Comments on: Men are Needy Babies

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:04:42 +0000

Will – I like your idea for an ad: if portraying men as babies and idiots enforces the patriarchy, would depicting them as jewelry-dispensing patriarchs be subversive?

By: Dangger

Dangger — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:44:48 +0000

Tacos are not folded like that, trust me, taco bell is not the mexican paradigm for taco folding.

By: Sharon G.

Sharon G. — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:16:20 +0000

Even the food shown in this commercial is troubling. Pita bread is not supposed to be folded like a taco, but rather – should either be wrapped around the food (gyro-style), or have a little pocket in it, so that the food is placed INSIDE the pita, instead of being “served ON” the pita.

To me, as someone who lives in the Middle East, this is a sad example of how “ethnic” food is being re-appropriated and (badly) Americanized, in a manner that is almost offensive in its disrespect to these traditional foods.

By: Dangger

Dangger — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:59:19 +0000

I am undertaking a research on economic violence on women and conducting several interviews. I have found the same principle but reversed, namely the conception of women as needy or unable to take proper care of themselves, produces and reproduces patriarchy and gender discrimination. Not one of these interviews, literarily, have passed unobserved by a male from the family, some sort of vigilance over the capabilities of women.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:45:02 +0000

I’m glad we don’t have these restaurants in my region, because this ad is both creepy and irritating.

What would be the repercussions if an ad showed a grown woman throwing a fit and an adult man calming her down with food? (Then again, I could almost see someone making a jewelry commercial along those lines)