http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WkbC4lh4k
this is a real commercial on daytime tv
Objections to commercials like this are always put in the form of “oh, what if you had your 5 year old daughter on the couch with you” or some vague “is this appropriate?” but really it’s just embarrassing to have sexuality attached to products. It’s such a ridiculous prospect that you can plainly say this is an awful way to format life.
I can imagine bloggers saying “oh but here the woman is turning the men into an object how transgressive” or “how many layers of irony, very effective humor” and I see an image of these people in theater seats clapping at a pile of garbage in a junkyard.