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Funny? Funny? An ad that so clearly objectifies men as bumbling, inept nincompoops, another in a long line of oppressive stereotypes? You need some conciousness raising, bub. There are any number of such gathering places for men to share thier experiences at the hands of female chuavinist piglettes. Take a hanky. They are usually called “bars” (for some obscure reason). Listen quietly at the door first, just to be sure. If you hear something that sounds like “..first and ten on their own twenty-five..”, you found one, go in and share in the healing.
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Thank goodness we finally have Fox News to give a voice to the oppressed white male.
I haven’t seen this particular gem of a commercial (or if I have, I’ve blocked it out - ha! See what I did there?), but with regard to the woman standing and the guy sitting with his head basically at her crotch level - there are no accidents in advertising. If you think something could be mis-interepreted in a very dirty fashion, that’s on purpose. I actually really admire that about advertising.
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I haven’t seen this particular gem of a commercial (or if I have, I’ve blocked it out - ha! See what I did there?), but with regard to the woman standing and the guy sitting with his head basically at her crotch level - there are no accidents in advertising. If you think something could be mis-interepreted in a very dirty fashion, that’s on purpose. I actually really admire that about advertising.
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That’s cute, but in this case, it’s bullshit.
The man is sitting at a computer, using the product in question, while the wife walks over to him after doing something else. I’m sure the reason she didn’t drag over a chair to sit with him was because the advertisers wanted to throw in a hugely subtle “talk to the box” joke about her vagina.
Anyone who thinks that his head is level with her box is in serious need of an anatomy lesson. Either that or I’m not remembering the commercial very well.
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Thank goodness we finally have Fox News to give a voice to the oppressed white male.
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It’s not just the WHITE male who’s made to look stupid, and not just the WHITE female made out to be the ball-buster in most TV couples ads ads. Black and Asian men, too, are ineffectual imbeciles oppressed by harpies of their respective races.
TV still hasn’t wrapped its head around bi-racial marriages or Hispanics yet but, trust me, white wife belittling black or Asian hubby is right around the corner as is the Spanish-language equivalent of “Talk to the box”.
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That’s cute, but in this case, it’s bullshit.
The man is sitting at a computer, using the product in question, while the wife walks over to him after doing something else. I’m sure the reason she didn’t drag over a chair to sit with him was because the advertisers wanted to throw in a hugely subtle “talk to the box” joke about her vagina.
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I guess it was noticeable enough to have a whole thread about it on the internets.
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Umm - its a “block” - get it? :smack:
(Or was that supposed to be a loud whooshing sound? If so, you are doing it backwards…)
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“Hsoohw?”
I caught the tail end of this ad the other night, and I realized that if that were me, my reaction would be “Right! You’re so g*ddamed smart, YOU do the fucking taxes this year, Mrs. Know-it-all!”
Probably wouldn’t make that good an ad, what with the cursing and all.
Many people are unsure of their math skills, or are afraid that Big Government will persecute them over a small mistake. And they won’t get a software package because they’re as afraid of their computer as they are of math.
A genuine tax service is invaluable to these people, but I found out almost 40 years ago that Block is not a tax service; it’s a loan company.
When I graduated from high school, Block sent me a coupon good for free tax state and federal tax filings ( “A $10 Value!!!”). They made the usual claims of “We’ll find you gazillions more deductions than you can find for yourself.” And, of course, they couldn’t because I was just a kid living with his folks and working a job that paid about 40 cents above minimum and had not even a gazillionth of a gazillion “hidden” deductions to be found.
I figured my taxes myself in less than 5 minutes, then went to Block and played dumb.
They got the exact same figures that I did. And then…came the pitch for their REAL product, the usurious “Instant Refund” loan that would have consumed about 30% of the approx. $100 refund I was due.
