Commercial Stupidity

I'm getting pretty amazed by a lot of the commercials on television right now - in a horrible, people are getting dumber by the second way. Let's start with that diet delivery one.

Here are some overweight people complaining that there are no diet delivery programs that have good food. Get the hell up off your fat ass and walk to the supermarket and make something healthy yourself! Seriously. Sitting around the house waiting for the mailman to deliver your food isn't doing anything to help you shed the pounds. Proper diet and exercise is the only way to do it and no one else can make someone thin.

Then there's the jam sandwich. Here, the mother makes jam sandwiches for her daughter because making sandwiches from deli ham is no good since the ham has too many preservatives. But all that sugar is better? I don't get as frustrated watching this one as I do others but come on, advertisers really need to stop thinking the majority of the population have IQ's under a hundred.

Don't even get me started on the new trailers for that vampire movie. As a writer, I like seeing strong female characters and am disappointed when books, television shows and movies dumb their character down just to move the plot along. Here is a girl who needs to be saved, constantly, repeatedly, on a daily basis. She has two boys fighting over her, deciding that she has no say whatsoever and her protests seem mostly for show. I understand the writer of these books has a strong sense of her own faith and it is clear from just reading the first book but girls are allowed to use their brains. They can choose what they wear, who they're friends with, what they want to do with their life and it's not always about physical strength.

Magazines, models and mannequins give off a skewed sense of what people should look like. Young girls see these and think that's what they need to strive for. How about instead of telling girls that you have to have a man in your life to take care of you, that you can do what you want and any man that wants to be in your life should be confident enough to be a partner and not a boss.

One more thing. What the hell is up with that new diaper commercial? The one that looks like denim? WTF? That's just wrong.

Glad to have gotten that out of my system.