Seems that, whilst whatever is wrong with Blogger, I'm able to get round it. See I had this whole rant about tv commercial's and it was pretty good, but that was like ages ago and I'm not sure I can redo it nearly as well. Crapola. Oh well, here it goes anyway.
So ok who thinks up these tv adverts these days? I mean do they even watch the crap they're putting out there, expecting us to not only believe but that we'll go out and buy these products? I mean ok the one product advert I'm gonna rant on about I've purchased but only 'cos it was on sale, not because of the commercial. The product is mascara. They have either beautiful model's or beautiful actresses selling mascara's today, and we're supposed to believe that her lashes are that long, thick and plentiful because she's using a certain mascara. Well duh, they've also got on false eyelashes and THAT is what makes them look like that. When I bought this certain brand it did totally glop onto my eyelashes, I had to take it off a couple times and reapply to get it look good and I have thick and long lashes, they are just very blonde and nearly invisable without mascara on them. I see no difference in length, fullness or anything different in my eyelashes. None at all. It was waterproof though, 'cos when I saw Spandau Ballet live in Birmingham for the first time in the 25 years I've been a fan (they never toured the US, totally different rant) and I had front row, well the water-works came on and my mascara didn't run! So that was truthful at least.
My other complaint for adverts is how when they are portraying a family setting, the wife is always thin, well put together and young whilst the husband is chubby, balding and usually in sweats. I don't get that, it makes no damned sense to me. Why can't it be a chubby woman in sweats with a fit husband?
Again lets move on to these commercials trying to sell us skin care for us aging women. For dark circles, for wrinkles, for sagging. Ok if you want me to seriously consider buying your product? How about NOT using a model who's all of maybe 25 years old? I mean seriously now! Do they not see what I'm seeing? Practically these women are children and we're supposed to believe they've got dark circles and wrinkles and sagging anything? Please spare me! Use me and my dark circles and put me on your fucking commercial and then we'll see how well your product works 'cos I've used a few and let me tell you, whilst they've all worked a little bit, they did not work very well or enough for me to purchase that product a second time.
Another thing that bugs me is the food commercial's. It's ok for the man to have a big, honkin' steak, potatoes and a beer but then you see the woman is having a small salad. WTF! Why can't she have the steak? That tells me women need to be skinny, hungry, have fake assed eyelashes and look ever youthful. Impossible.
Then we have magazines...who are notorious for airbrushing photographs. Making skinny model's look down right ridiculous as their heads, which are already too big for their skinny bodies, even more grotesque and out of sorts. We're led to believe that women are seriously supposed to look like a Barbie doll in order to be considered attractive. Then we see a show about how teen and preteen girls and boys are becoming more and more anorexic and we shake our heads and wonder why and what we can do to stop this trend. I have a 12 year old son who thinks he's fat 'cos he no longer can fit in slim jeans...because he sees skinny boys his age who aren't even near puberty on tv so much that he doesn't realise that he, who is in full swing puberty, is filling out and becoming a man. I try to keep that sort of crap away from him, and I think how much more difficult it must be for parents of girls, but it's nearly impossible. He's not the sort of kid who follows fads to be honest, but he sees that these kids are shaped different and he doesn't know why he doesn't look like that and because he doesn't he is then fat and no good. Why do we think that fat equals no good? Is it because we think fat people are lazy? That if they just got off their fat asses they'd be thin? Does anyone stop to think beyond that though? Fat is the last taboo, it's the last thing that's ok to make fun of openly, fat people are to be laughed at and ridiculed 'cos lets face it, us fat people don't have feelings nor a reason to exist. @@ When is it going to stop being ok to humiliate people who are over-weight? When will "fat" be in the same catagory as other things that we no longer say out of respect?
Basically, as always, we just have to be intelligent when we watch tv and see these adverts, but then it's not always easy is it. I mean if I go out and get that mascara tomorrow....maybe I won't look so fat and some guy will fall in love with me and I'll look younger than I am if I rub some of that lotion on my face...maybe....
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