'Anti-Male' Marketing Prompts Complaints

CNSNews.com ^ | November 09, 2004 | Susan Jones

[MisterRepublican]

Angry parents and grandparents are letting Verizon Communications know they don't like a new Verizon DSL commercial that makes fun of fathers.

Glenn Sacks, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, urged his listeners to call Verizon, after learning about a TV ad that shows a father trying, but failing, to help his young daughter with her homework.

The daughter, annoyed by her father, looks to her mother for intervention. The mother tells the father to go wash the dog, orders him to leave the daughter alone, and then yells at him when he is slow to comply, Sacks said.

Sacks told listeners that he "doesn't think Verizon means any harm." But he said it appears that the company - like some others -- has developed a "moral blind spot towards disparaging males."

According to Sacks, "Research shows how indispensable fathers are to their children's well-being....it is tremendously damaging to convince kids that their father is an idiot or that fathers are worthless."

[annyokie]

Hey! Watch the blonde jokes, buddy! ; )

[Prophet in the wilderness]

why don't they spend their OWN money ?
Lets see ? When a man brings home the money,, the culture says,, that the mans money is OUR MONEY in a woman's mind, but, if she has a job also, and brings homes the money,, it's HER MONEY,, were is the equality in that ? or the fairness in that ? " yup,, this culture and MSM has BRAINWASHED womens minds very well.

[jpsb]

Verizon DSL sucks, I just got it, Verizon blocks ALL PORTS! Even Port 80! Can you believe an ISP would block/filter port 80? I have to keep my dialup connection so I can use port 80.

This male bashing thing has been going on for quite a while, meanwhile the girls wonder why so few men are interested in a relationship longer then a few or two.

[fooman]

Its the old shaq and shagg strategy to keep judy judy out of thier wallets.

[annyokie]

Mr Clean had rolled up pants and an earring in 1963.

[fooman]

Its the old shaq and shagg strategy to keep JUDGE judy out of thier wallets.

[fooman]

I always took that to meant he was foreign, like from India or the middle east....

[freeeee]

More commercials catering to the women. Men make the money, women spend it. Flame suit on...........

Fine, they're catering to women. I can see them using the nice pastel colors in their ads that seem to hypnotise women, using lots of pictures (look at women's magaizes), etc... to catch their attention.

But why is outright hostility to a man's competency a selling point to women? Apparently if its such a common theme across advertising for many different products, it must hit a nerve somewhere with them.

Why is that? Is it something in women, something from Madison Ave, or both?

[annyokie]

Yup or even better, a pirate.

[fooman]

right

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The name of the company speaks for it's self.

[-YYZ-]

Now, if you're a guy, answer this: What brands of the following products do you use in your home?:

Laundry Detergent
Ultra Tide liquid
Household Cleaners
Comet, Windex, Mr. Clean
Coffee
Don't drink it
Grocery Items
Too many to list
Hand Soap
SoftSoap liquid
Dishwashing detergent
Cacade LiquiGel
Feminine Hygiene products
No idea
Children's underwear and outerwear
No children
Bed linens
No particular brand, but I'm partial to percale sheets with at least a 300 thread count.

[Last Dakotan]

..beer and motor vehicle ads are the only ones aimed at men?

You surely haven't seen the Chrysler ad where the mom goes around flipping the new folding seats down while the dad can't figure out how to collapse a simple stroller.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

yup,, the GAY and Feminist agendas are setting this world up for the ANTI CHRIST , and setting this worlds up for the BIG LIE for everyone to believe.
The gay & feminist movements are nothing but ( SATANIC & and DEMONIC ).

[RebelBanker]

I had forgotten about that one. You will note that the ad you are describing is for a minivan. I suppose the "mommy-mobile" commercials can fall into the male-bashing abyss now. too.

[RJS1950]

You're allowed to talk??!! Well damn.

[rocksblues]

About 20 years ago I went with a buddy out to the Lehigh river for a day of so called white water rafting.

We got stuck with two women in the front. Their paddling was so ineffective it was all we two guys in the back could do to keep us going somewhat straight and around obstacles.

Whenever we got too close to something they would both turn around and give us dirty looks. So of course when we came up to the worst part of the river we stopped paddling. Boy did we get dirty looks then. One of my best days!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Sounds like my brother, his wife has him LEASH TRAINED,, he can't go any were without her OK.
That is so contrary to the BIBLE, no wonder the GAYS & Feminist want to ban the BIBLE. The GAY AGENDA & the FEMINIST MOVMENTS are DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSSED TO GOD AND God's WORD THE BIBLE. That's not how God's plan of a home or household is to be, GOD plan is for THE MAN to be the leader and HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD ( THE BUCK STOPS WITH THE MAN,, if there is going to be any kind of spending of money, IT"S THE MAN WHO SHOULD MAKE ALL THE DECISIONS ).

[HitmanLV]

I'm just not that sensitive to it, I admit. Nothing I see on tv bothers me very much.

For example, I am an american of italian descent and have never taken seriously the mock outrage of certain 'Italian-American' groups to programming like The Sopranos, or of media depictions of Italians. It's just a show, nothing more, nothing less.

Anyone who takes those depictions seriously, and really belives the depictions, does so at their own peril.

Women have always chuckled amongst themselves about the men in their lives, just as us men exhort 'women!' when we are befuddled by the unique feminine worldview. I take no offense at either.

Any woman who thinks all the men in their lives are a bunch of buffoons won't be nearly as effective in her life as those fictional women appear to be in those 30 second commercials. They do so at their own peril, as I have said.

Any man who harbors a similarly unflattering view of women does so at his own peril.

I let that stuff slide, though in the interests of full disclosure I confess that I have enjoyed being 'misunderestimated' even before Dubya made that 'shi-shi!' Indeed, it's a backhanded compliment - after all, how smart, effective, and competent can an idiot like me really be? ;-)

[Paridel]

I heard someone say once that the average intelligence of women and men is about the same... the difference being that women's intelligence is laid out on a gaussian curve while men's intelligence is more of a laplacian (for those not interested in statistics that means that the "tails" of the function are higher... there are more outliers in the male plot.)

I don't really believe that, but it was an interesting thought. Of course non one would ever actually conduct such a study so we may never know.

-paridel