{"id":1537,"date":"2009-03-06T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T05:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2009-03-06T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T05:18:37","slug":"the-man-files-beer-burgers-military-beer-burgers-televisions-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/03\/06\/the-man-files-beer-burgers-military-beer-burgers-televisions-military\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Files: Beer, Burgers, Military. Beer, Burgers, Televisions, Military \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guest post to The Man Files comes at us from Jonathan Felix \u00e2\u20ac\u201d college student, drummer, sports fan, and astute social critic. In Jonathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Me and my dad sarcastically laugh at the sequence of commercials during \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcguy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 shows on TV: beer, burgers, military. Beer, cars, televisions, military \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here Jonathan takes on Carl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jr. ads asking why they portray guys as kind of stupid.<\/em><\/p>\n

Masculine, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In true corporate marketing fashion, Carl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jr. depicts demoralizing stereotypes of men and women in efforts to attract consumers.<\/p>\n

The fast-food chain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current commercial shows a beautiful skinny blonde girl wearing make-up and a nice blue dress. She enters her boyfriend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apartment expecting a classy night out, and finds him on the couch playing video games. The couple talks about a steak dinner, and the guy implies they are going to Carl’s Jr. for their new steak sandwich. The motto after the commercial is that Carl’s Jr. is “How guys do fancy.”<\/p>\n

This is NOT how I do fancy.<\/p>\n

Commercials like this give good guys a bad reputation. Hey Carl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jr. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Listen up! A lot of us actually have our lives together and enjoy taking women out to nice places and good dinners.<\/p>\n

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Or what about the ad with the guy and the avocado? It makes men look like total barbaric meatheads, who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even use a spoon to eat an avocado, and we somehow need Carl’s Jr. to make guacamole for us because we’re too stupid to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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Now I happen to like Carl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jr. But for them to portray guys as that lazy and ignorant is offensive. I can only hope my peers would agree that we have to do better than a #4 Combo if we plan on making good boyfriends and future husbands.<\/p>\n

These commercials project a message to the world that men are lame and losers and unable to appreciate even the smallest bit of romantic effort. Far too often our society depicts \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real\u00e2\u20ac\u009d men as barbarians who love sports and beer and total sexual dominance. And although plenty of men have some of these traits, pop culture insists on exploiting our more obtuse characteristics to sell their products.<\/p>\n

These ads completely ignore a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intellectual or emotional capabilities. This hurts men who actually have their lives somewhat together. It perpetuates negative stereotypes and affects women’s future opinions about men, be they Prince Charmings or Ronald McDonalds.<\/p>\n

Show Jonathan some love and welcome him to Girl With Pen by posting your comments here. Or reach him directly at johnnylbeach at yahoo.com<\/em>. Until next month! -Shira<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guest post to The Man Files comes at us from Jonathan Felix \u00e2\u20ac\u201d college student, drummer, sports fan, and astute social critic. In Jonathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Me and my dad sarcastically laugh at the sequence of commercials during \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcguy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 shows on TV: beer, burgers, military. Beer, cars, televisions, military \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here Jonathan takes on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21117],"tags":[750,21195,21235,387,1976,129,876,5007,108,21865],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-man-files-2","tag-advertising","tag-blogging-life","tag-carls-jr","tag-dating","tag-masculinity","tag-media","tag-men","tag-pop-culture","tag-sports","tag-the-man-files"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}