IF WE WERE LIKE THE TV COMMERCIALS

IF WE WERE LIKE THE TV COMMERICALS

NOBODY CANBE THAT INEPT

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I can’t help but laugh when I see the ads on TV and the Internet. Come on, now! No one can be that stupid!! Or inept!!

Many display humans as inept, idiotic, helpless, hapless creatures who fumble their way through life on a constant basis. Yet, these ads are the brainstorms of the Admen (advertising geniuses).

The entry level starting salary for an advertising person is approximately $50,000 while the department’s manager can earn, at the lowest level $101,000. What you create and what the manager thinks he can do with it determines how fast your salary can rise and to what level.

And yet, these are the people who make us all seem as though the Scarecrow from Oz had more brains than we do.

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Let’s take a quick look at some of the ones that irritate me the most.

Bras!

Never in my life have I had such a problem making a bra fit as those poor inept women depicted on TV. They struggle and pull, push, and squirm, and yet, their bras just won’t fit!

How about buying one that happens to be your size? Huh? Did that ever cross your brain? Why are you buying one that is at least three sizes too small and then exhaust yourself trying to fit in it? Really? We women are NOT that stupid!

Storage containers for leftovers!

Can you imagine opening a cabinet door to find a container for your leftovers and have hundreds of them fall out on your head? Me either! They’re stackable for a reason.

While I applaud those who aren’t wasteful enough to toss their leftovers away, these commercials make you wonder just how stupid the admen think we are. Truly, they’ve never tried to organize a kitchen.

Oh wait. Many of these admen are just that – MEN! They rarely have to organize a kitchen.

It’s not rocket science to store the containers inside each other and then make a separate pile for the lids.

Slimming Underwear!

I’m no different than thousands of women who have extra “rolls” on my body. Thigh muffins? Love handles? Whatever you want to call them, I have them. Yes, that includes belly fat. Sometimes I look in the mirror and realize, “Hey, I’m the momma of the Michelin Tire Man!

Yeah, I’ve seen those commercials. They’ll show a plus-size women who now is trying to fit in a size one pair of pants. Really? Come on, guys! You know she’s already embarrassed about her weight. Why make her feel worse by making her look pitiful?

Oh right! You want to sell the “slimming underwear” for your client. “Watch the fat disappear!”

No, the fat doesn’t disappear. It’s just squashed in that tight underwear that will inhibit your breathing, so the fat won’t “juggle around” each time you move. The fat is more constricted and by the way, did you notice that the fat now has made your boobs look bigger? That’s right. The fat isn’t gone. It’s just redistributed upward and squashed downward.

Even after losing more than 30 pounds, my body still shows the Tire man’s rolls, and my upper arms look like bat wings. While the weight came off, the skin didn’t!

Commercials aren’t just geared to make women look stupid. They do the same for men.

There is a commercial for a certain brand of paper plates. I’m sure you already know which one I’m talking about.

The man cooks a really nice spaghetti dinner for his date – AND PILES THE HEAVY PASTA, MEATBALLS, AND SAUCE ON PAPER PLATES!!!

Really, how moronic is that? Now, Hapless Harry is walking from the kitchen to the dining room with one filled plate in each hand.

Ah! He’s doing just fine – until, until he gets within inches of the table and his date and PLOP! One plate bends dropping all the food in her lap and ruining her pretty white dress.

First of all, why, if you’re trying to impress someone, why are you serving any dish of food to company on paper plates? It’s not a picnic, you knucklehead! Secondly, nothing as heavy as pasta with sauce should ever go on paper plates.

I’ve never met a man who is that stupid!

There is a new ad on TV. It’s for pre-packaged, pre-portioned, pre-programmed food. Buy the food AND the new Tovala machine.

The woman does fine. Loads the machine, scans the cooking instructions and voila! Her dinner is done and “you cannot get this from a microwave.” Ah, now it’s the man’s turn. He loads the machine, scans the instructions and as soon as the buzzer goes off, he opens the door and touches the hot aluminum pan! Ouch! How stupid!! (Didn’t the commercial director even catch that goof?)

Why are we treated as though we have less than half a brain?

The answer is simple.

The admen are trying to market a product for a particular company that thinks they can make our lives simpler and easier. They are out to make money and don’t care if the average consumer can or cannot afford it.

The problem with this kind of thinking is this: if we bought all those “simplifying” items, we’d either go broke or need to move to bigger house to accommodate them all – or worse, be forced to move to a bigger house and then go broke because the bigger house is more expensive than where we originally lived.

Oh, I wish I had a brain!! Wait, I do. I DO have a brain!

While it’s true that in certain areas, men might be more capable than women, it’s also true that in other areas, women can, without a doubt, outshine men.

No matter how you look at it, we are definitely equal. I know my own personal limitations but then, so does my husband. He leaves the computer work to me, and I leave the many home repairs to him. No one in our home is superior. And that’s how it should be.

Commercials need to start changing. In many cases, people are being depicted as intelligent humans, but we still have a long way to go.

We don’t need more gadgets to keep plasticware from falling on our heads. I don’t need a universal lid that fits all the storage containers. I don’t need a new frying pan that, no matter what they say about food not sticking, it still does.

What we need are informative commercials that will give us the pros and cons of any particular items so we can decide for ourselves if that item fits our needs.

After all, if we use our brains and not fall the for the Admen’s example of how they depict us, not only will we not fall for their ruse, but we’ll save a few dollars in the process.

I’m an intelligent woman who doesn’t need a bunch of useless items to make my life a happy and fulfilled one.

How about you?