You are so right - this trend has been bothering me for several years - the Wonder Bread ad where the husband dances around like a little kid and his wife has to remind him that he needs the car keys, the ad where the husband is so dumb he goes out in the pouring rain and his wife has to remind him to use an umbrella. My "womyn" accquaintances come right out and say that it is "payback time". They think that because women were made to look stupid in the 50s & 60s that it is only fair that they do the same thing to white males. My answer to them is "Two wrongs don't make a right". They don't care.
Of course... there is some faint truth to the stereotype. I had a boss, a professor, who would wear these polo shirts that were too small for him, then like gray slacks (also too small) without a belt. Then he would go to the restroom and when he came out there would be a little what we termed "shirttail penis" sticking out through the fly.
Also, he would tuck the shirt INTO his white cotton briefs and then the slacks would sag down in the back giving all and sundry an opportunity to make a judgement on the quality of the laundering.
It gets better. A friend said she was (not) looking and found herself thinking "he wears 34-36" and then she realized that if she knew that, the briefs must be on inside out.
That kind of thinking is so dumb. The white males who are being lampooned now either weren't alive in the 50s and 60s or were really young. They couldn't have been the ones who "made women look stupid." So why should they suffer now?
I'm a female, but I won't buy any product whose ads ridicule white males. They wouldn't dare do such a thing to women or non-whites!
It's still okay to make fun of women. But the thing is, they have to be obviously Southern.
Thanks for the post glgb.