TV advertising - sexist?

this is a clip from the BBC comedy series 'That Mitchell and Webb look' It takes a very interesting look at how sexist TV advertising is... it is so funny; I had to make sure more people saw it :) enjoy

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[EclecticSceptic]

'There is no serious message behind comedy. Ever' - this is wholly untrue.

[nzperson1]

Women don't think they need to be slimmer in a vacuum though. They're given messages that slim = attractive, desirable, successful, smart from a young age through advertising and media. It's not some fundamental difference between men and women, it's social conditioning.

[KalEl2404]

Well they clearly ignored all the adverts that are sexist toward men.

[Eddie Marais]

"There is no serious message behind comedy, ever." - To paraphrase Blackadder: 'To you, satire was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?'

[ghostbirdofprey]

[sarcastic]because sarcasm doesn't exist on the internet[/sarcastic]

[EclecticSceptic]

See my comment above this one.

[OneWayRoad]

that was his point...

[jaharmon1000]

You're moronic.

[TheKlaustro]

and it is also good to be beutiful, then not being, intelligence and buty goes hand in hand

[TheKlaustro]

It is good to be smart at a young age, and there are more male geniuses...

[davebuchan81]

Lol. Agree 100% with 7CellarDoors. I would now like to remind both myself and fucking Yoda up there to stop reading the comments and just do something useful instead. Actually watching comedy would be a good start. Maybe I'm too drunk, or maybe just too brilliant to start trying to explain paradoxes to Youtube. Posting shit on here is just like shouting into a cave anyway. I reckon Pirochiro and nzperson1 also made good points.

[aaron4820]

This sketch is so offensive, to suggest that men need to shave at all, we're brilliant even without shaving, and some would say even better.