Female alert--American Airlines thinks we all live to cook---

[candy]

An ad in the current Newsweek(Oct 25) shows a woman returning from her business trip dragging her suitcase towards a gate that says"Saving your kids from another night of Dad's cooking" in answer to a statement they posed,"We know why you fly"

I don't travel on business anymore but my daughters do, and they sure don't arrive home from a trip to start cooking a great meal for the family.

Can you imagine AA having an ad with a man dashing home to cook dinner?

End of rant,but I'm pissed!

[demnan]

1. Absurd how sexual stereotypes manage to insult

both women and men at the same time! That's an equal opportunity insensitivity!

[candy]

5. Right---Dad's a bad cook,Mom's a good one-----

Thanks for pointing that out. I AM the lousy cook in my family.

[redqueen]

2. Gotta keep the sheep in line!

:puke:

[BiggJawn]

3. Uh, my daughter PREFERS my cooking...

to her mother's.

So THERE, AA...:P

[skygazer]

4. Why does it seem we're going backwards?

I've noticed this trend with a lot of ads and commercials. We're going back to mom in the little print apron making home cooked meals for her hard working lord and master. :puke:

Just recently, I read an article somewhere about some idiot who stayed home with the kids for six months while his wife worked. He wrote a damn book about it!

Now, I spent 25 years raising kids and working full time. All I've got to show for it is some gray hair and an anti-depressant habit. This guy spends six months playing house and gets a frigging book deal! :wtf:

[BiggJawn]

6. It's the Dominionists, I tell ya!

They want ALL women chained to the stove and knocked up...

[nickinSTL]

12. I've noticed this stuff a LOT

Men are, according to commercials, inherently incapable of:
1. cooking
2. supervising/watching their own children
3. doing any basic household chores (unless it's fixing something or mowing the lawn)

Women are interested in: (not necessarily in this order)
1. cleaning house
2. cooking
3. their hair/skin/wrinkles/etc.

[Phillycat]

19. (Kids freaking out) Dad: "Where is your MOTHER?"

[Boomer]

13. Have you also noticed...

... a really distasteful trend over the last few years of showing women as the nag who tries to keep her husband from buying high tech toys or beer or high-powered trucks or a host of other Guy Toys.

The dynamic is one of wives playing the role of a repressive disapproving adult and the husband as this fun-loving guy that has to find some tactic for getting what he wants.

This is wife as mother to a rebellious teenager rather than an equal partner. Which is really really twisted when you think about it.

[PNsC]

20. How about the ad where the wife keeps popping into

the den to catch the husband having fun instead of paying the bills.

I hate that one.

[Boomer]

25. Yup, that's one on my hate list, too

As if women don't pay bills or play with computers. No, we're just the sad drudge who would be offended if our spouse was having fun while we were off dusting or washing dishes.

[TaleWgnDg]

7. huh? wha? wtf?

are you saying my wife canNOT cook? :::wink:::





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[RaleighNCDUer]

8. We're moving ahead to the past!

Somehow that's not as much fun as Back to the Future.

[carpediem]

9. my husband is by far a better cook than me.

i don't like to cook and usually don't. He cooks and I clean up.

What a horrible ad.

[Spinzonner]

10. Oh quit complaining

At least she wasn't barefoot and pregnant

:)

[Phillycat]

11. Another one: Chile's commercial.

Man comes home from work, from down the hall, wife calls, "So what do you think honey? Red or see-through?" and when he comes around the corner, loosening his tie, she's holding two plastic containers, one red, one see-through.

I think the concept of the ad is half-way clever, but it reinforces so many stereotypes, it still bothers me.

[Modem Butterfly]

14. Ads speak in stereotypes

They're a kind of cultural shorthand to get a message across quickly. I think it's more lazy than sexist, but that's still not an excuse.

Personally, neither of my parents could cook. My mom is an artist who used the smoke alarm as a timer. I was thirteen before I realized other people didn't eat their rice "al dente". The only thing my dad knows how to cook is barbque and breakfast. When I was very small, my mother went into the hospital for an operation and was off her feet for a week one winter. I remember watching the whole neighborhood turn out to see my father huddling for warmth around the grill, too out of eggs to cook anything else and too stubborn to order out. Let's just say my brother and I learned to cook for ourselves real quick.

[HEyHEY]

15. Calm down

Let's say it was the other way - what would the complaint have been then?

[Phillycat]

17. Oh look, "calm down". What a suprising choice of words.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

21. Don't get all hysterical

I bet she's on the rag, what do you think?

*sarcasm off*

[Phillycat]

22. LOL

[Pithlet]

27. Calm down?

Did you really just say that in response to a complaint about sexism in commercials?

I hope you weren't serious. It's hard to tell on DU, sometimes.

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. Oh, silly.

Now how's about a pie?

:evilgrin:

[cvoogt]

18. Back to the .............. 50's!

Politics is returning to the 50's in some senses (McCartyism) and the Christian Reichwingers want the return of predictable suburban life. Gotta keep the flock of sheep in line if you want them to follow orders and consume. As the Christian Right gains power (which will NOT last), companies have started thinking they should target what they perceive is a growing ultra-conservative demographic. Ain't nothing wrong with being conservative IF the thing you're conserving is actually worthwhile. It's idiocy to preserve something just because it was there when you were born. Bush hails from this mentality and it shows in him not ever admitting a mistake, because "peace is on the march" and he is showing "resolve." At least a flip-flopper THINKS once in a while about the course taken so far. Bush just keeps going on a downward spiral without ever questioning it. Luckily, downward spirals have something in common with toilets, and that's the direction his pResidency's headed.

[CanuckAmok]

23. One observation...

The ad is suggesting the wife's occupation is more demanding and significant to the family.

[Pithlet]

28. If that is so?

Then why is it assumed that SHE will be the one cooking? See, that assumption is what is sexist about the commercial. It's sexism both ways. The assumption that the dad is always the horrible cook is also sexist. My dad is and grandfather were EXCELLENT cooks.

[MissMillie]

24. How come

when the woman comes home from work, the man and/or kinds doesn't (don't) have dinner on the table for her?

Or at least he should be at the airport picking her up to take her out to dinner....

[GingerSnaps]

26. It's called reheat

A can opener and a microwave come in handy.

[Ellen Forradalom]

29. It's an insult to good male cooks

In our house, it's Dad who does most of the cooking.