Does anyone else hate the Burger King "I am Man" commercials?

[BlueStorm]

It is so chauvinistic. Like how is eating a burger supposed to make you a "manly man"? If it supposed to be satire then I don't get it. All I know is that it is stupid.

So what do you think?

Blue

[HughBeaumont]

1. None of the females I know eat "chick food".

If I served the wife something like the leaf, squirt and meat crouton in that commercial, she'd be like "where's the rest of it?"

If anything, wouldn't eating burgers make you an "intestinally backed-up" man? Or a "tapeworm king"?

Just ask the Duke of Doubt:

[Awsi Dooger]

2. Obviously they're working

This is the second Burger King commercial thread in a few days. Some commercials don't even make it clear what product or company they're promoting. Or that genius Diet Pepsi spot where the focus is a can of Diet Coke.

Burger King has got us talking about Burger King. Tonight I think I'll have two chicken tendercrisps.

[HughBeaumont]

4. I'm craving a Whopper right now.

I haven't eaten one in four months, damn it. I get a Whopper (no mayo or cheese) and chase it with a Double Cheeseburger whenever I feel the need to indulge.

Super Size Me be damned, I used to be able to eat 2-3 whoppers in one sitting. Regularly.

Yep, at 37, can't do them shenanigans anymore.

[Hosnon]

3. I think it's hilarious. nt.

[johnnie]

5. Honestly

It's unnerving.

[Name removed]

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[Danger Mouse]

13. Well gee...that's pretty hostile...

We're not all bad...

[Jamastiene]

16. Here we go again.

Like I said, many men act and think that way and have that mentality, and you show up and call me hostile. How much stupidity should be tolerated before a woman dares call a caveman a caveman? In other words, your own inner hostility may be showing.

[Danger Mouse]

17. You said a lot of things that infer hostility.

I didn't disagree with the fact that many have that mentality. Lord knows I grew up around those types.
But didn't you even say yourself you had a chip on your shoulder about men?
All I was saying is...we're not all bad.
And inner hostility towards who?

[Jamastiene]

19. Any woman who dares speak up.

The entire mentality of the last million years or so has been one of women being somehow less than. Yes, I have a chip on my shoulder because I keep hearing about how we women have our rights, right alongside comments like "Let a man do that. That's man's work." Meanwhile, I have the higher grades and the knowledge to do the job right. Yeah, I'm tired of that mentality. Obviously, you have a problem with that or with any woman saying anything about it. That's the inner hostility I was talking about. I noticed you didn't even reply to the OP either. Typical. Saw something complaining about machismo men and came looking for a fight. Well, here it is.

[Danger Mouse]

21. I didn't reply to the OP because it didn't interest me in particular.

I didn't reply to you because I was looking for a fight, really.
I said a few words, and you made a lot of assumptions about me and my motives based on them.

[skygazer]

64. At least she didn't call them douchebags

:hide:

[Hosnon]

67. Excuse me...this is not the Lounge!

Oh wait...

[Jamastiene]

145. I didn't call them Bitches either.

Or tell them to go get a baby aspirin for prostrate cancer. I do so love how some men feel the need to make rude ass comments about women, but God help any woman who fires a few rounds back. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

[Taverner]

118. You know men AND women are merely animals

And I would venture to say that women are no different then their counterparts in the cave.

[Jamastiene]

146. If it wasn't for women wanting things to be better,

most men do openly admit they'd be perfectly happy in the caves. So, things really haven't changed. And no laws will ever change them. You are right about both men and women being animals. Too bad humans feel the need to see our own species as such gods most of the time that the truth cannot be uttered. Gasp.

[Alexander]

14. I see misandry is still alive and well on DU.

The right wing doesn't have a monopoly on hating certain groups of people.

[Jamastiene]

18. Neither do many men on DU.

This makes two in a row that didn't answer the original post, just looked for something to jump on and did it just to be all macho. This time, the difference is, someone gave you a reason. The misogyny isn't dead on DU either, btw, as evident lately way way too often, and it goes unchecked and undeleted, for the record. This time someone just gave you a reason. See the difference now? Prolly not. I rest my case.

[omega minimo]

96. yup

[Danger Mouse]

20. Men are talking about how good women have it nowadays?

Are you kidding me?
The fact that it took so long for women to get the right to vote makes me sick. The fact that women are still frowned upon when they become successful, makes me sick. A lot of those people that hate Hillary Clinton, do so because they're intimidated by a powerful woman, but are too chickenshit to admit it.
Just think of the good old days...the kind, benevolent, master/father, the subservient and obedient wife/slave...
This kind of idiocy really amazes me. Condescending assholes.
This country is run by white Christian males, and has been from day one. It's easy for them to look down their nose and mock.

[Jamastiene]

22. I kid you not.

If I have heard it once, I have heard it a million times, "You women have your rights now. No complaining about making less because it's against the law now. You wouldn't shut up until you had equal rights." Yet, we do still make less, and we do still have to fight for every ounce of moola we get. That attitude is still very much alive and well in this hateful world. Witness...The George Bush man's man. They are exactly the group of men those commercials are really aimed at, you know; the ones with that mentality. "I'm a man's man. I'll eat as much slop as I want." :puke: I'm sick of those types running the whole world.

[Danger Mouse]

25. I wish it wasn't...but yeah, I grew up with it...so I've seen it...and those sorts of people...

George W. Bush is such a perfect president for this country in that respect. He embodies all that pigheaded machismo perfectly.
All across the world, women are abused, oppressed, and mistreated by male-dominated societies that view the woman as a second-class citizen or worse.
In this country, women are sneered at or mocked by those in power. Seems like that all the time. Women are ALLOWED to be somewhat successful, but it's still frowned upon. John McCain said he would KILL himself if Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the house. People were practically shitting themselves over it. WOuld they have been reacting that way if it was Jack Murtha who was slated to become speaker?
Women are ALLOWED to be successful, but are EXPECTED to be stay-at-home submissive housewives.

[Jamastiene]

147. So true. It takes any recognition of accomplishment away

for women to still have to put up with it. Somebody should hold McCain to his word if he dares run for president and point out that he is not a man of his word. Too bad Pelosi is going to have to still fight tooth and nail in that special "women only have to go through this bullshit" way even though she has earned her position just the same as any man there. I just wonder why more men don't form organizations or groups to fight the macho bullshit. Most women would be more than happy to help out and join that fight. It could accomplish something, if nothing more than sending a message that the macho mentality needs to go back to the primordial ooze and evolve some more before calling itself civilized.

[unpossibles]

86. honestly, I am sick of them too, and I HATE that commercial

not only as a man, but as a vegetarian. I find commercials like this to be demeaning to everyone, honestly.

I know this is off topic, but perhaps the reason a couple of people took issue with you is that you said:

Ladies, we should have left them in the caves. They are only good for lifting heavy stuff. We have hydraulics and motor controls for that now. Cloning does away for any further need of them too. Get ready to go extinct men. Mother Nature has found a way to protect herself from you. You are no longer needed.

I understand your frustration, but I don't think anyone wins by pushing people who are potentially allies away. I would not respect this behavior if it were about any prejudice - if you were a man saying this about women it would be equally wrong and shocking.

I am not attacking you, but we all are responsible for our actions and words.

[Jamastiene]

144. Most of the men I know in real life would openly rather be back

in the caves. They have said as much. They don't like civilization. They blame women for everything that is wrong in the world and lament the glory days of the caves, just like they lament the glory days of slavery, legal wife beating, and general sorriness on their part. That's the truth as I know it. Like I said in the subject line, "many men." But of course, the men I have seen replying to me seem to like to take that as meaning them. I do find that odd. If you know it doesn't apply to you, as in you know you aren't the misogynist, then what's your real problem? Or does it apply here? In other words, do you really think that way? And if you do think like that, then exactly what is your issue with me telling the truth?

[krispos42]

30. So you are advocating the repression of women?

Think about this. You are advocating the removal of the male gender from the planet as being unworthy to exist.

Do you think men are simply going to say "Oh god, she's right!" and blow our own head off after politely digging our own graves in the back yard?

No, we would fight, which would mean conquering the female population and enslaving them. Which means turning back all of the progress made in the past couple of hundred years. It would mean surpressing the rights of women to vote, own property or businesses, hold office, or get educated. And we'd have to enforce this with brainwashing. Through religion. And we'd have to scrub the entire history of women's liberation and sufferage from the collective memeories of society. All for the sake of our own survival.

I'd rather not have that. Wars for existence tend to be very grim indeed.

In fact, I'd rather live my life, not raping or degrading women or dragging my knuckles on the floor, just being a productive member of society, working the factory floor and raising my son.

Incidently, the 'now we have fertility clinics and cloning so we don't need men' argument works the other way around.

This whole topic is some sort of Nazi geneticist's wet dream anyway.

[spacelady]

132. What makes you think men would win?

[krispos42]

135. I never said we would

I stated what we would have to do to secure our survival. First step, win a shooting gendercidal war. If we don't do that, there is no step two! :-)

At least not for us. YOU'D be busy building the sperm-extraction machinery and milking us four or five times a day with some sort of combination Swedish penis enlarger pump/electric prostate tickler.

Ouch!

Ah, hell, some idiot man would press The Button anyway, and we'd both lose! :nuke:

[Evoman]

32. I'm just a caveman...ladies and gentleman of the DU court.

I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when someone puts a greasy burger in front of me, I eat it.

[pokerfan]

36. Fuck off and die?

Wow.

[Deep13]

49. I decline to comply.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

87. Me to, except for the very first word. That, I intend to keep on doing. -nt

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

106. I'm gonna have to second this.

+1 good sir.

[EstimatedProphet]

43. Give me a f*cking break already!

YOU are the one who is posting hostile opinions, not men.

YOU say Ladies, we should have left them in the caves. They are only good for lifting heavy stuff. We have hyrdaulics and motor controls for that now. Cloning does away for any further need of them too. Get ready to go extinct men. Mother Nature has found a way to protect herself from you. You are no longer needed. and then hide behind saying that it isn't all men you're talking about, when it clearly is. What part of "Get ready to go extinct men" is supposed to be interpreted as only a few men?

I'm really sorry that someone has told you women aren't worth as much as men. I don't believe that and never did. But - get this - I DIDN'T DO IT. I will not be held responsible for the statements of a freeper just because he's male, any more than you should be held responsible for the statements of Ann Coulter just because she's female.

So, I guess I don't like what you have to say after all, since it clearly is directed at all men, even though you claim it isn't. Guess I'll just have to fuck off and die. That seems to be the only choice I'm allowed by you.

[Deep13]

48. We are cavemen and cavewomen,...

...we just have nicer homes and clothes now. All our instincts and most of our thinking is left over from those times. Instead of self-loathing, we should accept who we are and figure out the best way to live with that reality.

Since you choose to frame it as a gender issue, what are you going to do when the hydraulic motors stop working? Fix it yourself? Ha!

[Blue-Jay]

50. You're not planning on cloning yourself, are you?

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

111. .......

+1
(I've been giving out alot of those today)

[rockymountaindem]

52. And if a man around here posted

"women are all bitches" (which I never would, because I like women) that post would get deleted within 15 minutes. Yet this one gets to stay. Nice.

Well, I'm off to get my hair cut at the barber shop, where me and Joe can talk about manly ways to fight back against the matriarchy, because, you know... that's all we do :sarcasm:

[SmileyBoy]

110. BINGO!!!!

If I posted some mysoginistic crap like that on this board, it's gone in minutes. But I guess this piece of misandrystic crap gets to stay up...:puke:

[rockymountaindem]

112. And it's still here all these hours later

Sheesh.

[VelmaD]

113. I call bullshit

I know for a gold-plated fact that plenty of misogynistic bullshit never gets deleted off this site.

[Taverner]

116. Yeah that thread should have been axed

Has anyone alerted on it yet?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. Well...

I'm a man who does eat giant hamburgers, but who is also for equal rights for all.

Oh, and I don't lift stuff, either.

:shrug:

[skygazer]

66. I wonder where I fit in

I'm a woman who likes to eat giant hamburgers and does lift stuff. And who is for equal rights but who likes men and has no desire to keep one in a cave.

I'm confused.....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

76. You sound great to me!

:D

[Left Is Write]

117. That's okay, kiddo. I'll do the heavy lifting for you.

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

121. Oh, I can do it...

I'm just lazy as hell.

Now get moving on that couch. :P

[Left Is Write]

122. The couch? Are you kidding? I was doing bicep curls with it earlier.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

123. Well, now...

How about the fridge? :rofl:

[Left Is Write]

124. Hmmm....I guess I'd better warm up for that one.

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

125. Yeah, I need to work out, too.

Let me rephrase -- I need to START working out. :D

[Left Is Write]

126. LOL!

You might want to work up to the fridge, though. ;)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

128. I'll start with my midget-sized TV.

:D

[Left Is Write]

129. Be sure to eat a Whopper before and after every workout.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

130. Whoppers are for infants.

I eat the 1-pounders like candy. :D

[Bill McBlueState]

57. it doesn't show that at all

It's a commercial, not a documentary. That Burger King claims its burgers are "man food" has no bearing on whether they are. In case you haven't noticed, tv commmercials always distort, exaggerate, or outright fabricate the truth.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

83. Thanks for illustrating the concept of "self-realizing prophecy." EDIT: I don't mean the cloning.

I mean the outcome of your future interactions with carbon-based lifeforms of the Homo Sapiens variety possessing Y chromosomes.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

104. Always nice to know that there are people out there who hate others unconditionally.

Way to try to be a feminist while ending up looking like a hate monger :thumbsup:
EDIT* Forgot to add: +1

[SmileyBoy]

109. As much as I despise Rush Limbaugh, he made a point about certain types of "feminists"

Not the good kind, of which I personally am, of "TRUE feminist", in which we strive to make women equal to men in society. I am personally an advocate of that cause. I'm talking about misandry. The "feminazis". The kind of woman who thinks men are inferior, and wishes we were extinct.

[SmileyBoy]

105. You're exemplifying the kind of behaviour that you're railing against.

I wouldn't want to be a member of either gender with this kind of attitude towards the other. Whether I was a man or a woman. Listen to what you just said, and realize that you're doing the exact same thing you claim to condemn.

[Taverner]

115. Wow - Misandry in its purest!

Got news for you - everyone's an individual and makes their own decisions.

[ThomCat]

149. Not misandry at all.

IMHO: Just a weary anger at machismo and masculine exaggeration. :shug:

[Pushed To The Left]

131. What would the Geico cavemen say about being compared to the Whopper commercial?

You saw how offended they were by the advertisement in the airport....

[ironflange]

7. Those ads are idiotic

No wonder the health care system is so overburdened.

[crim son]

8. You're "manly" because you're doing what you want,

defying good sense and the wishes of your loved ones, by eating yourself into a heart attack Just Because You Can! :puke:

[NMMNG]

9. They're stupid

Much like the ads for the "Hungry Man" TV dinners they imply that the way to be a "Real Man" is to stuff yourself silly with unhealthy, fatty, overprocessed junk food. :eyes:

[Danger Mouse]

15. Like the classic "Hungry Man" commercial where...

these guys are sandbagging during a flood or hurricane or something...and this one guy says 'what'd you have for dinner' and this really big, manly-looking fellow bellows about how he had a hungry man dinner (WITH A POUND OF FOOD!!@@#$@!)
and then this smaller, less-manly looking fellow meekly states that he had some salmon, and is instantly carried off by a great gust of wind.
Moral: Eat hungry man dinners...OR FUCKING DIE.

[NMMNG]

29. Yep

And the one where they guy, who is built pretty well, says he had a chicken breast and baby carrots for dinner then gets blown away with a hair dryer. ("Eat Hungry Man or you're a wuss") :eyes:

[Jamastiene]

23. Or that doing something incredibly stupid is a manly thing

to do. Famous last words, "Here, hold my beer." or "Hey, y'all, watch this." :rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

33. Buffy, baby!

How nice to see you! How you doin'? :loveya:

[NMMNG]

40. Likewise

:pals:

I'm fine and very busy.

[Evoman]

35. Real men have a resting heart rate of 154.

[NMMNG]

41. LOL

And solid arteries. :rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. It means you've got a cast-iron digestive system...

...like a real man! :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

11. The key to a nice, manly *cough cough* is clear arteries.

Just sayin'.

[BlueStorm]

12. The whole thing is stupid....

It just reminds me of the whole premise of "The Man Show." A bunch of men holding and eating burgers with sexy girls around them and WTF is up with pushing the van over the bridge suppose to mean?

I think if that were my vehicle and a whole bunch of people did that I would be pissed, fiction or not.

Blue

[Jamastiene]

24. I hated that show.

Men should have been outraged at that show too, because it made them look incredibly senseless and immature. I imagine a few were, but where were the protests. They missed an opportunity there.

[Danger Mouse]

27. I was much younger when it first came on the air...and kind fo dumb...

well, really dumb...I was still a teen (I think)...it's so hard to remember sometimes, lol
even then it struck me as...off.
in retrospect, i wonder why i ever watched it all...it basically celebrated gluttony, greed, stupidity, objectification of women, drunkenness, cruelty...
it was garbage.

[EstimatedProphet]

101. The Man Show was a parody of women's shows

That's it.

[Danger Mouse]

26. They are coming for us...

[Jamastiene]

148. That Burger King guy makes Freddy Krueger look lovable.

The mask, the frozen look of it, gives me the creeps, badly. I remember the first commercial I saw with that one. He popped up in the back seat of a car while I family was riding down the road. I would have probably shit myself and wrecked. Haven't been able to deal with him since then. Too creepy.

[LSdemocrat]

28. I thought it was funny and stupid

Just because something is wrong (to a relatively harmless degree), doesn't mean it can't be funny.

[krispos42]

31. Topically funny, easily forgettable

It will probably show up in a TV-commercial retrospective in a decade or two.

[Evoman]

34. Stupid commercials. Although I like to go out and have a burger every now and then, "those" kinds of

men would pound me with their clubs if they found out that I love to cook delicate meals at home. Meals that use wines and have french names.

I wonder why anyone would advertise for only half the population. Its a stupid ad, and the people who made it don't understand the market for fast food (both men and women).

[Guaranteed]

37. "I will eat this meat" "I am incorrigible" ---- real lines from the song

I think there is a subconscious homosexual tenor to it, as there usually is in just about anything trying to prove how "manly" it is.

[peekaloo]

45. thank you.

just like The King showing up in bed with a man offering him meat packed between buns.

[Dervill Crow]

38. Incredibly stupid.

I like Whoppers, dammit, and I'm not a man.

It does make me embarrassed and ashamed that I like crap food. We've gotten very lazy about cooking lately and really should be eating smarter.

All Burger King commercials seem to be revolting on some level.

[SeattleGirl]

39. I don't like any of the Burger King commercials.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[City Lights]

42. Absolutely hate it!

My daughter wrote a letter of complaint to BK over it. BK needs a new advertising company. I am also creeped out by the king.

[CactusJock]

74. I am also creeped out by the king - he looks like some leering sex offender...

and cheap too. why blow zillions of bucks on all those tv spots but then base the campaign around a character that looks you nipped out to a costume rental shop just before the first shoot?

[Arugula Latte]

100. I read somewhere that that mascot was a 70s creation they dusted off.

I think it's supposed to be weirdly retro, but I don't know the particulars of the marketing/demographic research they did before launching that campaign.

[youthere]

44. I thought it was funny.

Not a rolling-on-the-floor-pissing-myself kind of funny...but worth a chuckle. It isn't any worse than the commercials with the optional "Male" and "female" endings..I forget who does them. The "woman's" commercial ends with a musical about shoes.

[Deep13]

46. A little embarrassing.

Any ad that claims that Americans somehow don't get enought to eat and that shitty fast food is the solution is disingenuous at best. Still, I understand the reaction to what some see as the increasing feminization of Western culture. Now, I would not label it in terms of gender, but I do see a trend where feelings and avoiding offense have become more important than objective fact.

[swimboy]

47. I'll tell you how stupid I thought it was . . .

. . . I thought it was a Hardee's commercial.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

51. It is satire and you don't get it. (nt)

[Midlodemocrat]

53. I don't think I've ever seen one.

Here, we mute commercials because my husband started doing that and we all sort of got in the habit mainly because they are so much louder than the regular programming and so inane.

I'll have to keep my eyes out for one.

[Phillycat]

55. It's really gay.

That was the first thing I thought, anyway. Homoerotic.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

60. Errr...

[bicentennial_baby]

65. isn't that sweet...

:puke:

[Phillycat]

68. Homoeroticism is bad?

Not to me. I watch Smallvile for the homoeroticism alone.

[bicentennial_baby]

70. No, it was your whole

'it's really gay' phrase...

[Phillycat]

72. I meant "gay" as in "GAY".

Not gay as in stupid. I don't use that word in that way.

[NMMNG]

92. Wow

Gay as an insult in and of itself instead of "gay = stupid" as an insult. I'm sure the GLBT DUers feel so much better now. :sarcasm:

[Phillycat]

95. NEITHER of them are insults!

What the hell are you talking about? I said the commercial was homoerotic. I did NOT say it was bad. I said it because I doubt the commercial's intention was to be homoerotic, and yet it was.

You are looking for a fight where there is none. DAMN.

[Pushed To The Left]

134. Did you just say "DAMN"?

Here you go....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8hX1g1hUek

[sniffa]

97. hey, what do you expect?

that's her steeze. :shrug:

[Bassic]

138. Ok, I must have missed that part of Smallville.

That or I'm just clueless, which is entirely possible. :)

So, where's the homoeroticism in Smallville?

[Phillycat]

142. Clark and Lex, especially the first 3 seasons.

They couldn't make it through a scene without eyef**ing one another. Long lingering stares, touches that last just a BIT longer than you might expect....MMMMMMMM. It was awesome! Now that they made Lex totally evil, though, it's not nearly as good.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

143. In her head, which is exactly where it is in the Burger King commercial.

[Orsino]

56. Probably unintentional satire.

It's a commercial, so it is trying to capitalize on our various drives, even if there is a nod and a wink.

[jpgray]

58. I think they're meant to be ridiculously chauvinistic

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

59. Uh, chauvanism is the whole point.

I mean for crying out loud. They flip an SUV off of a freeway into a dump truck being pulled by a circus freak who's being tempted by a burger being carried by a girl in a bikini.

Of course it's satire. Do they need to have a warning label for satire now?

[jpgray]

61. If DU has taught us anything (GD in particular)

It's that some people take -everything- seriously.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

73. It always reminds me of the "Happy Feet" thread.

[enigmatic]

77. The Happy Feet thread?

I must have missed that one; what was that about?

[bicentennial_baby]

78. How Happy Feet is a racist film

and that penguins are really scary, iirc :D

[enigmatic]

79. Ohhhhhhhh

NOW I remember that! Hoo boy...

[bicentennial_baby]

80. it was pretty awesome

if by awesome, you also mean 'insane' :bounce:

[enigmatic]

81. We need a DU Insane Flame-war Thread Book

Seriously, I'd buy a couple of copies; some of the funniest stuff I've ever read...

[bicentennial_baby]

82. I absolutely agree!

Every time I think we've hit the limits of what people can actually get incensed and argue over, they amaze me yet again! :D

[Hosnon]

84. Oooooh...I'd definitely buy one! nt.

[ronnykmarshall]

91. When ever I see a comercial for that movie ...

I think of that thread.

Just for fun, I start screaming at the TV and start a "sit in" in my own living room.

Thank god my SO knows I'm fucking off my rocker.

[bicentennial_baby]

98. You crack me up!

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

133. I'm going to take your post very seriously.

:crazy:

[Hosnon]

62. Thank you. This thread is *gasp* pointing out exactly what the commercial

intends to satirize.

[crispini]

63. Exactly.

And I think they're pretty effing funny, myself.

[enigmatic]

69. Yes

Sadly.

[Guaranteed]

99. I don't think it was supposed to be satire. I think it was supposed to be

*funny*- but not satirical. I don't think it intended to make fun of itself. It was only supposed to be silly.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

103. It's not particularly vicious satire.

But it's making fun of commercials that target male insecurity.

[Deja Q]

71. It'll make a person a farting fat man...

The commercial is illogical, never mind inaccurate.

[BluePatriot]

75. I am man....and can clog my arteries....

Yeah, they are pretty stupid, but my hubby thinks they are funny, so maybe they do have some kind of base guy appeal.

[leftofthedial]

85. it beats

I am woman let me stand
At a urinal with a man . . .

[unpossibles]

88. I don't like a single thing about them

not only are they offensive to men and women (and non-meat eaters), but they are not even good. I don't like advertising that needs to bully you into buying something to prove your man- or womanhood.

[Lerkfish]

89. I'm not watching enough tv cause I missed those. I HAVE seen the creepy

guy with a burger king mask in bed with or otherwise annoying/harrassing people. I find those especially heinous.

what happens in the commercial, exactly? I'll try to keep an eye out for it.

[ronnykmarshall]

90. I hate that damn creepy king thing.

:scared:

I haven't seen the ones you're talking about. But I hate the Carl's Jr ones.

[Crabby Appleton]

93. me too, I haven't seen (or noticed anyway)

the ones being discussed, but the ones with the kings head mask creep me out.

[BlueStorm]

94. Oh yeah, the King thing is very creepy...

I hated the commercial where the guy opens his drape to find the king standing there with a crossiant sandwich or something.

Blue

[WindRavenX]

102. my boyfriend HATES that ad

And he usually doesn't like upscale food, but he said the same thing I said: "stupid, sexist, and boorish".

[SmileyBoy]

107. It's a catchy song (Helen Reddy would spin in her grave, tho)...

But the burger itself is nasty. I tried one one day. It SUCKS.

Anyway, I've limited my fast food to Arby's, Quizno's and Subway recently.

[Left Is Write]

150. But....Helen's Reddy's not dead!

[chknltl]

108. The burger king guy creeps me out...ever since the first ad!

Its that oversized head thing. Guys with oversized heads tend to creep me out. Girls with oversized heads do too. 'Nuff said!

[Patsy Stone]

114. Forget the individual ads.

The new Burger King in toto is freaky scary.

[Dinger]

119. They're Disgusting - I think even June Cleaver would have been pissed! (nt)

[Dinger]

120. They Should Have A Rebuttal Commerical

Maybe, like, uhhhhh, maybe . . . . Oh, I don't know . . . . . The SO kicks his ass, maybe???

[Pushed To The Left]

127. I think it's hilarious. I believe the "I am Man" song is a parody

of the "I am Woman" song from years ago. The men in the commercial are fighting for their rights to eat Whoppers! It's a fun commercial and is not meant to be taken seriously.

[Okiojira]

136. Yes.

Yet another example of the corporate/advertising world bending over a chair and spreading the collective cheeks of the populace to deliver more of their *ahem* "services".

As a man, I am put off by the vast majority of "male-geared" advertising. It's just such totally shameless pandering to the lowest common denominator. In addition to the beer/burger/toiletry commercials aimed at the male-pig demographic, there's the bilious slew of imbecilic men's magazines like FHM, Stuff, etc.

Speaking of lame "guy" commercials, you ever seen the one for the 'Lectric Shave aftershave swill? I LOVE that one!!!:sarcasm:
Christ, the first time I ever saw it, I thought it was a put-on: scantily-clad, busty babe crawling all over her man, who's freshly doused himself in that eau de urinal cake known as aftershave? No irony whatsover; "Fellas, if you use 'Lectric Shave, the babes will come a-flockin'!"

And don't even get me going on those goddamn Axxxxxxxe deodorant commercials.

Jeez, I kinda don't blame Jamastiene for getting pissy about men if this kind of thing is the dominant male stereotype (archetype, even?)...

[Bassic]

137. As a man who usually enjoys a lot of things that

are traditionnally associated to men, and as a guy who very much enjoys eating meat, I truly despise that commercial.

[unpossibles]

139. yeah, it's honestly not even good satire.

I have a very dark sense of humor and have seen some truly dark yet funny things (including things that have happen to me directly) and I can and do laugh at myself, but.... good satire should be funny.

The Office = Funny
all of the bad "look, I'm not a commercial; I'm some indie viral film" commercials = not very funny for the most part.

[izzybeans]

140. Very annoying commercial. But that is their market demographic...

It's not like Howard Zinn is their spokesperson.

The Miller Lite "man law" commercials are ridiculously chauvinistic as well. I can't order a Belgium beer now and say "please hold the fruit" without some idiot saying "is it because of the man law thing?" "What is that? I suppose I don't want my unfiltered Ale to taste like American lager."

I don't drink miller lite either so I must not fall into the Terry Bradshaw demograhic. I don't think its satire. I think it represents who the marketing agency believes will buy the product. It's a stereotype some ad. writer created from market trends. But I must be a caveman as per upthread. "Caveman love Saison Ale's. Caveman eat Organic. Caveman cook for family." :belch: :fart: :scratches ass: :look around at all the whopper wrappers surrounding the cave:

[noonwitch]

141. It beats the creepy, stalker Burger King in the plastic mask!

He is so weird looking.

[pitohui]

151. it's aimed at stupid people who like to overstuff themselves

if by "chick food" they mean the best and most expensive of ingredients prepared by the most experienced and knowledgeable of chefs who also have a sense of style and know how to decorate a plate instead of feeding you like a hog at a trough -- fuck yeah, give me chick food every time, and my hub would say the same