Poor Babies
I feel bad for you. I really do. It must be horrible dealing with a stereotype. And to see that stereotype every TV commercial break—well, I can hardly imagine! Poor men. How your self-esteem must be destroyed every time you see a man selling cleaning products or talking about cooking for his family.
It must be particularly difficult to see other men used as sex objects to sell things. Like the Axe body spray commercial. It’s pretty disgusting. A group of men get one whiff of the spray and become horny, mindless animals.
And you know, now that I think about it, it does seem that every other commerical I see on TV shows a man bending over as he serves a woman a beer/pizza/whatever. Men in bikinis. Men in lingerie. Men eating things in a slow motion, sexual manner.
And then the commercials where men are shown as shoe crazy! Ugh! Or when chocolate is shown to be the most important part of a man’s menstrual cycle! And lets not forget the fact that men only eat salads or low fat yogurt/cereal/whatever.
I really think women have it easy. All they have is the one stereotype of the buffoon to deal with. Honestly, I can totally see what Rush Limbaugh was complaining about today on his show—the stereotypes of men in commercials. It’s insulting! Poor fellas. You got to feel for them. It must be simply horrible to have to deal with those stereotypes every time you turn on the TV or open a magazine. Gee, I really am glad that men have someone like Limbaugh to look out for them. We wouldn’t want their feelings hurt, would we?
