Are Commercials Getting Too Sexist?

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I personally think commercials these days are way too sexist. Like the Blingitude commercial. The girls all seem so pissy and stuck up, and it's really sexist. And not just because this is coming from a tomboy, but i find it really sexist. And then most food commercials are really sexist to boys, they always have to make it seems like the boys eat too much and always want to eat more, like the Hot Pockets commercial or whatever it was. I'm getting really pissed off with this stuff, and if you plan to read this and tell me I'm too sensitive and over react to this stuff, then just leave. But what commercials do you think are sexist to either boys or girls?
 
It's not sexist, it's modern gender sterotypes.

An average American girl (Let's call her 'Cindy') is generally depicted by the common dude as idolizing Hilton/Spears, wanting a cell phone, and wearing makeup in the first grade.

An average American boy (Lets call him 'Jumbo') is generally depicted by the common dude as always hungry, idolizes football, and an insane transition between childhood and teen years.

That's what I expect most people's stereotypes resemble.
 
hardly any of them. if you think today's commercials are too sexist, look at some of these vintage ads:

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Well, that how girls I know act.

And frankly, guys like being portrayed that way.
 
...To an extent.

Everybody's an individual.

Screw being portrayed as a pig, I'm vegetarian!
 
Well, no, me neither, but most guys I know don't mind.
 
Yeah, I hate it when the commercials make it seem like the boys eat too much and can't seem to ever do anything other than drink beer. That's really sexist right there. They make the boys seem really lazy and the girls seem really stuck up and pissy. Like the girls on the Blingitude commercial:

"Blingitude is a girl's BFF, AEAE."
"My jeans practically invented blingitude."
"When it comes to blingitude, sometimes less is way more."
"And sometimes more is way more."

Then they all start laughing like little b****es and they always seem to portray the boys as having no sense of fashion, which is also sexist. Not only that, everyone in that classroom except the boy who stood up to spell the word and the boy who asked if he had blingitude WAS A GIRL.

Good God, the boy just wanted to know the definition of a fake word, he didn't ask the pissy girls to start being all sexist.

And I'm pissed with boys always being portrayed as having no fashion sense and eating alot and being lazy. Boys work alot harder than most people think, but do girls not eat alot sometimes either? And EVERYONE's lazy at some point.

Yes, this is all coming from a tomboy, so I can relate to both sides.
 
Guys have fashion sense? Since when?
 
Hahahahaha, this isn't sexism at all. It's a stereotype.
 
I mean all these commercials make boys seem like they can't dress themselves. I mean, I HATE fashion stuff and just walk around in Anime and Video Game shirts, but the way they put it makes them seem like they can't manage to zip their pants.
 
ashfangirl said:
I mean all these commercials make boys seem like they can't dress themselves. I mean, I HATE fashion stuff and just walk around in Anime and Video Game shirts, but the way they put it makes them seem like they can't manage to zip their pants.
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well, considering a majority of guys have exceedingly low hanging pants nowadays, they might not know how to zip their pants. Considering it wouldn't reveal anything that isn't already displayed to the world.
 
I always wonder how those guys keep their pants from falling all the way down... Maybe they saftey pin the front to their undies.

Idk, I'll stick with comfort-fit jeanz, thank you very much.
 
Boys who feel it is normal to have their rear sticking out of their pants exposed to other men are not 'gangsta.'

They're another word that starts with g.

*is jumped by 'gangstas'*
 
Dewgong Rain said:
An average American boy (Lets call him 'Jumbo') is generally depicted by the common dude as always hungry, idolizes football, and an insane transition between childhood and teen years.

That's what I expect most people's stereotypes resemble.
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I could care less, probably because this stereotype describes me perfectly. I guess that's why I've never had problems with stereotypes before because I fit into the media's description of a typical teenage guy.

But that being said, the fact that way that women are used to sell products (beer is the worst offender) is getting kind of ridiculous.
 
People watch commercials? Much less care what's going on in them?

guys will buy anything a hot girl is selling.
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I never got the mentality behind that, do they think buying the product will allow them to have sex with that woman?

It's like AXE products. No one buys them from effectiveness, they buy them because they likely truly believe they will have sex with all varieties of attractive women. Doesn't change the fact they all smell like ass.
 
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