this Snickers ad featuring Aretha Franklin and Liza Minelli:
I think I speak for many, many people of many, many sexual orientations when I say: get in my bed, Isaiah Mustafa. Ladies and gentlemen, the man your man could smell like!
Behold, a masculinity commercial that doesn't do that irritating pity-us-you-selfish-stupid-women thing.
This year's Super Bowl ads were not just chock full of man-tastic misogyny and masculinity-mourning, they were also full of violence. And not just the headdesking kind where Tim Tebow tackles the loving mother who didn't abort him!
who reminds us that while sexism and racism and all that, you know, shit feminists hate is bad, violence is also pretty damned crappy. MURKA! MURKA!
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!
I'm sure if I had balls (real ones, you know, because my metaphorical ones are alright) I might have a little second-hand squeam while watching this little Sharpie-drawn penis traipse around the bathroom walls on its testes. But this French PSA advocating condom use is so good and funny, I imagine even the guys can ignore the imaginary pain:
I suppose there's something to be said about a condom being the only thing a guy needs to attract vaginae of all kinds, shapes, hairdos and sizes. But I like how the girl in the bathroom is the one who insists on the condom (you know, er, draws it on or whatever), and does so in a completely cool way. Lady agency: so important.
Over Christmas, I noticed a Special K cereal television advertisement running that featured a mom and her daughter doing some kind of craft at the little girl's kid-sized table. When the mom stands up to answer the phone, her ass is stuck in the kid-sized chair. Mom takes that opportunity to decide that since she is a grown woman who can't fit into a kid-sized chair, she is therefore fat, and needs to eat some Special K.
If fat means we can't sit in chairs made for children, then I am sorry to say that most adults who aren't decomposed skeletons are verging on morbidly obese. I can't find an online video of that ad just yet, but in my search, I did find this rip-off Special K faux ad, for cereal with birth control. Sign. Me. Up.
Ladies, there are many reasons your husband might cheat on you, or worse, leave. For example, you might make crappy coffee. Or drink the wrong soda. Or maybe he wakes up one day and realizes that your face is gross.
Never fear, Beauty in the Morning is here!
Ladies, can you imagine living a life without a man? That's right. You can't afford not to read the transcript after the jump.
Everyone knows that men are physically incapable of not ogling every hot woman that walks by, even if they're on a date with another woman. That's just a fun, wacky thing guys do, and us ladies are so charmed by it. In clearly related news, diet soda!
Some advertisements try to reel you in with sex. Or promises of great wealth and happiness. Others use humor. But a new Kleenex ad campaign is trying ... nagging?
I ran across GetMommed.com while trying to watch the hilarious Green Wing britcom on Hulu. But my Tamsin Greig fix was interrupted by a blonde woman asking me to make her my mom and, by extension, buy a certain kind of Kleenex at her insistence. What? Sure, all moms aren't horrible nags, but "Because my mom told me to!" falls out of the "Main reason why I did something" category once most people lease their first apartments.
The site, which is supposed to help you pick which tissue is best for blowing your goopy snot into, is populated by mom-o-types, all of which want to badger you into buying tissues. There's the Southern mom, the hippy-dippy mom, the boozy high-class mom and the vapid shoe-shopping mom. Is that a stereotype, or is that just Dina Lohan?
Don't fear--there are racial stereotypes, too! From the success-oriented, work-ethic-obsessed Asian mom to the blinged-out, overbearing Jewish mom. And hey, here they are in a weird "webisode" ...
Today on what is apparently the Old Folks edition of Heartless Doll, we learn something very valuable: men and women are different! Especially when it comes to wearing adult diapers. Like, say, women have vaginae and men have penii, and so you'd think it'd be pretty damned logical to sell people on adult diapers that are designed to deal with the different involuntary urine-spewing equipment.
Or, we could just yammer on about how the opposite sex can't drive! When I'm looking to find the best possible product to keep me from pissing all over myself and others, the first thing I wonder is: what does some random stranger think about my driving skills based on my gender?
To be sure, these are the kinds of thoughtful, productive discussions I hope to be having in my old age.
[Disclaimer: This "ad gone bad" depicts men doing domestic work, namely, laundry. Viewer discretion is advised.]
Uh, oh! The wacky, messy boys are at it again, mussing up Mom's pristine tablecloth with their hammy man-hands, bad manners and general manitude! I mean, who would ever think to eat Sloppy Joe's with a plate, or forks, or a napkin!?
The Heartless Dolls are Andrea, Kathleen, Kiala, Merritt, Nicki and a hifalutin array of notable guest contributors from around the web. We dig pop culture and ladythings.
