Seriously. Could you imagine if they made an ad with a guy running down 2 girls. There would be protests and riots. It would be taken off the air immediately. But when it's a women beating men THAT'S A OKAY.
Seriously. Could you imagine if they made an ad with a guy running down 2 girls. There would be protests and riots. It would be taken off the air immediately. But when it's a women beating men THAT'S A OKAY.
That is because woman can't beat men. Duh.
I have to agree with Flagpole and others who stated that the whole concept of the commercial is stupid because the guys were running hill repeats and not in a fair competition with Kara who was running at a steady pace.
If the guys were running repeats, Kara would have seen them at the bottom of the hill waiting for the next repeat or jogging down the hill to get to the start. Kara, being a runner with solid experience in hill-work would realize this and not take negatively to their running past her on their repeat. This wasn't the case apparently in the commercial.
Also, I could see a men's deodorant, or body wash using this same concept and not have it taken SO F*CKING OVER THE TOP OUT OF CONTEXT.
DCO2 wrote:
Seriously. Could you imagine if they made an ad with a guy running down 2 girls. There would be protests and riots. It would be taken off the air immediately. But when it's a women beating men THAT'S A OKAY.
Remember all the protests and riots when this happened?
http://running.competitor.com/2009/08/news/goucher-wins-inaugural-rock-%E2%80%98n%E2%80%99-roll-chicago-half-marathon_4166DCO2 wrote:
Seriously. Could you imagine if they made an ad with a guy running down 2 girls. There would be protests and riots. It would be taken off the air immediately. But when it's a women beating men THAT'S A OKAY.
Don't you have a tea party convention you need to be at? Or are you typing this from the convention? In that case - touché.
*touche.
UFO Expert wrote:
DCO2 wrote:Seriously. Could you imagine if they made an ad with a guy running down 2 girls. There would be protests and riots. It would be taken off the air immediately. But when it's a women beating men THAT'S A OKAY.
Don't you have a tea party convention you need to be at? Or are you typing this from the convention? In that case - touché.
Much better, you could actually try to counter the sentiment.... Or ignore it, of course.
link to commercial?
One that I really like is the trailer for The Wedding Ringer where Hart and some woman are having an argument and she starts wailing on him. Beats him down to the ground. HY-LARIOUS when a woman beats up on a man.
just one of many many cases of white males being portrayed as weak bubbling fools. Look at pretty much any comedy show on TV in the USA these days the male character is a slow whited, sloppy, most times overweight, fool that has to be saved by a women. This is just another case
Substance wrote:
UFO Expert wrote:Don't you have a tea party convention you need to be at? Or are you typing this from the convention? In that case - touché.
Much better, you could actually try to counter the sentiment.... Or ignore it, of course.
Nah.
just one of many many cases of white males being portrayed as weak bubbling fools. Look at pretty much any comedy show on TV in the USA these days the male character is a slow whited, sloppy, most times overweight, fool that has to be saved by a women. This is just another case
slushpush wrote:
just one of many many cases of white males being portrayed as weak bubbling fools. Look at pretty much any comedy show on TV in the USA these days the male character is a slow whited, sloppy, most times overweight, fool that has to be saved by a women. This is just another case
And another example.
I think the point is, what is that commercial trying to sell. This is how you market shoes "marketing 101" . >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJn64kkpOSc&feature=youtu.be
Seriously, what are you on?
Ugh. Bated to comment on a thread like this. You win i suppose.
but seriously. i sincerely hope you never reproduce.
wait, you're sensitive about a commercial in which a couple guys pass goucher on their hill repeats, she then smiles when she continues past them when they're at the top resting after their repeat??? How is this sexism of any kind? As for why woman get the better of men in so many programs, commercials, and movies now, it's obviously about the underdog. How much fun is it for the person with all the physical advantages to physically beat or make fun of those weaker or smaller?
DC Area Runner wrote:
I have to agree with Flagpole
Fail.
the guys were running hill repeats and not in a fair competition with Kara who was running at a steady pace.
They were not. That's something you far fetched you have made up and misses the point of the commercial that the guys obviously want to pass Kara because she's a woman.
And yes, the commercial is sexist. That's ok. What is not okay is that a commercial that makes fun of women isn't socially accepted.
No , I'm not sensitive about the Goucher commercial . I don't think it will sell shoes. This will >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJn64kkpOSc&feature=youtu.be