I must say that I also found it appalling the way women were used in advertising during the 70's & 80's. I'm glad that has stopped to a large degree.
And then we had the giant billboard shoe ad over the monash fwy featuring a woman holding a leash tied to a collar on a semi naked man on all fours under her feet. To reverse the genders in such a depiction would be unthinkable.
We are not a more enlightened society that has outgrown discrimination. We have merely shifted it according to the power wielded by political interests.
P.S. There is no such thing as "reverse discrimination." Either there is discrimination or there is not.
Is it just me? Or is anyone else growing weary of Advertiser's, Hollywood's, TV & the Media's and even the education system's treatment of us mere males.
Too many adverts portray men as incompetent, dumb or needing a guiding female hand to tie their shoe-laces.
Hollywood dishes up female butt-kicking Amazons (tiny, but often attractive) to whom six foot seven first-rower is nothing but a minor inconvenience.
Community male "authority figures" (eg, bus/train conductors, big burly coppers who'd give you a literal kick up the bum as a kid if you were naughty) have been hunted to extinction.
The cirriculum at our schools has swung so far toward teaching the fairer sex that boys are being left behind.
Touchy-feely is in. Macho behaviour is often illegal, or bubble wraped to such an extent it's not longer fun (just have a look at the Personal Water Craft laws in NSW)
(Dirty) Harry Callahan's are no longer PC.
Yet given the shootings/stabbings/muggings/violence, particularly on Sydney streets I can't help but think more the pity......
There is a term for it... "male bashing". It should be pointed out for what it is, and not accepted lightly or ignored.
Steve Biddulph puts it into perspective well in his book "Manhood".
big Boo Hoo fella's better start watchin' the telly again (outside of sport) and doing the shopping, if want advertising ect. demographics to change
the ads i cant stand are were the 10 yr old (usually male) is smarter than all the adults, and decides which big tonka toy 4wd ozone destroying behemoth the missus is gunna to the shops and pick up the kids with, in the process block my view, and tailgate me, the dickens do you do!
err ..MR Mike ..erm ... that pic is kinda undermining our case
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The first time I lified this stone I nearly passed out after one step
Man how do you walk with this? I mean do your muscle cramp? How do you keep going? Mind over matter? Seriously 170kg must be a severe load on the spine whichever way you look at it. You do core training prior or just loads of heavy lifting?
my father said to me many years ago, the biggest drawback you will ever have in this country is being a white Australian working male. how true this is now, all the do gooders make money of the minorities.
As a kid I watched my parents pitch in equally on all fronts whether that be cleaning our soiled nappies, putting food on the table or blasting a snake with a shotgun to protect us kids.
My mum would then cook the snake. Nothing lost . I guess you get your kids as you raise them. I try to get mine to be open minded and tolerant. Problem is the TV bashing makes our job harder. We live in a world of global communications/marketing and people don't make the difference between TV News and reality these days. Especially true with kids. Lots of expectations just to feel like they "fit in".
I'm thinkin if'n I was born and raised in your family Mark I too would have
had a bit of respect for Maw and Paw, seein' as how they owned em'
a shotgun
I bet there weren't too many soiled nappies neither
Steve
LOL Steve. I think everyone who lived in NW WA at that time had one mate. I still have the image in my mind of the old girl pointing and shooting and the place where the snake had been . I was about 4 at the time .
Touchy-feely is in. Macho behaviour is often illegal, or bubble wraped to such an extent it's not longer fun (just have a look at the Personal Water Craft laws in NSW)
Pete I don't get where most of your rant is coming from, sorry ,been sitting in the surf with the odd jet ski showing up and preceding to trash the entire water around you with chop and not to mention an idiot bouncing a few hundred kilos of boat all around your space . Like in every instance I've seen you could run down the beach a few hundred mtrs without any problems .
Bit like tossers with fast cars who complain bitterly bout speed
limits .. do there best to not get caught out .. .. but when they do its the system thats at fault not the driver.
The problem there Jeanette is that men that are in touch with their feminie side are branded as gay, weird, weak, and not to mention boring and uninteresting by MOST females. The modern female wants exciting, trouble making, "cool" men. But of course, those relationships don't last very long. Serves the modern woman right and I have no pity for them.
We do have men in skirts Mike - they're called Scotsmen (said in what hopefully people on IIS will take as purely humour and nothing more).
Dave
Just don't try to be too cool like this guy in the UK...
One of the benefits of living in Thailand is that political correctness is fairly unknown here. Well, my belief may just come from my not understanding Thai very well...lol
Most if not all the tampax ads where a young dumb a**, sorry male wonders what it's all about? And of course the girl is "the smart one" coz she knows better and points out how stupid a bloke can be.
One of the benefits of living in Thailand is that political correctness is fairly unknown here. Well, my belief may just come from my not understanding Thai very well...lol
Yeah, well, it is the UK. The most spied on country in the world. The most expensive country to live in in the world (probably). And, sadly, it looks like the good 'ole British humour is disappearing
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Humm...Great Wall of China was built to keep the rabbits out?
(funny advert...but I'd bet you'd hear the howls if the gent was cast as a dim woman)
A good indication of the way things are going in relation to this matter is to listen to stand-up comedians, their targets are white hetrosexual working males because nothing else is "safe"!
Without the skirt though 
. I was about 4 at the time 
