I have noticed recently that a lot of TV ads are somewhat prejudiced or else protray negative stereotypes. Maybe I am being oversensitive in my slightly drunken state old age, what do you all think?
There is a dating one which irritates me as it includes, amongst catgeorising people into single parent singles, divorced singles etc, 'black singles'. I imagine if there was a 'white singles' section there would have been a bit of a fuss over that.
The WeightWatchers one pees me off because to me (already trying and failing to do WW) it implies that until a woman is thinner she is not quite a good mother or partner as she could have been.
There is one for a gambling site where the final shot is directly down the woman's cleavage as she chucks money in the air. Just seems unecessary, why is she being sexualised to promote this website?
There is one for computers where a man is on a train squashed against another bloke going on about his awesome laptop. As the camera pulls out, the entire carriage is just full of men, mainly in suits, wtih briefcases or laptops. Not a single female that I spotted. Do women not also catch trains during rush hour and also need effective laptops? (Implication to me is that they should be at home or else not 'doing business' where the men are.)
Then there are the usual grocery supermarkety ones, which always just show the woman shopping or serving food to the men and children.
The specsavers ad is just on, the man is the vet, the woman is the vet's assisstant.
Benson's for Beds shows a middle-aged woman getting into the shower, towel around her, a hint of cleavage. Yet she tests out her bed fully dressed. So what is the point in us seeing her getting in a shower?
