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Title: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: DixieBelle on June 13, 2008, 11:01:40 AM
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You’ve seen him plenty of times on sitcoms; he’s the dumb, bumbling, idiot dad, husband and boyfriend who appears useless at everything but bringing home a paycheck. The message: Guys are dumb and women have to lead them around. This, of course, cues the laugh track. Yet a survey from an organization called Children Now found that two-thirds of kid respondents described men on TV as angry, while respondents from another group’s survey said men were portrayed as corrupt on TV by a 17 to 1 margin. Clearly, this is no laughing matter.

To highlight companies pushing anti-guy messages, we’ve compiled a list of the worst male-bashing ads from 2007 and 2008. Whether husbands are portrayed as useless, stereotypical men or absolute airheads, our list of worst male-bashing ads exposes them all.

Check out which worst male-bashing ads are the main offenders.   


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Some of the them are funny. But yes, the "Menz R stoopid" routine gets old.
Title: Re: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: Uhhuh35 on June 13, 2008, 11:09:36 AM
Guys get bashed more simply because we take it better than women do. We'll just scratch our nuts, belch and move on. Mention a woman's shortcomings or make fun of her and you've got a war on yer' hands.

On Edit: Maybe the guy who wrote the article, Marc Voyer, is just a whinny little metrosexual like the ones on "Friends".
"I'll be gay for you"!
Title: Re: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: EastFacingNorth on June 13, 2008, 12:36:20 PM
Guys get bashed more simply because we take it better than women do. We'll just scratch our nuts, belch and move on. Mention a woman's shortcomings or make fun of her and you've got a war on yer' hands.

On Edit: Maybe the guy who wrote the article, Marc Voyer, is just a whinny little metrosexual like the ones on "Friends".
"I'll be gay for you"!

I don't know, maybe he is a whiny little metrosexual.  That doesn't mean he does not have a valid point.

True, male-bashing ads and television shows and movies are no big deal, and if these were the only examples of anti-male bias in the US today, then there really wouldn't be much to get upset over.  However, these sorts of ads are very mild examples of a very real anti-male attitude that is pervasive in our nation - from family courts, where men are de-facto assumed unable to raise children, and assumed guilty of heinous acts without a shred of proof indicating their guilt and with no defence allowed; to criminal courts where when men and women are convicted of identical crimes with near-identical circumstances, the man is many times more likely to get a more severe sentence than the woman, than he is to recieve the same sentence as the woman; to schools, where typically male behaviors are discouraged, even punished, while typically female behaviors are encouraged, to the effect that boys are falling farther and farther behind girls in the education gap; to colleges, where despite the fact that more women enroll in college than men, special scholarships still exist just for women, while AFAIK no such scholarships exist exclusively for men.

Title: Re: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: Rebel on June 13, 2008, 02:02:11 PM
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You’ve seen him plenty of times on sitcoms; he’s the dumb, bumbling, idiot dad, husband and boyfriend who appears useless at everything but bringing home a paycheck. The message: Guys are dumb and women have to lead them around. This, of course, cues the laugh track. Yet a survey from an organization called Children Now found that two-thirds of kid respondents described men on TV as angry, while respondents from another group’s survey said men were portrayed as corrupt on TV by a 17 to 1 margin. Clearly, this is no laughing matter.

To highlight companies pushing anti-guy messages, we’ve compiled a list of the worst male-bashing ads from 2007 and 2008. Whether husbands are portrayed as useless, stereotypical men or absolute airheads, our list of worst male-bashing ads exposes them all.

Check out which worst male-bashing ads are the main offenders.   


Ads at link. http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10_300/327_top_10_list.html

Some of the them are funny. But yes, the "Menz R stoopid" routine gets old.

I love you. Now go iron my shirt.  :-)  :bolt:
Title: Re: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: DixieBelle on June 13, 2008, 02:49:48 PM
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You’ve seen him plenty of times on sitcoms; he’s the dumb, bumbling, idiot dad, husband and boyfriend who appears useless at everything but bringing home a paycheck. The message: Guys are dumb and women have to lead them around. This, of course, cues the laugh track. Yet a survey from an organization called Children Now found that two-thirds of kid respondents described men on TV as angry, while respondents from another group’s survey said men were portrayed as corrupt on TV by a 17 to 1 margin. Clearly, this is no laughing matter.

To highlight companies pushing anti-guy messages, we’ve compiled a list of the worst male-bashing ads from 2007 and 2008. Whether husbands are portrayed as useless, stereotypical men or absolute airheads, our list of worst male-bashing ads exposes them all.

Check out which worst male-bashing ads are the main offenders.  


Ads at link. http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10_300/327_top_10_list.html

Some of the them are funny. But yes, the "Menz R stoopid" routine gets old.

I love you. Now go iron my shirt.  :-)  :bolt:

 :rotf: :tongue:
I gotta put my shoes on. I've been barefoot in this kitchen all day.
Title: Re: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: jinxmchue on June 13, 2008, 11:26:38 PM
Guys get bashed more simply because we take it better than women do. We'll just scratch our nuts, belch and move on. Mention a woman's shortcomings or make fun of her and you've got a war on yer' hands.

Yep.  Make fun of a guy, it's comedy gold and guys laugh along.  Make fun of a woman, you're made the target of a witch hunt for being a sexist pig.
Title: Re: Worst male bashing ads
Post by: jinxmchue on June 14, 2008, 11:03:27 PM
:rotf: :tongue:
I gotta put my shoes on. I've been barefoot in this kitchen all day.

Guys only care for that if the reason your barefoot is because you is nekkid.   :hyper: