Most sexist beer commercial ever?

Wow. At this point I'm more bewildered than offended? I read that and thought, huh?

I'm sure the peeve will set in soon enough, once I figure out what the?

Must be my computer. I saw the lady with the beer in her belly. That was it. I tried to replay but it takes forever on dial-up, so I have no opinion except most commercials are pretty boring and I go back to reading my book when they come on.

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Originally posted by 1234567:
[b]Anyone remember the Japanese car ad that used the colour of a woman's black eye to advertise the colours of the cars available?[/b]

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You can't be serious.

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Originally posted by M.Gregus:
[b]The commercial features a cyborg woman with the "Heineken DraughtKeg" -- a beer keg -- in place of her uterus.
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Oh good, they finally made that organ do something useful. [img]tongue.gif" border="0[/img]

No idea what is going on

when it comes to a lot of things German, Sweden or Japanese I have to say I do not get it. I don't get the humour and the message in commercials usually goes over my head. I don't always get surreal twists to things. I have stopped trying to understand.

Someone sent me a video where in Japan there were 3 or 4 porn couples having a sex championship in a wrestling ring to a crowd of 2000 or 3000 people in a stadium
It was really surreal.

oops.

[ 27 August 2007: Message edited by: Tommy_Paine ]

Three Europeans walk into a bar and one of them says these jokes were funnier before the Common Market.

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Originally posted by jrootham:
[b]Three Europeans walk into a bar and one of them says these jokes were funnier before the Common Market.[/b]

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HAH!

Isn't saying "most sexist beer commercial" the same as saying, "most racist neo-con" or "most sexist rap lyrics"? Like, what gives?

Regardless, I did not find the Heineken ad that sexist. Strange yes, but not sexist. After watching the commercial, I am not craving for a beer. So the ad must not be that effective, unless the goal of the advertiser was to generate controversy.

A recent sexist commercial would be that KIA car ad with the policewoman making out with the dude in the car. That was blatantly sexist.

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Originally posted by Michelle:
[b]I think this beer commercial is more sexist than the one in the opening post:

I laughed when I understood the joke, but then I thought about it...basically, this guy used sexual harrassment to force his wife/girlfriend to leave the room and the movie she was watching.

Kind of nasty. Amusing at first, until you really think about what is depicted.[/b]

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I thought he was using the stereotype (mentioned above) of the drunken slob... because that's the way he was acting. And it's a 0% alcohol beer. He used the sterotype to deliberately get her to leave, at which point he switched to the sports channel and stopped acting drunk.

Hmm... watched it another four times, just to check my reactions.

It's a 50-second ad. He makes two approaches that are rebuffed -- that's one section of the ad and it lasts under 10 seconds. They're obviously in a long-enough term relationship -- they're living together.

I have problems calling what he did "sexual assault". Tried to kiss her cheek once, fell face first into her lap and was quickly and easily thrown back into his corner of the sofa. She rebuffed him and left the room. He did not pursue her and insist on foisting his attentions on her.

I'm not going to expose my personal history, but I am not going to broaden my definition of sexual assault to include that. Boundaries with one's significant other are more relaxed than they are with strangers or arm's-length friends. One could argue that maybe I should change my definition, but I have yet to be convinced of it.

Look at maps of where it is OK to touch someone, and for significant others, that map is much more extensive *in private*.

Yes, Ideally, that should not have happened, and he should have come home, seen she was watching a movie that she liked, and he left the room. There's no comedy in that. Comedy frequently stems from reversal of expectations. in a safe way where nobody is hurt (when people are hurt, like Cordelia dies in King Lear, it's tragedy)

I tear that ad apart, and I see a relationship between two people, and an episode playing off stereotypes. I don't see it as inherently sexist and demeaning as a sexy female android whose body cavity is a brewpub (and let's be serious -- they had to put it there because it's the only place on the body that's big enough to hold a keg. It replaces the uterus. It also replaces the heart, lungs, and digestive system).

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Originally posted by Michelle:
[b]Yes, I get the joke. I understand that. But they make it look funny for a guy to chase a woman out of a room with unwanted sexual advances that he continues with well after being rebuffed, to the point where she has to fight him off and leave the room to make it stop.

I guess it's okay to sexually assault a woman as long as you're only PRETENDING to be drunk, in order to chase her away from the TV?[/b]

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Neither of those subjects is the topic of discussion under the rubric of "Most sexist beer commercial ever?"

A simple reading of the harrassment charges against *coworkers* (not one's significant other) shows we're not talking the
same thing.

This advertisement has nothing to do with pedophiles.

"Slippery slope" arguments are lazy ways to argue, and are rhetorical devices employed to get people to react emotionally rather than deal with the subject. I'm not going there. This is about a beer ad. Nothing more: nothing less.

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Originally posted by 1234567:
[b]In Richmond, BC, firemen have been sexually harassing the women firefighters and they have managed to get several to quit.

Should we allow commercials with pediphiles using chocolate bars to lure children as a way to sell chocolate bars?[/b]

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First of all, the fact that they're living together in a relationship doesn't mean she can't be sexually assaulted by him, or feel the threat of a sexual assault.

Secondly, what I saw in the ad was:

He kissed her, she pushed him away, making it very clear that the answer is no.

That's where it ends. Everything after that is assault. Even if you're his property - er, oopsie, I mean wife or girlfriend.

He then leans forward and kisses her again, and moves his hand up her thigh. She pushes him away again. Then he falls into her lap. He persists until she fights him off and stands up and angrily runs out of the room.

Haw haw. That's so funny! A woman is chased out of her own living room by her partner groping her repeatedly while she tries to get away.

Unfortunately, a lot of guys don't see that as sexual harrassment or sexual assault. A lot of guys still don't get that "no means no". A lot of guys don't get that most sexual assault happens in the home, and that much of it isn't even RECOGNIZED by men OR women as sexual assault.

He groped her again and again after she'd made it clear she wasn't interested. What's more, he premeditated it - he knew all along that his advances were unwanted, and planned to chase her out. He PURPOSEFULLY assaulted her, it wasn't just a case of whoopsie, I didn't realize she really didn't want me to grope her.

The more I watch this ad, the more pissed off I get about it. This is why a lot of women don't feel safe in their homes. This sort of thing is laughed off as cute, or funny. Isn't it hilarious when women are chased out of their homes by unwanted sexual advances? When the only way you can get your husband to stop groping you is to fight him off and run out of the room? Tee hee! Gosh, that's a knee-slapper.

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Or alternatively, one can just treat the male firefighters as sex objects too. That's much more fun.

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I needed somewhere to post this article. It is not a beer commercial but it rivals any of them in the most sexist commercial category.

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Can we blame Mad Men for this?

I'm talking about Toshiba.ca's new ad campaign. As if their laptops weren't humiliating enough, the Canadian wing of Toshiba has opted to embarrass itself with a trio of wink, wink, nudge, nudge videos. The ads portray the buxom company spokesperson as a kind of exotic dancer using office equipment in lieu of a pole. According to the copy, Lucy is just the sort of "pro" to unstress (or did she say undress?) tech-buying boys.

She recites double entendres as she stretches in her low-cut yoga top, and the camera gets a shot of her ample cleavage. Another frame has Lucy on all fours, butt to the camera, tilting her pelvis up invitingly in what is ostensibly an ad for a copier. But perhaps the most telling shot is of our amateur yogini on her back, with a Toshiba tablet on her groin, thrusting upwards as if engaged in coitus with the fondle-slab.

Say, did that ad really just tell us that if we buy a Toshiba tablet we're going to get screwed?

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/06/23/Tits-N-Apps/

Dude. I shouldn't have to point out that you could get yourself suspended for writing stuff like that. You could have made the point without the joke.

But that aside, the fact that more sexist things exist out there is not relevent. The ad is still shocking and awful.

Wow Abnormal wake up and pay attention to what you just did.  Take tablet out of mouth and apologize.

I liked the analysis in the article about Toshiba.

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Apparently, Toshiba commissioned a survey that showed workplace stress due to malfunctioning equipment is common and many office workers like to relax by having office romances(!) Thirty-one per cent of office workers feel flirting reduces stress. Another 14 per cent go for full-blown romances, with tablet users being twice as likely (at 27 per cent) to dip their pens in the company ink. So Toshiba decided to conflate these findings and Lucy was born. Her goal is to "... demonstrate the reliability of Toshiba business technology in a fun and sexy way."

Yes, because it's just so important that office equipment be sexy.

Reading that survey -- do 11 per cent of men really use a broken printer as an excuse to flirt with a colleague? -- all I could think was someone needs to get to these respondents before the sexual harassment suits are filed.