RSSThe Sexist, Rotten Super Bowl Advertisements
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This editorial talks of how the Super Bowl ads were crass and sexist. Let us face the fact that class is nearly gone from Hollywood.
Super Game, Stupid Ads
I would like to know who is the marketing weasel who selected Won’t Get Fooled Again to be played as the players took the field? The Who performed at half time, so that just reaked of not being original. Oh well, Mean Joe Green, here’s to you. And where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
I liked the Betty White ad.
Quit whining. Only “some” of the people who play sports are thugs. But let’s digress a bit and put it into perspective. Some portion of players come from the hood. They grew up with little or no money. They could never buy the things they wanted. Now they have $80M thrown at them. They’re able to spend $10 large on dinner and drinks. They have an entourage of “yes men” to pump their ego. They are just human and have succumbed to the weakness of the human condition. Yes they are responsible for their actions, but I believe Henry Blackaby said this, or maybe it was Max Lucado paraphrased “The problem with the darkness is not that is dark. THAT is its nature. The problem is with the light, that does not illuminate the darkness.” So applying it, the players who are balanced, and responsible are the ONLY ones who can help the wayward players. No one else can. If the balanced players do not help, then the condition will continue.
On Ads.
Each generation is more permissive than the previous. See my previous statement about the dark.
This is a core problem. Parents don’t want to parent. Now video games proliferate and kids are in front of the games 8 hrs a day.
Citizens are not voting in the elections. They only complain.
Residents are not attending the town meetings and having their voices heard.
Parents are not volunteering at their schools, little league, boy/girl scouts, pick up trash on the road, help their elderly neighbors, help the family down the street who just lost their primary income. They don’t know their next door neighbors.
The question is answered everyday, by everyday people, with their everyday actions.