Things sure have changed over the years. Snowflakes and feminists beware.

Seriously, the only reason I don't love baseball is because I don't like it.

 

I still like "fascist" for the right. Apt and appropriate term, don't you know.

 

LOL

 

Yep.

 

I found the comments around the adverts amusing. The statist beliefs of the page's author are in full bloom with the comments about "banning" these advertisements. "Banning" assumes action by the government. They were never banned. They were found to no longer be effective at the intended audience. The government has no place in determining how I should be tempted in making a purchase of legal product.

The ads were a product of their time, directed at an audience the companies thought would be receptive. Apparently some were and some weren't, as some of the products I've never heard of and some are still around (MG notwithstanding, of course, as it was a crap automobile and the company would have folded even without the weak ad-campaign mentioned in the page." They were never banned as so regularly proclaimed by the web author. Oh, guess in sense, the CEOs and the boards of directors may have 'banned" them, but that is an incorrect use of the word.

In spite of the desires of certain segments of the population, there are still mostly adhered-to gender roles. My wife will still tell you that they best Christmas gift she ever got from me was a kitchen appliance, bought some 30 years ago and that she still uses quite prodigiously. They best she ever gave me was, oh dear, power tools. I guess I should be just as a happy to get a mixer as I would a drill, impact driver, reciprocating saw combo? Now, that does not mean that either gender is lesser or greater because they swim against the tide and have occupation that have in the past been associated with the other. Far from it. My wife chose to stay at home (though not full time, as income was still a bit of an issue) and I chose to work full time. We could have reversed things, but neither of us would have been as happy, but if a man chooses to stay home and raise a child, more power to him, especially so if his offspring are males of the species and need direct and constant civilizing.

Oh, and this thread goes to The Stump.

 

I found it amusing that James Dean, in "Rebel Without A Cause", was extremely upset that his parents weren't following normal gender stereotypes. He was rebeling against non-traditional parents.

 

I don't care about James Dean. My comment was about the article and its author's motivations, not some off the wall BS.

I personally think most of the ads are at best odd and not based on current mores.

 

Swooshed you, didn't I.

 

Whatever, Larry.

 

You forgot the exasperated style, "Larry Wayne!"