I Won't Sell My Songs for No TV Ad
Are men really so simple as to define manhood by the amount of meat they consume? According to Burger King, men are that simple. TGI Friday's agrees. And Hummer insists that men who wimp out and eat healthy can overcome emasculation by purchasing gas-guzzling automobiles. If you can't pollute your prostate, f*ck up the ecosystem instead!
Go here to vote for the worst of these commercials.
Don't fault advertisers; their job is to generate revenue. Therefore companies have a vested interest in encouraging men to feel like boobs. These commercials seem to present all the proof my single friends need when bemoaning the shortage of decent guys out there.
Real men take care of themselves and the world we live in. Without dead animals weighing them down, real men also last longer in more ways than one. Suck on that Whopper.
h/t to Kleo
posted by kate @ 7:33 AM
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There's another Hummer commercial out there that I just don't get. A woman is in line with her kid at the slide in a playground and another women cuts her child in ahead of her. Woman A says something like, "Hey, little Sally was next," and woman B says, "Yeah? Well, now she's not." Filled with impotent rage (or constipated, the actress was unclear), woman A drives to a Hummer dealership, trades in her "sensible" SUV (I think it's an SUV, but I can't remember) and buys a Hummer. That's where the commercial ends.
I don't get this. I mean, if they showed the woman then going back to the playground and driving over woman B and her horribly reared child while onlooks gasped and cried, that would at least make sense. But the whole, "The world is unfair and I feel powerless so I'm going to buy a Hummer" thing is perhaps the most bald faced appeal to rampant consumerism I've ever seen. Maybe that's why it's throwing me. It's pure honesty in advertising and I'm completely unused to that so I'm trying to make it something it isn't.
If you're powerless, upset or just generally dissatisfied with your ability to make an impact on the world, buy a Hummer. It won't make any of those problems go away, but it will at least identify you to those around you as someone to be avoided and it will slowly poison the world, so that's a sort of revenge.
Okay, 1) regarding the Hummer crowd, they're getting theirs now, with gas pretty much going to be in the 2-buck-a-gallon or more range for ever more ...
2) Remember that ad they had, "you never forget your first Hummer" .. did anyone else get that?
3) I was in Colorado Springs ("The Springs") today, at the Garden of the Gods, nice, and FREE ... whoa, not like our "National Parks" that they now charge 10 dollar admission to. Went up to Manitou Springs for lunch with wife, Saralee ... Nice little touristy town, lots of bikers. (Kate, you should go there, someday, if you ever actually intend to, ahem, move to Colorado :-) ...
We're going shopping for a house/condo this month. Buyers, imagine that!
--chase
I like Manitou Springs - lotsa hippies. One of the places we're thinking about living...if this house ever sells.
Lowered the price again. Fingers crossed.
Meat. Good.
Love the T-shirt, btw.
As for veggies, to quote Denis Leary:
"I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli? Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK? When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now"
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