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>The ads will be different though, they'll show examples of how men, preferably white men, were being portrayed as bumbling no-good-for-nothing idiots who only
by belltaco 5y ago
>The ads will be different though, they'll show examples of how men, preferably white men, were being portrayed as bumbling no-good-for-nothing idiots who only survive because there are women around to help them along. It is as if the creatives had a look at those old ads and thought 'good idea, we just need to adapt it to current popular culture'.
Examples of such ads that you claim are running now?
- hagbard_c 5y agoLet [1] me [2] show [3] you [4] some [5]... and these are just the first few hits on a search for advertising white men. Want more examples? Just search for them or - the horror - watch some commercials. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/business/media/men-are-becoming-the-ad-target-of-the-gender-sneer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/business/media/men-are-be... [2] https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/08/its-time-to-stop-bashing-white-men/ https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/08/its-time-to-stop-ba... [3] https://www.cantechletter.com/2017/07/men-always-idiots-tv-ads/ https://www.cantechletter.com/2017/07/men-always-idiots-tv-a... [4] https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-depressing-depiction-of-men-in-the-media/ https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-depressing-d... [5] https://digiday.com/marketing/copyranter-go-ad-joke-still-white-male-moron/ https://digiday.com/marketing/copyranter-go-ad-joke-still-wh...
- bluewhale77 5y agoWell, they see it as punching up. Now, the editors at Facebook and these magazines really believe that women desperately need encouragement from their adverts to becoming scientists and doctors. I'm not sure if much has changed.