Men are like Slinky's - Good for nothing, but you can't help but smile when one falls down a flight of stairs!

This ball park frank commercial has been all over the airways lately. If you have not seen it, take about 30 seconds now to click on the link above…I’ll wait……

So now that you have seen it doesn’t it make you angry?

Why you ask???

It’s not because I am jealous of the men in this commercial because they have a delicious hot dog in their hands, I am more upset because of the last line in the commercial which is “Men, easier fed than understood”

Really??? …………..Really????

Here is the source of my rage, We see commercials and television programs where the women is smart, sophisticated and the husband is a bumb f*** lucky to have found her.  Which she constantly reminds him of in all of the episodes.  This is made famous on one my favorite shows, The King of Queens, where Carrie Heffernan, a smart, sophisticated paralegal is constantly degraing her husband, Doug a lowly ISP worker, who seems to have some sort of mishap in almost every episode. Oh! and don't get me started on her father Arthur.....

I want to shout at the TV when I see men routinely portrayed as villains or idiots because honestly, I really do believe that men are smarter than women.

Before you start flaming me in the comment sections just hear me out.

First off, men don’t stress as much as women. This is one of the traits that I love about men. They have a devil mat care attitude which is a nice balance to the neurotic side of women.  The men that I know take each day as it comes and tries not to stress about the future. But… on the other hand, the women that I know constantly stress about the future, life, relationship, ect.  Second, men are not afraid to be just men. They show their true self and they are not afraid to be themselves. Women are constantly changing their appearance and  adapting to their surroundings ( Ladies, have you ever liked something that the man you were dating liked?) the majority of men that I know don’t do that. They have the attitude, either you like me or you don’t. 

I understand that women account for 85% of consumer purchases, But come on ladies, have we really become so narrow minded that we actually enjoy these commercials. Oh, the husbands in that commercial is like mine, DUMB.  The Theme and message in these commercials are not meant to offend, but they do. Think about it on the flip side, If they made fun of a women in these commercials there would outrage over the news ways, saying that those commercials are sexists and they don’t portray women in a good light???

But it’s ok to do it for men..

The main theme is that men are dumb, an airhead and incompetent – useless at almost everything while the woman is smarter, more intelligent, successful and more confident and skillful than the man and often she is getting him out of trouble. The women always appear happy, confident, quietly content or even smug that they have one over on the man. Note that you will only see the white man portrayed this way in TV commercials – never the black or Asian man, because we think of an Asian man as being “smart” and a black man as being “ghetto”

The real sign of intelligence is that consumers need to stop condoning these commercials and think of men and women as equals, because that is what we are and what we should be. It really is a double edge sward, and I guess big business has to sell a product somehow.  

But, have you seen the Old Spice commercials?? I will be putting that on my grocery list this week.