[envisio]

Whats funny to me are mainstream commercials.

Usually there is a short story. Usually there is a smart individual that uses the advertised product and a stupid individual that does not. The commercials enact a short story that portrays a smart person that uses the product winning in a situation where the stupid person does not use the product. Thus the stupid person is humiliated.

100% of the time the stupid person is male as in a husband or boyfriend. 99% of the time the male is white.
100% of the time the winning smart person is black or female.

NEVER is the person portrayed as the fumbling idiot black and the winning smart person white. EVER.

[Old Yeller]

Whats funny to me are mainstream commercials.

Usually there is a short story. Usually there is a smart individual that uses the advertised product and a stupid individual that does not. The commercials enact a short story that portrays a smart person that uses the product winning in a situation where the stupid person does not use the product. Thus the stupid person is humiliated.

100% of the time the stupid person is male as in a husband or boyfriend. 99% of the time the male is white. 100% of the time the winning smart person is black or female.

NEVER is the person portrayed as the fumbling idiot black and the winning smart person white. EVER.


Yep! I point this out to my wife on every commercial. I call it commercial cuckold. They would dare show a black person or family as stupid or incompetent, cuz that would be racis. Its only acceptable to show white males in that light.

[metalurgist]

NEVER is the person portrayed as the fumbling idiot black and the winning smart person white. EVER.

You are right. I pointed this out to my daughters the other day. This BS has been going on for years.

[JimRed]

NEVER is the person portrayed as the fumbling idiot black and the winning smart person white. EVER.

To do so would be (all together now) RAACISS! Besides, that's the way it is in real life! < /sarc >

[Colinsky]

NEVER is the person portrayed as the fumbling idiot black and the winning smart person white. EVER.

Not quite, Geico has a currently running commercial showing a stupid black male advising us we can get away with not rewinding our DVDs when we return them to the video rental shop.

[redangus]

ATT commercial with the five smart, confident business women and the milquetoast white man standing in the background keeping quiet and following the lead of the powerful women in the group. Even Mrs. Redangus finds that commercial distasteful.

Brinks commercial from a few years back where house is broken into. The husband is shown cowering in the hallway with little boys while the brave, take charge wife talks to the alarm company.

I could go on, but you get the point.

[lormand]

Look at some of the insurance commercials. State Farm has the crossed eyed freak white guy who rear ended the smart innocent black guy. He winds up insulting his mom who tries helping “your not helping”.

Then there is another insurance commercial where the white guy uses a chain saw and cuts a limb right on the car of his black neighbor.

The criminals who rob people in commercials....white guys, all of them.

[2rightsleftcoast]

Absolutely!!! Also, the man is always the dumb one and his wife is the smart one. I’m a woman and I can’t stand it.