Watch how the "husband" behaves when the tree falls and notice his position in the next shot, to that of his wife. And naturally, his marriage is "mixed". Cowers like a pussy, doesn't shield his wife or show any courage at all. Scared, shifty-eyed little prancer. That's what AFI thinks of white men.

Sons o' bitches

I hate that shit!

Ughhh so sick of this.

Yeah, State Farm has a white guy working nights and a black guy that is never at work.

Purple makes the princess like their mattress while the white guy just stands there looking stupid before he is told to leave.

Seems only biracial couples are the only ones who can buy cars...

Speaking of cars, faguar sold a whopping 49 cars in Europe last April. How is that working out for them?

I was at CVS waiting in line to pick up a prescription and nearby was the reading glasses display. Every male-female "pair" shown in the display happily wearing their readers was mixed race.

I'm seeing it everywhere in advertising, and they are deliberately choosing more uncommon matches.

As for bumbling white men, that's pretty much the theme of every sitcom since sometime in the late 70's and early 80's.

Seeing a lot of commercials with biracial, gay, lesbian, to name a few. And white guys are often depicted as submissive or bumbling incompetents.

I despise commercials that make men look stupid or incompetent. I tried to find one or two that I really despise, but all I saw were compilations that I didn’t think covered the really bad ones.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
As for bumbling white men, that's pretty much the theme of every sitcom since sometime in the late 70's and early 80's.

The 80's the dad/leading male still had some masculinity or, at the very least some sense of self, it wasn't until The Simpson's came out where dad was portrayed as a fool and that archetype became the standard which has continued for quite some time. From The Simpson's onward, every sitcom showed the father particularly if they were white, to be uncool, idiotic, out-of-touch, or disinterested. First it was eased-in with The 70's Show, Married with Family, King of Queens, Family Matters, Everybody Loves Ramon, to Malcolm in the Middle, Modern Family, and American Dad. I've not watched broadcast programing in over a decade but, I imagine what's currently on is more of the same.

I've got no problem with biracial couples and mixed families, its fairly common HOWEVER when EVERY commercial or, every other one is showing this same composition, then its forced and a clear intention to engineer social perceptions.

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HOWEVER when EVERY commercial or, every other one is showing this same composition, then its forced and a clear intention to engineer social perceptions.

Absolutely! It's far from the norm.

In our house whom ever has the remote is reminded to mute it if they have not done pretty much immediately already done upon commercials. Some are sooooo bad the channel has to be changed temporarily. I detest about 90% of all commercials.

Years ago one of the alarm monitoring companies had a similar kind of ad, where there was a break-in at the home. Then they show a masculine police officer talking to the wife while the wimpy looking husband stands behind her.

The obvious message was that the husband is incapable of protecting the woman, and the woman takes charge.

The 'men are bad' ads hit a new low with the Gillette "We believe..." campaign about 5 or 6 years ago, where the ads showed men acting badly in many situations. Originally the bad men were of all races, but what finally made it to the TV screens were just white men acting badly.

Gillette paid an extreme feminist who had written and lectured about how bad men are to produce the ads.

We had a term back in the Army for these things - Fuck that Shit!

Anything I want to watch that isn't streamed I record. I then skip thru the commercials. Hadn't seen any for years when I recent caught one and was very surprised at how "woke" they are. Can't remember which one, I tried to delete it from my memory.

At first I thought they were gonna make fun of peppers from the first two people.

And yeah, nonsense respecting person even is gonna act like that.

I guess I'm desensitized. I didn't pick that up until I read the rest of the post.

Of course, they want the woman to be strong or they'll hear from whomever. But they're not afraid of men complaining about their stereotype. I don't think "stereotype" is the right word. I asked ChatGPT and it's called a Stereotype creation initiative. More like a stereotype campaign or propagation to me.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
...make fun of peppers...

Say what

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
In our house whom ever has the remote is reminded to mute it if they have not done pretty much immediately already done upon commercials. Some are sooooo bad the channel has to be changed temporarily. I detest about 90% of all commercials.

Same here. Mute button getting worn out.
And they have been having fat women in commercials, never thought I would see that!

Insurance companies think we're all stupid, useless, pussies. And maybe we are for putting up with their crap and paying their rates.

I had an independent guy quote me a few alternative policies a year or so ago because I got fed up with State Farm. I told him I wanted a higher deductible. Like $10k. Because anything less than that I'm not filing a claim for anyway...I'll just fix it myself. Because I'm only worried about catastrophic loss, and if I need to address anything less than that

A.) I have the cash
B.) I am more than capable
C.) if I file a claim my rates are going to skyrocket above and beyond what I saved, and
D.) if I file any claim they're probably going to drop me anyway.


He refused to do it. He just couldn't wrap his head around somebody willing to take that approach. And his premiums came in about the same as my current policy with State Farm, so he didn't make a sale.