Just saw a new commercial for some fragrance or other.
Cop pulls over a driver speeding or whatever, and gets the driver up against the hood and is frisking her down. Finding that she smells incredibly good, he starts rubbing her all over and grinding up against her from behind.
Oops, now wait, I’ve got the genders mixed up. It was a female cop and a male driver. That makes it all better.
point made, and brilliantly -
Nothing to add, 'xcept that it sounds about right. Nice to see those double-standards waving tall and proud. . .
I know. It’s not fair!
Dante I’ve been feeling uncomfortable about this type of double-standard thing for some time now. Some of the women who don’t object to these things say stuff like, “well, now the tables are turned”. In other words, men treated us like chattel for years, so now, in order to make things right, we have to do the same to them. Bullshit! Two wrongs don’t make a right, no matter what kind of cologne it’s wearing!
I think it is because if you look at society as a whole over the years… the men are always in a “more powerful” position than women are.
Men are the stonger sex, usually have the more important jobs, and usually seen as the aggressor…
If the situation happens to a woman… she will be more affraid than if it happens to a man…
a man will most likely not stop her because we are horney bastards…
but if a man wants to stop them… 9 time sout of 10 the man will be strong enough to push away…
If a woman wants to stop a man… 9 times out of 10 she will not be able to…
I don’t have any problem with the comercial becasuse it is almost every males fantasy to have that happen to him…
and it is probably every womans nightmare if the reverse happened…(not every woman… some of you are freaks)
You’re damn right. It’s just not fair.
I smell good. I’ve been pulled over. Has a sexy lady highway police officer ever handcuffed me, thrown me in the back of the car and made wild passionate monkey love to me? NO! Never! Madison Avenue is lying to me! Damnit, I want some sexy lady cop nookie!
And don’t get me started on that pizza delivery job I had in college. Where were the hot, lonely housewives in skimpy nighties asking for “extra sausage”? Was the porn industry lying to me, too?
Chill, Dante. The sexy lady cop ranks up there with the nurse and french maid as a male sex fantasy archetype. This is just playing on that fantasy.
For the record, if my wife ever got dressed up for sexy lady cop nookie, I’d assume the position. Probably not the “approved” position, but let’s not quibble.
It’s the hypocrisy that gets me. I’ve heard that in applying equality standards to commercials, the people responsible for such things switches the sexes, and if it still looks okay, it’s a go. I have no cite for this, Mrs. Dante told me so. (BTW, Mrs. Dante was FURIOUS over said commercial).
Does anyone remember a car commercial wherein a guy was looking at a car while he and his SO walked by it, but his SO thought he was looking at another woman. She got his attention by slapping him in the face. Mysteriously, the slap in the face was edited out of the commercials some time later. [Robert Stack]Where did that slap in the face go? Some say Canada. Others, Toronto.[/Robert Stack]
I strongly disagree. If a cop (any cop, any sex) was obviously frisking me just for sexual purposes it would scare the living shit out of me. Cops are powerful, regardless of their physical strength.
Count me as another who hates this sort of double standard.
I especially hate it when some people say, “Well, men oppressed women for so long blah blah blah”. Bullshit. I’m 22 fucking years old. I’ve done no oppressing whatsoever. I have, however, had to put up with this strange backlash for what my ancestors are accused of having done.
Sorry. Just one of my “issues”. 
Dante,
I agree that if this were a real life type of thing, very wrong.
However…
This is a commercial. It sells sex, hope and dreams. Okay, hope and dreams ABOUT sex, so maybe we can just say ‘it sells sex’. 
Most commercials are sexist and stupid.
Why are the majority of cleaning supply commercials showing stick thin white women? Is this a double standard too that we don’t see more MEN on their knees going after invisible dirt?* (Or heck even a natural lookin’ woman once in awhile would be nice!) I know when I’m cleaning I’m in my pressed kahki’s and crisp white linen shirt while frantically scrubbing a spotless house. Yep, the t.v. shows reflect reality THAT well. (Let’s be honest, how many here are lucky if they’ve got any sort of clothing on at all while desperately cleaning before the in-laws come?)**
I guess I don’t see this as a societal double standard. I see it as just another sexist, stupid commercial trying to brain wash people into buying sexist, stupid stuff. shrugs
I don’t think commercials adequately reflect society to be a ‘double standard’ horror story.
Love,
Lady
*I know this isn’t the best example, just the first to come to mind! When you think of it though, it IS a double standard. The actual proportion of women vs men cleaning the house is probable much better than t.v. commercials lead us to believe.
**Not that I have in-laws yet…but I watch ‘Everybody loves Raymond’, I know what it’s gonna be like.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t see it reflecting an ACTUAL double standard to be a big deal…not that it is not a double standard in and of itself (and it’s a stupid commercial, like those horrible deodorant commercials!)*
I have a friend, female security guard at an all women’s prison. She has the outfit, the cuffs, the club/stick thing, but she would never harass the few men who come into her world.
The commercial just reflects the continuing double standard against both men and women in many areas in commercial land…not just this one against oppressed men.
So, I’m not disagreeing, I just think this is one of many cases of stupidity.
*All I’m saying is that no man I’m dating is wearing ‘Axe’.
There’s a few commercials for Axe body spray, I think, that follow the same pattern. In one a mailboy goes to the female exec’s corner office for a delivery and she says to him, “Nice Package”. Image a female secretary moving a bookshelf and the male exec saying “Nice rack”. Probably wouldn’t sell too much perfume.
Or the nebish being pawed by the gorgeous female in the elevator because the previous guy in the elevator was wearing the same scent.
But hey, sex sells. Might as well scream at the tide.
OK, don’t mind if I do.
DAMN YOU, TIDE! YOU PROMISED TO POWER AWAY TOUGH STAINS AND MAKE MY SHIRTS SMELL SPRINGTIME FRESH, BUT I STILL DIDN’T SMELL GOOD ENOUGH TO GET ANY LADY COP NOOKIE! DAMN YOU WITH ALL THE BRIMSTONE IN HADES, TIDE!
And thus fulfills my FDA recommended bad joke for the day.
Quite possibly, one of the funniest things I’ve ever read on these boards.
The funny thing is my roomie wears this stuff. I’ve had the hots for him for awhile but when I come home and the house smells like it… I just want to curl up on his bed naked and wait for him to come home.
Then again if it was just some random guy who I didn’t feel attraction towards in the first place, I probably wouldn’t have the same reaction.
But there is a chance that you would, right? How much does this ‘Axe’ stuff cost?..
I was on the verge of typing something similar to what Brutus posted…
Then I looked at Obsidian Flutterby’s location…
In your dreams…
Story of my life. 
I love those Axe commercials, but I’m pretty sure this post alone will sell more Axe than their entire annual ad campaign. Jesus.
It’s unnerving as hell the first time, but you get used to it.
What?
LOL… okay guys. Yes there is the possibility there. I find the scent itself is yummy, even when he’s not around and I smell it I get that reaction.
And LurkMeister, If you really want you can email me
I just followed through Obsidian’s link to the Axe website, and for some reason the list of usage warnings cracked me up.
Happy Fun Ball, anyone?
Oh, the OP. Yeah, the double standard is really stupid, but these are fantasy commercials. They don’t attempt in any way to portray appropriate behavior for men or women.