Pizza and Music Store
Submitted by Mazdak on Thu, 10/02/2003 - 05:14.
Perfect, thank you. And no, I wasn*t looking for commercials dealing solely with the intestinal track, but my oppoent used that as ammo in his report, stating that women were never seen in these situations, I simply wanted the aforementioned ads to prove him wrong. Thanks again.
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Hey, I*m looking for two commercials here.
The first was on ads.com while it was still alive. It was a pepto bismol commercial called Pizza where the family orders pizza and everyone gets a different sickness.
The second one I only seen on TV once. It*s an Imodium AD commercial where the girl is in a music store, listening to CDs when her diarrhea comes back.
The reason I need these ads is I*m doing a counter presentation for school. One of the guys in my class did a presentation about how advertising is sexist towards men. Amongst other things he said that comercials never feature women in embarassing situations, both these ads prove that wrong. Please help me!
by "embarrassing," do you mean exclusively coming down with a case of the galloping shits, as per your two examples?
If so, "Imodium A-D - Spa (2002) - 030 (USA)" in the archive might fit your bill.
If you don*t mind moving beyond the intestinal tract, the following three might work for you as well..
Geico - Proud Parent (2001) - 030 (USA)
Swiffer Wet Jet - Whip It / Devo (2003) - 030 (USA)
Swiffer Dusters - Whip It / Devo (2003) - 030 (USA)
OooH! Sexism in advertising! Who would have thunk it?
It seems quite fashionable lately to point out the sexism towards men in advertising. "men are only bumbling fools" and "men are used as the comedic relief". This is true, but in all fairness 90% of ads containing women is sexist in the same ways and more, so the boys will have to forgive me for not having a bleeding heart in regards to their cause just yet (I*ll join when we kill all sexism in ads...Mmmkay?).
For your fire I offer this fuel - a very typical american beer ad. Spot the women who are not only there to serve as eyecandy - thats right, there are none. Men play sports drink beer and meet buddies. Women tan. Even better, TWINS tan. woohoo.
Coors Light - I Love... - Here*s to Summer (2003) - 030 (USA)
In advertising land (still hanging around the beer ads) we can be sexist towards two generations of women in one go. This ad is embarrasing, and sexist and just yuk all over. And hey, the woman (mother) is the comedic releif. Watch is and weep boys, you might even laugh!
Bud Light - Worst Nightmare (2003) - 030 (USA)
ANd now, in to the usual domestic situation in Advertising land. If mommy is not at home, where is mommy? WHy SHOPPING of course.
JCPenney - Where Is Your Mother? (2001) - 030 (USA)
this one is a good example of equal oppertunity sexism, we all know men know nothing about babies and the only time mother ever leaves the house is because she*s shopping right?
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Advertising land relies on stereotypes and bumbling idiots. Some of these stereotypes are oldfashioned, sexist and racist. These are not good thing no matter who*s getting the short end of the stick, male female, black, gay, straight. To imply that only men are getting the short end of the stick (when in fact you are a man) is ignoring the females, the blacks the asians (who more often than not speak with heavy L accents and are just carbon-copies of other stereotyped asians) the gays and so on. Yes, men are often the bumbling buffon, but it*s not like the women aren*t sexobjects, the idiots, the fat butt and so on.
To round it off you might want to watch this ad, aimed at business women in 1969.
United - best businessmen, are women - 060 (USA) 1969
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