So it looks like overweight Americans are outraged over the new Peloton ad

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

People aren't offended by a skinny lady doing exercise, they're likely just amused by how bad the premise is.

All TV ads have a ridiculous premise if you dissect them logically. Beer commercials show the dude surrounded by hot women, car commercials show the guy buying an SUV for his wife wrapped in a Christmas bow, etc. They give you visually appealing images to associate with the product.

If a women wants a Peloton bike for Christmas, why not buy her one?

Same for lingerie or other sexy outfits. Some women actually want to wear sexy see through attire and have fun with their partner. Others prefer the lights off. Whose to say one is right and one is wrong? Same with the exercise bike. Some women want exercise bikes and some want a bag of marshmallows. Again, whose to say one is wrong and one is right?

Dr. Pepper wrote:

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

People aren't offended by a skinny lady doing exercise, they're likely just amused by how bad the premise is.

All TV ads have a ridiculous premise if you dissect them logically. Beer commercials show the dude surrounded by hot women, car commercials show the guy buying an SUV for his wife wrapped in a Christmas bow, etc. They give you visually appealing images to associate with the product.

True. Do you remember that Superbowl commercial with the horse becoming friends with the dog? Horses don't even drink beer.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

This article properly makes fun of how bad the ad is:

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/12/peloton-bike-lady-needs-help-someone-please-help-her

People aren't offended by a skinny lady doing exercise, they're likely just amused by how bad the premise is.

Really fit lady who is extremely affluent (a place like that in the Boston area?) terrified of doing a solo ride on an exercise bike? Why? Also, what's the insane motivator that makes her feel she has to do this at the crack of dawn? Why is she documenting any of this for her husband? Why does the fitness instructor calling out her name give her insane validation when she is an extremely attractive and affluent woman who is seemingly pretty high up in the world? None of this is really explained.

Is this a troll post? It's right on the edge.

So after reading the whole thread I went back and actually watched the ad. What's the problem?!? She started pretty hot and stayed pretty hot. Thank you Peloton, for keeping women looking hot. Thanks to this ad I'm going to buy two of them for my wife so that she can double up on the hotness.

Dr. Pepper wrote:

All TV ads have a ridiculous premise if you dissect them logically. Beer commercials show the dude surrounded by hot women, car commercials show the guy buying an SUV for his wife wrapped in a Christmas bow, etc. They give you visually appealing images to associate with the product.

Yeah, but most of those commercials are aspirational. You want to be the beer-guzzling dude watching the game surrounded by hot chicks. Or the super-rich dude who goes over-the-top with the show-stopping Christmas gift (or the recipient of it).

Do you want to be the extremely hot, wealthy and anxious young Mom who needs validation through a yelling indoor bike and her husband.

This is very much like the outrage over the movie Megan Runs A Marathon. There was nothing wrong with that movie, it was a story about one person and what they went through and people went ape over it.

This is a dumb commercial about a girl who wants to get in better shape and does, no worse than any jewelry store commercial or perfume ad I've seen recently.

People just need to be upset over things on facebook/twitter/insta so they can get validation through likes/comments etc.

Raider3817 wrote:

This is very much like the outrage over the movie Megan Runs A Marathon.

F*ck you!!!! How the f*cking hell could you get my name wrong!??! I'm outraged!!!!!!

Seriously, how good was that movie?

dfa wrote:

Seriously, how good was that movie?

I'd much rather watch two hours of the woman in the Peloton ad riding her bike.

I just ordered my first Peloton bike.

Thanks liberals for the free exposure!

The outraged reaction to the ad has been hilarious.

So many people are utterly incapable of seeing exercise as anything other than a form of self-torture, inflicted out of guilt and self-loathing, which means the only people who stick with exercise over the long term are either borderline psychopaths or victims of patriarchal oppression. What's funny about it, though, is that for some reason people are perfectly willing to allow that men might enjoy physical activity for its own sake, but people always assume that women hate it, are just doing it to please men, and would much rather be drinking wine on the sofa.

MaryCains wrote:

The people who get mad at this are the same people who hate Alberto for having the nerve to tell a runner to lose weight.

Al Sal should have left Mary Cain alone as an 800m athlete. Cain could have cut body fat percentage instead of worrying about weight. Al Sal did not understand the real goal: get stronger and faster, not lighter in weight necessarily. It reminds me of the year I went from 149 lbs. at 14% body fat to 155 lbs,. the following year at 7 1/2% body fat. I got heavier, stronger and faster. Mary Cain was no bigger than Alysia Johnson-Montano.

seriously. wrote:

dfa wrote:

Seriously, how good was that movie?

I'd much rather watch two hours of the woman in the Peloton ad riding her bike.

+1. Most women would be better off if they aspired to look like her.

dfa wrote:

I just ordered my first Peloton bike.

Thanks liberals for the free exposure!

You'll be an attractive woman in no time.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

Yeah, but most of those commercials are aspirational. You want to be the beer-guzzling dude watching the game surrounded by hot chicks. Or the super-rich dude who goes over-the-top with the show-stopping Christmas gift (or the recipient of it).

Do you want to be the extremely hot, wealthy and anxious young Mom who needs validation through a yelling indoor bike and her husband.

It's ridiculous to frame it that way. Do most women want to be a rich soccer mom/house wife who can do it all? Maybe be a super motivated, strong mom, successful in the corporate world and buy a stationary bike that will afford her the time to be able to get in a great workout before heading in to her $200k+/year job? Yeah, I think that's aspirational and most women would want that.

800 dude wrote:

The outraged reaction to the ad has been hilarious.

So many people are utterly incapable of seeing exercise as anything other than a form of self-torture, inflicted out of guilt and self-loathing, which means the only people who stick with exercise over the long term are either borderline psychopaths or victims of patriarchal oppression. What's funny about it, though, is that for some reason people are perfectly willing to allow that men might enjoy physical activity for its own sake, but people always assume that women hate it, are just doing it to please men, and would much rather be drinking wine on the sofa.

Nah I don't think that's it. This woman really looks she's just doing it to please/impress her husband and validate his gift, though. That's basically the storyflow of the ad.

Can we just talk about how hot the actress is in the ad?

Doug Heffernan wrote:

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

Yeah, but most of those commercials are aspirational. You want to be the beer-guzzling dude watching the game surrounded by hot chicks. Or the super-rich dude who goes over-the-top with the show-stopping Christmas gift (or the recipient of it).

Do you want to be the extremely hot, wealthy and anxious young Mom who needs validation through a yelling indoor bike and her husband.

It's ridiculous to frame it that way. Do most women want to be a rich soccer mom/house wife who can do it all? Maybe be a super motivated, strong mom, successful in the corporate world and buy a stationary bike that will afford her the time to be able to get in a great workout before heading in to her $200k+/year job? Yeah, I think that's aspirational and most women would want that.

Yes, you're giving the ad a lot of credit for what it did NOT show. What it did show was a woman suffering from some weird anxiety and uncertainty doing bizarre selfies to share with her husband?