This comment by David Pisarra, Esq on the post VIDEO: Hill Holliday Makes a “Men Are Stupid: Ad for LG
WOW! I’m so shocked that yet ANOTHER campaign is based on men being stupid and women being superior. She belittles her husband/father of her children, any wonder why marriages don’t last? As a divorce lawyer for men, I can say that it is this type of male bashing that leads to the loss of respect between spouses and then they land in our office.
If the roles were reversed and the “little woman” was belittled there’d be a huge outcry. But it’s just us men, who will most likely try to shrug it off as “just funny” which is what happened when I pointed out the domestic abuse in the Pepsi Max Commercial for Super Bowl three years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPO5lSXI1ZA
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Is it stupidity or laziness and fatigue that prevents us from taking action against destructive and insulting advertising?
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It depends who you mean by “we”, I would think.
For most men I would expect the reason to be internalized sexism — not finding anything wrong with those messages; or feeling that to complain would mean to “whine”, which is something men are not supposed to do.
For the readers of GMP I think it sometimes is a feeling of futility. How to move mountains with our bare hands? But let’s not forget, some of us are actually taking action. I know I have in the past, and when the need arises I will do so again.