Entry #7 - Men In Commercials V.S. Real Life

So there are many portrayals of the way that men supposedly act in the real world in commercials. But is that the way men really act? I have to say no and I'm sure most of you would agree. But what would happen if men acted the way they are shown in commercials in real life?

I was introduced to a website called DumbMen. It is nothing but a database filled with clips of "dumb men" from various commercials. They have quite a collection, sadly.

Take a look at this YouTube clip. Borrowed from DumbMen.com

In this Verizon commercial, the man is violently pounding on the glass that leads to a room full of infants. He states that the child being wheeled over is the best baby out of all of the newborns in the room. Everyone else just watches as the man yells and pounds on the glass. They then go on to say that basically all hockey fans are like this just to try and advertise for alerts relating to a fan's favorite hockey team.


But what happens if you do something like this in real life? Hockey player Steve Sullivan - Now the Coyotes development coach - gets his revenge on a fan who decides to heckle him after being hit in the face due to high sticking by another hockey player in the video below.

As you can see, Sullivan gets his revenge on the fan who decided to push the wrong buttons. This goes to show that people who act like the people portrayed in commercials aren't well liked. Would you heckle a man who was just hit in the face by a hockey stick? I know I wouldn't!

So do you think that men and women are portrayed accurately in commercials? What do you think we should do about this problem of generalizing and stereotyping!

~The Final Spark, Rin