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Originally posted by mpeake
While I don't take personal offense to this commercial, I do feel that men in general are portrayed as bumbling fools in just about every form of media. Name one family sitcom where the father is good at taking care of the children and is not labled the clutz of the parenting duo. Or one commercial where the father is able to handle the responsibilites of rasing a family. Sure, almost everytime they show a father in that light, it's intended to be comical, but what does that do to the image of a modern father? You almost automatically assume that men are bumbling idiots when it comes to child raising. I'm a new father of a one yr old boy, and all of my co-workers and friends make the same assumption of me. I don't take offense to it becuase it's commonplace to think that, but that doesn't necessarily make it an accurate assumption, does it?
Originally posted by mpeake
While I don't take personal offense to this commercial, I do feel that men in general are portrayed as bumbling fools in just about every form of media. Name one family sitcom where the father is good at taking care of the children and is not labled the clutz of the parenting duo. Or one commercial where the father is able to handle the responsibilites of rasing a family. Sure, almost everytime they show a father in that light, it's intended to be comical, but what does that do to the image of a modern father? You almost automatically assume that men are bumbling idiots when it comes to child raising. I'm a new father of a one yr old boy, and all of my co-workers and friends make the same assumption of me. I don't take offense to it becuase it's commonplace to think that, but that doesn't necessarily make it an accurate assumption, does it?
Originally posted by astoreth
Sorry, nothing wrong with that video.
I would suggest that the fathers who believe something is wrong with it and go out of their way to jump up and down may have some kind of "inferiority complex" me thinks.
Be a real man - get on with life and stop whinning about irrelevent wastes of time!