So you probably recognize these photos...
Here's the New York Times:No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.
More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous.
For instance, in a commercial for Bud Light beer, sold by Anheuser-Busch, one man beat the other at a game of rock, paper, scissors by throwing a rock at his opponent’s head.
Awful.
P.S. - I'm working on my first case!
3 comments:
Mr. Lee,
It is my distinct pleasure to fire off another shot in the Great Debate. The new topic of conversation is: Are men necessary? If so, what role are men supposed to fill? Obviously, we aren't supposed to be the strong silent Gary Cooper/John Wayne types. On the flip side of the coin, we aren't supposed to be complete wussbags either. So how would you define the role that men are supposed to inhabit in Modern American society?
S.J.
Nope. I don't really think men are necessary.
I don't really see where you're going with this, so I'm going to ask you for some sort of explanation of your own so I have some idea of what to say. I'll only say that I think macho machissmo behavior is moronic, and well-defined gender roles along those lines are more destructive than productive.
Of course, being an eyewitness to a living, breathing patriarchal society has made me hate many things that "real men" stand for, so I'll just let you start this one.
P.S. Will you people stop using my name on these comments? You're the kid who explicitly told me to stop using your name on the blog, thus I spell it Rawjer Sakker.
1. The difficulty with using names on the ol' blogspot is when you use them together. Like if you typed Cassius Clay. I've been pretty careful not to include your first and last names next to each other. And there are 8 million Lees on the other side of the Pacific, so I wouldn't worry to much.
2. Certainly I agree that machismo is dead, although maybe some machismo is good. To explain my question further, where do you see the average man in relation to the average woman. In whatever world context you'd like to look at. Speaking in generalities, for instance, in the context of the workplace, men still expected to be ruthless dealmakers, while women who are engage in the same conduct are disparaged for being bitches. On the other side of the coin, men who would like to be more involved in parenting are portrayed as pansies. Or take the dating game (and again speaking in generalities). Men who seek to date intelligent, successful women are often in a quandry. Ask her for a cocktail, and you've painted yourself as the leader, and an entrenched member of the status quo to boot. Yet, if you would like to sit and wait for them to ask you, it isn't going to happen.
Maybe I am painting a very general picture, but lately I have been getting this feeling that men are tad bit superfulous. We aren't needed to be the providers, we aren't needed to bear children, we aren't needed to be part of an accepted and succesful relationship, we aren't needed for companionship. So what are we needed for?
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