Target Women: Doofy Husbands
The Modern Woman is expected to work, raise children, keep a clean house, do the laundry, cook, and generally manage her home and family like a prosperous corporation (remember those?). We know that it is impossible for The Modern Woman to do this without the aid of several thousand dollars worth of appliances and all-surface cleaning sprays...but is something else holding her back?
Yes. The villain is in her own home, in her own bedroom and has possibly spawned children with her. Commercials provide incontrovertible evidence that the villain is: her doofy husband. Ladies, beware! For you too may be harboring a man doing more harm than husbanding.
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Wait! What about the really hot women married to the dumb fat slob sit-coms?
As a wife and a woman, I thought that was well..... really lame. It wasn't funny and it wasn't clever.
This is probably a backlash from the "ditzy wives" portrayed in the 1950's. "Loo-oo-ooocy, you have some 'splaining to do!" Too bad so many husbands and wives can't treat each other with the mutual respect that "'till death do you part" should merit.;
Even if Sarah Haskins intention was to take a shot at the commercials instead of husbands themselves, does not change a thing. These commercials are usually both degrading and sexist toward men. If that sounds familiar, maybe it's because that's what women have been fighting against for so long. However the problem is that instead of just wanting it to stop all together, many people have the attitude that it's time to make men suffer. Last time I checked that's not justice, it's called revenge. Also, the commercials are not the only problem. Have you looked at a sitcom lately? TV shows and movies are filled doofus men in general.
Whether some want to admit it or not, there is a serious double standard. I can assure you that commercials with idiot women would not be tolerated by women's groups. As a husband (who was once a single dad for years) I find the growing trend disturbing. Also, with a super high divorce rate and all the horror stories you hear, I don't think these commercials are doing the marriage industry any favors with a young man's view of marriage.
Oh, please. TV shows and commercials are filled with idiots of both sexes.
Really liefletter? If that's the case, then you should easily be able put together a small collection of idiot wife commercials just as Sarah Haskins has done with idiot husbands.
that's really funny, amazing...
This was funny?
Okay, that was freaking HILARIOUS!!! And yes, I'm a married man.... Sadly, I'm more like the husbands in the commercials..... To be fair to the wife, I was like that BEFORE she married me....
I have to endure a terminally condescendant wife. Thats it! She has been watching to many commercials!
Ahhhh, yes the irony.
Advertisers portraying doofy men as clueless knowing full well women are the ones who shell out the dough for most of their clients needless products.
Mostly woman buy pretty packaged, watered down stinky chemicals that mostly all do the same thing.
Women are THE consumers. If it was up to us "doofy men", we wouldn't have a cabinet under our kitchen and bathroom sinks that hold nail polish removers and other toxic and flammable cleansers that smell like "summer ocean Hawaiian breeze " or paper sheets of fabric softener to throw in the dryer so every item including my athletic socks smell like a feminine hygiene spray.
Women are magnificent. But STOP "dou-ching" REAL fresh air with Glade "fresh air" potpourri!
peace
out :-)
Ahh, Sarah, thank you for admitting we are better at barbequeing. Snap, Uh-huh,
Oh, Yeah. We da men!!
Hmm, we were cool and smart until we got married. I think I see the problem her.
Oops, wife coming got get off.
Very funny!
P.S. I'm male.
You men who don't see the humor in this are doofy. She's making fun of commercials, not actual men.
you got it
Is this even legal?
As a husband who:
Remembered all the anniversaries, birthdays and Mother's Days
Never received an anniversary card, gift or Father's Day anything
Did most of the cooking
Did most of the parenting
Did most of the earning
Did most of the repairing, laundry, and general chores, etc, etc, etc. THEN became a single parent after she left...
I think I'd get my ass sued off if I made a 'wifey' version of this skit.
there are more of us than even we know... I have three parenting buddies... happened to all of us.
the best thing now is when we have a barbeque or get together with the kids... everyone loves the fact that without the women around there is no stress!
Some guys like a sausage fest.
Oh, lighten up. You didn't laugh? That alone makes you a doofy husband.
It's kind of funny that a woman got you to do all that. You remembered all the sentimental woman holidays? I guess she wore the pants!
Please leave the 21st century
It's about keeping the peace for the benefit of the children.
Dude...chill..it's called sarcasm. Most women do what you have stated above and don't whine about it, are never appreciated, and anguish over their ex-husband's lack of child support (who by the way, always seem to have cash for the new gal). Yet, when an occasional guy (such as yourself) steps up to the plate, y'all expect the Nobel Peace Prize.
Join the club and take it for the team without all the belly aching.
I don't remember nominating myself for the Nobel Prize. The point I tried to make is that we have a double standard for gender discrimination.
The skit in question would be funny if it weren't for the reality that one could never make a reverse version without being reviled and probably litigated into destitution.
I don't regret a moment I spent with my kids nor any of the things I did to make their childhoods as safe and caring as possible.
No prize needed, thank you. Just a single standard.
I stopped watching TV regularly about twenty years ago, and this portayal of men was one of the reasons I cited then.
Keep up the good work.
I think I'll start crying about this after I finish having to tivo through 20 commercials of naked/half-naked women acting slutty over beer or bouncing around as window dressing as part of the 'plot' of most tv shows.
We have a common enemy--let us form an alliance against the evil corporate 'persons', that we may smite them.
Or maybe we could just turn off the TV? (and not watch any movies? or subscribe to magazines? etc.)
btw--Haskin's did a hilarious piece like this (an earlier segment in the 'Target Women' series) about how women's hair is portrayed in commercials. Guys, if this segment is touching a sore spot, if you check out that 'hair' segment, it'll put this one in a new light--you'll quickly see this isn't meant to be hurtful (in other words, guys, she's on our side!).
Boo hoo.
...and the networks are losing sleep over that...
If you started watching tv again for just a few days you would see commercials where the WOMEN do all the house work, are in charge of laundry, sanitizing toilets, keeping the floors clean. Where are the men? On the few days a year I stay home from work I watch some of the horrible daytime shows to see what's happening. All these women with children and no fathers around. And btw i believe we're all part of the problem.
Can't wait to watch that video at work tomorrow where I have sound on the computer! We all need to laugh more!
you know, my livein girlfriend is one of the best friends, I've every had... it's been 6 years now... pretty, very low maintenance, independent... but even she admits female neurosis... But we've found happy place - I don't watch 'housewife' reality shows, in fact I leave the room and do things like answer blogs... I dont snap to withever mama ain't happy... normally as the saying goes, if mama ain't happy, ain't no body happy. Yeah well, I've been married before. Holding out the 'tang doesn't scare me no more. I don't take out the trash 'cuz she says so - I do it when I was already headed that way anyway.... sometimes, I'll just up an do it, I'm evolved that way. In my defense,I don't work two days of the normal working week. (but I do work on traditional weekends) So, she doesn't ever come home to dishes in the sink, baskets of dirty laundry and unmade beds. I do it 'cuz we're partners - when that isn't good enough... I listen to her bitch, light a cigar and wait 'til the venting is over... I don't play into it.. ain't got the time... And thanks to her, my sense of humor is finely honed.... I get it...
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