Posted on 11/10/2004 9:41:03 AM PST by 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."
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I couldn't agree more. I've seen that obnoxious commercial and felt the same. Dad is always the dope, the buffoon, the one who needs to be instructed, usually by a woman or child.
OTOH, I can think of one exception - if you're a blond woman, all bets are off... ;-)
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"Whenever I see that scorn coming into my life, I basically point out how much the scorner relies on me, and how rough they WILL have it if I decide I won't take it anymore."
And there you have it. Nobody in a family should be subject to scorn. When it does occur, it's time to straighten things out.
On the other hand, I know a few families where the scorn is well-justified. In one, hubby hasn't held a job for more than 3 months at a time. Right now, he isn't working at all, and isn't even really looking. He sits around and drinks beer all day. Never does a darned thing around the house, while his wife, who has a very good job, is at work.
The scorn he faces is earned, but that's an exception.
Here is one where the woman (albeit, not a moron) is doing housework and Mr. Clean saves her day...
Indeed, and like I said, anyone who seriously beleives this does so at their own peril.
I take a firm & unapologetic posture with these types. If they have convinced themselves that I (as a male coworker, for example) do not contribute much, then it's incumbent upon me to live up (or live down) to that standard.
That is, I won't come to the resuce, for example, when I am needed the most. That goes for professional and personal life, in my case. And it's not about sex, either, as I treat the men who take a condescending posture with me the same way.
That is, if I am a buffoon, idiot, neanderthal, etc (because of my politics, sex, or whatever), it seems to be I can't meaningfully assist anyone else without running the risk of screwing matters up even more.
So I refrain from contributing. It's only fair.
I have said numerous times on this forum and others that, on balance, liberals benefit from their personal and professional relationships with conservatives more than conservatives benefit from their relationships with liberals.
They use our nobility against us - it really is time to let them fend for their own: the weakest will fail, but they deserve it, and the rest will suffer for a spell but maight realize that they can't behave that way with impunity.
In other words, it's our personal responsibility to pubush the liberals in this way. Indeed, the reason they are so bold and brazen is that we as a culture failed to punish them for their bad behavior.
When you fail to punish bad behavior, you get more of it. That's exactly what he have now.
The theme of a lot of commercials is, "Here's so-and-so struggling along using an inferior brand, while THIS person is getting great results with OUR product." In those commercials, the dolt using the wrong brand is almost always a white male, and he has to be set straight by the other character, who is always a female and/or minority. I've long been wondering when white males were going to start getting sick of this.
I think, now that it knows it is selling to Red America, Madison Avenue needs a new credo when pitching new ads: WWWD?
(What Would Ward Do?)
Also, a more modern version of Mr. Clean saving the day is the Floor Mate products with the Aussie barging into a distraught woman's (because her floors are dirty) home to clean her floors.
That's no excuse.
And I'm a woman.
Is that Jane Jetson?
Ain't that the truth. I'm the invisible man until its time to hit the old man up for some green.
I hate the one where the father brings phones for everyone and they hug mom and leave dad standing there wanting and craving affection. So sad.
More commercials catering to the women. Men make the money, women spend it. Flame suit on...........
The most "heroic" acts of "resistance" took place over PA when the "reistors" finally got around to using a serving cart to try to bash in the door to an already-hijacked cockpit -- after they watched as flight attendants had their throats slashed and it became clear that there was nothing to lose by shouting "Let's Roll!!" -- a meal service cart, that is, according to the final offical report of the September 11 Commission...........
There you have it, and unfortunately, men seem as resistant to the truth as women. The targeting of advertising does reflect the function of the economy, to a considerable extent, and it looks like men tend to be consumers of entertainment, rather than wise stewards of their families.
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