Following on from the Adverts thread, I have some questions
I CAN cook.
I CAN clean an oven/operate domestic machinery/clean a house/iron.
I DO remember birthdays/anniversaries/favourite perfumes/colours etc.

MEN.
Are you sick and tired of being portrayed as inept, beer swilling, blokey cock-ends in adverts? Isn't it time we stood up to this constant tirade of stereotyping? What can be done?*

*YM doesn't count, she's been dead a long time.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:00, 28 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You certainly whine like a bitch
no wonder you can clean.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:02, Reply)

My ex husband was the domestic god around our place.
He insisted on doing all the cleaning (apparently I never did it right) and he'd only let me cook occassionally. If we needed any new appliances/furniture/curtains/bedding, it was always him that picked them.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:04, Reply)

Tip for future reference:
He did the cleaning to remove the last traces of evidence.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:08, Reply)

I reckon if I was a single-dad-with-custody or a single-dad-widdow, I'd be totally gutted by telivision adverts.
So many kids and household products are aimed at mums, and I can't think of a single one aimed at dads.

It's not like you can say to one company "Aim for dads" and another "Aim for mums" to make it even, it's not a practical thing to enforce, so I can't think up a solution, and there _are_ reasons why they're aimed at mums (being the principal demographic), but it's still something that would really make me gutted after watching a day of telly.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:08, Reply)

Come on Gonz, what about:
No more Nails,
Cuprinol,
and that advert about peeing?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:10, Reply)

I didn't think of DIY type stuff when I said household products.
But you're right, they seem to be aimed at men.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:34, Reply)

Actually, the differance is, they're aimed at 'men', where as the things that I was refering to was aimed to 'mums' (rather than 'women'), if that makes sense.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:35, Reply)

that's fair
in advert land, there is a difference
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:40, Reply)

there were a few in the 90s
but they were unpopular and didn't go down so well, apparently. On TV it would appear we want men to be all masculine and crap at household jobs
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:10, Reply)

I always think that when ads like Iceland
specifically say "that's why Mums go to Iceland". It would make me so sad if my mum had died.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:19, Reply)

Apparently Mums are pissed off and at a loose end
cos right now, they can't go to Iceland
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 19:21, Reply)

I don't really watch adverts as they're all blah and there are way too many.
I tend to just buy whatever cleaning products work for me or what friends recommend.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:23, Reply)

and all us women ever do
is shop and be smug at men who can't do all those things you said
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:08, Reply)

I don't like people assuming that because I'm a woman
I will enjoy sitting around watching girly films, drinking wine and talking about which is better; chocolate or shopping.

I'd rather watch Die Hard, drink Jack and Coke and talk about which is better; Pagani Zondas or Lamborghinis.

I do fucking love shoes though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:18, Reply)

I don't do shopping
I don't care about shoes
I am a shit cook
I am lazy about cleaning (don't care if my whites aren't white)

Basically, I am not good at womanly things, but also I hate football and know nothing about cars.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:21, Reply)

I hate football
but I'm lazy about cleaning, my bloke is even talking about drawing up a cleaning rota. I know, right?!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:30, Reply)

man! that's bad
that's student house bad
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:31, Reply)

I love cooking, am semi lazy about cleaning,
love football, and love having clean sheets and a clean bedroom.

Edit: Woot, on a football note, the bar across the street is showing the Hull vs Aston Villa game live!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:44, Reply)

I read that as
'I am a shit-cock'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 23:29, Reply)

My missus is pretty much the same
barring when she's up on blocks. Then it's an all out, girly chick flick watching, chocolate munching hormone fest.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:36, Reply)

re. Daleks
they do seem to now come in a range of colours to suit your mood
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:45, Reply)

The new daleks are designed to be driven by women.
Hence the extra baggage area round the back and daft colours. Expect them to bump into things in the future, have no sense of direction, and generally loose the plot.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 19:47, Reply)

Ironically
although I'm a man, people still don't expect me to have any interest in football, action films or fuckloads of meat
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 19:23, Reply)

Yes, I too find those ads offensive.
What's worse is that a lot of women buy into that shit. When I was last single women were often blown away by the fact that I could cook and didn't have tons of dirty clothes and dishes lying around my place. I actually had one woman joke that if she hadn't had experience to the contrary she'd have sworn I was gay.

Not all of us men have a deep interest in sports, and many of us actually like to read, cook, talk about ideas, and have diverse musical tastes that can include the occasional Enya tune as well as Pearl Jam. Some of us even enjoy going to parks and sitting in a gazebo and watching the crowds go by.

There's a special place in hell for the advertisers who promote such sexist twaddle. Or if there isn't, there fucking well should be.
( Wanderer, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 18:59, Reply)

There's a special place in hell
for people of any gender who enjoy 'the occasional Enya tune'.

Luckily for you, the ultimate 'get out of hell free' card is your namesake 'The Wanderer' by Dion and the Belmonts. If you like that tune, I won't beat you to death with your own shoes.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 23:32, Reply)

Well, we all have one or two songs like that, don't we?
I admit it, there are a bunch of cheesy pieces of crap that still make me smile even though I know that they're dreck. (The Enya song, btw, is "Carribean Blue".)

It's okay, I have enough Tom Waits and Cat Power to outweigh them.
( Wanderer, Thu 22 Apr 2010, 1:27, Reply)

Don't do anything!
It's took us old chaps fucking years to convince women we're useless. Convince them otherwise and we might end up doing stuff.
Stop being a whiney bitch and make sense!
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 19:18, Reply)

you idiots
this type of advert is a sop to women
these adverts are made by men to fool women into thinking we're idiots so that we can subvert their attempts to revoke the status quo

yes we can clean ovens and remember birthdays, but it's better that women think we can't so we can earn more than them and do less.
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 22:02, Reply)