Raising Cain
Pirate-King has an interesting post about the cliches of TVLand. The one about girls being smarter than boys reminds me of a commercial the Kid & I saw last night on CartoonNetwork.
We were in the midst of Static Shock - a rather politically correct yet watchable show whose main character is a dread-locked high school black kid cum superhero. A commercial for Connect4 appeared - the game where you have to drop plastic coins to form four in a row. In it a 9-ish year old girl is playing a similarly aged boy. She then proceeds to kick his ass in this game, leaving him whining and frustrated - in a happy sort of way that you’ll never see in real life.
“You know, girls aren’t smarter than boys,” I said to The Kid.
“Girls are stupid,” the Kid replied.
“No, they’re just as smart as you are,” I said.
“They aren’t smarter than me?” the Kid asked.
“Some girls are, and some girls aren’t - just like with boys.”
Not that this matters. The commercial failed to make either me or the kid want to buy Connect4 - it’s sole purpose for appearing before us. The Kid’s got other things like video games and special train engines and cars on his “wish list".
Parents 1 - Pop Culture 0.
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We long ago made a decision that any product sold via bad advertising would not make our money.
95% of Pepsi’s advertising is an attempt to put down Coke products. Coke (to my knowledge) has never had an ad campaign that put down its competitors. Therefore Coke gets my money.
Comment by chad — 1/1/2005 @ 2:49 pm