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| Thread ID: 99248 | 2009-04-24 23:27:00 | Tower TV Car Insurance Ads are Sexist | tuiruru (12277) | PC World Chat |
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| 768165 | 2009-04-24 23:27:00 | Reading between the lines on recent posts contributors like Cicero, Scouse and Terry Porrit have lived thru’ the bra burning women’s lib, and subsequent feminist days in history. (Note: I’m not looking to involve them unless they want to be). Recently on TV we’ve been treated to a couple of ads from Tower where: 1) A couple undergoing “therapy” have a female councillor who lays a guilt trip on the husband because (despite his uptight wife) he wants to make a rational decision about the premiums for the car insurance and 2) A man in the kitchen who is so eager to for his partner’s approval that he is willing to jump thru’ hoops with the dishwasher to get her to acknowledgement that he has done well. Imagine what the feminists would have said if these roles in the ads had been reversed! “Heterosexual male and male councillor browbeat female into accepting the Alpha Male’s point of view” and “Female partner is cow-towing to male pressure to be the “good woman”” Have blokes in NZ become second class citizens or should the two guys in the ads just harden up? |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 768166 | 2009-04-24 23:54:00 | It is ONLY an advert don't take it so seriously. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 768167 | 2009-04-25 00:27:00 | sigh............. male versus female? its just a stupid add...... It is my understanding that it is the same guy in each add. and the first add denotes them going to councilling because her daddy owns an insurance firm and they are currently insured with him, regardless of cost......because she said they have too.... :p and this is where he wants to change insurance firms because tower is cheaper? and he is it seems to me in the 2nd add to be pandering to her, because ? has he changed firms and not told her? is he walking around on egg shells so as not to cause a riot? sometimes ya just do whats easiest not always what is right? I do think they are weak adds, but maybe just maybe the message is getting across because someone noticed the adds, and are grumbling about it...... any attention is better than no attention isnt it? regaurdless if it is negative or positive. It seems to be working yes? :waughh: beetle :p |
beetle (243) | ||
| 768168 | 2009-04-25 01:18:00 | I know they are only ads, but I don't like them, I don't think they are clever. They portray both males and females in a bad light. | Marnie (4574) | ||
| 768169 | 2009-04-25 01:45:00 | :lol: Those Tower advertisements are really puerile, pathetic, but well acted, especially the first ad. where the wife in profile glares at poor hubby. Anyone notice what a long neck she has? :) They have done their job if people comment about them, but they dont make me want to rush to Tower for insurance. I have never had much time for the extremes of womens lib. movement, they made too much noise and song and dance about it, and the more extreme seemed to hate the biological differences :cool: |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 768170 | 2009-04-25 03:09:00 | Oh gosh. I thought tuiruru meant "libido" when s/he said "lib". "burning women's lib" :lol: Women's Liberal Movement, duh. The advertisement is meant to be humorous, but in terms of convincing someone to buy Tower Insurance, I doubt it has done a good job. Chees :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 768171 | 2009-04-25 03:31:00 | Oh gosh. I thought tuiruru meant "libido" when s/he said "lib". "burning women's lib" :lol: Women's Liberal Movement, duh. The advertisement is meant to be humorous, but in terms of convincing someone to buy Tower Insurance, I doubt it has done a good job. Chees :) For your info....the womens liberation movement tried to remove all "sexism" from life, and tried to denigrate the male stereo-type ideas about women......like "a womans place is in the home" :banana Those who called themselves feminists seemed to me to be the least feminine. Although some good has been done, we have been left with a legacy of "feminist political correctness" gone mad, like getting rid of words that have 'man' in them like 'foreman' or chairman, or......... even manager....but that is somewhat different. In the good old days we used to have 'manageresses' and actresses, etc etc, but now we have women actors and women managers, it's not the done thing to identify a position by gender. However we still have midwives, not midpersons :clap Women who want to stay at home and look after their children have been made to feel guilty about it. Other women often ask why aren't you working ? Thank goodness for the good old days when men were men, women were women, and they enjoyed housekeeping... When I'm Housekeeping For You (www.jazz-on-line.com), and cooking breakfast.. When I'm Cooking Breakast For The One I Love (www.jazz-on-line.com) Edit:Whoops, I almost forgot the hilarious Masculine Women (www.jazz-on-line.com), from 1926, things haven't changed.....(Harry Reser and the Six Jumping Jacks) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 768172 | 2009-04-25 03:40:00 | What about those Westpac adds of a young couple. The female is always putting the male down, then stating the best thing that happened to him was meeting her. He is probally thinking one of the best things involved her, but not that he couldnt find it again somewhere else. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 768173 | 2009-04-25 03:46:00 | For your info....the womens liberation movement tried to remove all "sexism" from life, and tried to denigrate the male stereo-type ideas about women......like "a womans place is in the home" :banana Those who called themselves feminists seemed to me to be the least feminine. Although some good has been done, we have been left with a legacy of "feminist political correctness" gone mad, like getting rid of words that have 'man' in them like 'foreman' or chairman, or......... even manager....but that is somewhat different. In the good old days we used to have 'manageresses' and actresses, etc etc, but now we have women actors and women managers, it's not the done thing to identify a position by gender. However we still have midwives, not midpersons :clap Women who want to stay at home and look after their children have been made to feel guilty about it. Other women often ask why aren't you working ? Thank goodness for the good old days when men were men, women were women, and they enjoyed housekeeping... When I'm Housekeeping For You (www.jazz-on-line.com), and cooking breakfast.. When I'm Cooking Breakast For The One I Love (www.jazz-on-line.com) Edit:Whoops, I almost forgot the hilarious Masculine Women (www.jazz-on-line.com), from 1926, things haven't changed.....(Harry Reser and the Six Jumping Jacks) Enjoyed housekeeping? Yeah right! Never a Tui billboard composer around when you need one. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 768174 | 2009-04-25 03:51:00 | Enjoyed housekeeping? Yeah right! Never a Tui billboard composer around when you need one. I'm sure you didn't listen to the lyrics...."laughing not weeping, I'll go to my sweeping, when I'm housekeeping for you" :thumbs: Edit: naturally, most composers in those days were men. Interestingly, a very great many were Jewish.......... |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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