Re: TV advertising - sexist?

[truffyt]

Come on, it's a comedy sketch. Don't quit your day job, which in essence is all about devestating the economy of the Western hemisphere. Again.

[Sepero1]

And another thing about being a man is that you're expected to make a halfway decent video. Otherwise go fuck yourself.

If you were a sexy woman, you would have gotten twice as many thumbs up on this video.

[smellymyfingers]

I think they are commenting more on advertising (probably daytime advertising) than our society. I think it's a brilliant spoof on advertising and not really a spoof on actual society.

Of course he has his own view of the world/ pressures/ expectations of those around him that might come from the professional and the social environment he is a part of.

[smellymyfingers]

Those guys on the Jersey Shore really piss me off. I'm an "old" fat white american and I think it's funny as is the majority of Mitchell and Webb, so don't put me in a box, damnit!

[0Angel0A]

Have you ever seen an Axe commercial? 

[tjwalker]

@0Angel0A sure!

[YourDarkAccomplice]

Well commercials and REALITY are a totally different thing.

Women don't even need those products, keeping her body healthy and fit should be enough to take care of the pains/etc.

As for men keeping the pressure, naturally, every human being will be pressured about something. However, there's a reason why men are a lot more cockier than women are... and no... it isn't genetic. ;)

[tjwalker]

@YourDarkAccomplice Thanks for writing and sharing!

[ammiblue]

Wooow...you sit there with your low-maintenance shaved head and ratty t-shirt that you probably scrounged up from the bottom of your pajamas drawer...going on about how much PRESSURE men undergo from WOMEN about looking nice? Sure. The next man who complains about having to clean underneath his fingernails should be subjected to a bikini wax. Also, if you think women are impressed by expensive clothes and cars, sir, they're even more impressed by a man who doesn't act like a douche.

[tjwalker]

@ammiblue Thanks for watching. Please look at my other 1300 videos on my channel; most of them feature me in handmade Saville Row suits. Hope you find them suitably impressive and up to your high standards;)

[ammiblue]

@tjwalker I don't even know what a Saville Row suit is. Is that supposed to be something important?

[tjwalker]

@ammiblue apparently not to you, but that's OK. Thanks again for stopping by.

[ammiblue]

@tjwalker btw, I think you missed the point of my comment entirely. I do not intend to watch any more of your videos because of the attitude broadcasted in this one. Thanks.

[tjwalker]

@ammiblue and that's OK too. 

[derangedband]

one things for sure, you have very nice teeth!!

[tjwalker]

thanks!

[WKaliberr]

you moron, do you know what comedy is?

[pook2830]

It's not the fact that men DON'T have products targeted at them, or are worked upon by texts as much as men are, it's about WHAT men are targeted with opposed to women. Also, even cosmetics et al - women's ads are about being attractive FOR a man, whereas men's ads are about being attractive to GET a woman. There's a difference. Go study myth and signification.. fool. Also... it's a comedy sketch.. chill out.

[KnockoffNigeI]

Here 90%+ of ads for -consumables- are aimed at female whereas single men are targeted with beer and razor ads. Admen tend to ignore married men simply because they don't do the shopping. Maybe it is culturally specific but I'm pretty sure they don't make ads with tag-lines like: "Unsightly beard growth?" anywhere else either.

[m4lvolio]

wanker

[canadaisthenorth]

guys he's a old fat american economist, IE he dosen't know what comedy is!

[bazlmoon]

It's a comedy sketch for god's sake!!! it's spoofing the way we are advertised to! perhaps it's a bit anglo-centric (ie based on English adverts), all it's saying is that female orientated adverts seem to be negative, whereas male orientated one centre on positives. Nothing to do with sexism just comedy about how marketing people approach the different genders. It's V funny ;-)

[shrimpsunited]

Don't read so much into a comedy sketch, com'on this is mitchell and webb youre talking about! And it is also talking about advertisement not how women act in real life (which are two completely diff things) And don't generallise women, we don't just all care about fingernails and cars!

[dominofallsonyou]

Yeah, but only some women care about the stuff you're talking about. I don't, for example, and most of my female friends are the same - we don't care what car you drive. HOWEVER, I think almost every man would care if their girlfriends stopped shaving their legs, if they got fat and stopped wearing makeup.