5 Bizarrely Specific Sexist Stereotypes in Modern Ads - The Spit Take 

"What" "Is it a pop tart?" I don't know why I find it so funny

The main difference between Married With Children and those other "dumb dad" shows is that no one on that show had a brain cell to share between them. The dog was the only intelligent character on the show.

It's pretty clear that advertisers think all humans are stupid and pathetic if in bizarrely spcific ways.

Is it a pop tart? - BEST LINE EVER!!

90% sure the joke with the clumsy guy saying he got the job was intended as "he's clumsy, he destroys everything" because he got a job in demolition, which they say.

You guys do watch these videos, right? You're just not copying and pasting your comments from other videos?

Those women in the Dove True Beauty ads must be actresses right? I mean no woman is dumb enough to buy that a patch on her arm can give her confidence.

I'd rather go "Antiquing" than watch a Bears game.

Usually the boss isn't working the counter. their in their office doing other boss stuff.

I can sense the fedoras coming.

Has anyone here brought up the idea that these commercials are the very reason people don't like ads and block/avoid them whenever possible? Put all the agendas and poorly-thought-out-defensive-arguments aside for once because all that stuff is ultimately just a never-ending circle of distraction. A few ads are genuinely funny the first time you see them, (if you're not trying to come up with content for a Cracked video) and so you might chuckle, or ever-so-slightly grin for a moment. But I'm pretty sure no commercial has any actual likeness to reality. Consider the people who come up with them--really think about it. They're not actually busy trying to push an agenda, at the very least not consciously, because their main focus is getting your money. They're trying to find some way to get people to nod along with the commercial and at least subconsciously think "yes, I should buy/do this thing because it aligns with things I like or believe". These are people who are desperate to advance in their given field, but also pretty arrogant because they give their audience zero credit. They are the ultimate of cynics (right behind insurance folks and anyone working in the judicial system) and hold everyone in contempt. Every single commercial and advertisement is insulting in some way. The good ones hide it well. But they are targeted toward morons, because for advertisers everyone else in the world is an idiot to be manipulated.

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one who noticed lol The google thing is quite amazing, though. I signed up for a website that I needed for college while using google chrome, and when I checked the 'female' box while making my profile, google took note of it. After that I've gotten more ads for shoes, dresses, kitchen utensils, and house cleaning products than usual. I'm not mad, I just find it funny.

#2 is actually just a placebo affect

"Omg I'm so manly, I'll drink a Bud Light to underline my masculinity" - said no one ever.

men and boys spend a lot of time shopping and primping. the boys at my kids elementary school go all out with the bright socks and shoes and hats. stuff looks expensive, too.

I hate how in movies or ads that if a woman hits a man, she's defending herself. But if a man hits a woman, ooh boy, he is automatically the villain.

Whenever I walk into a cafe, I also assume whoever is at the counter is the boss.

I died at "is it a pop tart?" Lmao

The part with the cars/ bad drivers was the best: "What, is that parking gate made of sword?" XD ... I'm still laughing.

what i especially like about that whole Dove thing... Dove is owned by the same company (Unilever) Axe is... so yeah the same company which wants woman to be proud of their not super model bodies... made the Axe effect commercials in which *thousands* of woman with super model bodies, in bikinis no less run frantically to one guy on some beach...

"Is it a pop-tart?" I just cracked :D

Did anyone check that last "men can't drive" ad. At the end it said, "Why we insure women only." Isn't that kind of sexist? I mean, for an insurance company, not covering someone over something like gender or sex is kind of discriminatory, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen any insurance company going, "We don't insure women because they're emotional train wrecks who are more concern about their looks than the safety of others."

man, youtube comment sections are scary, scary places I wonder what it says about our current society that people insist on arguing about every single thing? I choose to think of it, honestly, as a sign that individual autonomy is growing - people are finding it easier and easier to espouse and express their own personal views - although an argument could be made (and probably will be) for a widespread de-maturization (not a word but I'm using it anyway) of today's internet-using population. Either way, I'll just sit on the sidelines watching and then run away when I get too frustrated. Ah, how I love the pure, unadulterated freedom of the internet~

How would the delivery guy know she's the boss anyway? She's not wearing any indication and is standing behind the register liek...

I love how much effort they put into the end card video just trying to make it sound awkward and scripted as possible; so good.

There's no reason for the delivery man *to* expect that she's the boss. There's no reason for him to assume the first person he talks to is the boss. Do you think he should say, "are you the boss?". He didn't even insinuate that she isn't the boss, as he just said, "I need the boss's signature."

6:05 I NEVER understood the "shock" thing in that ad. You know the reason someone might ask the CASHIER where the boss is? Cause like 90% of those bosses are in a back room at a computer. I have vendors come up to me all the time and ask if I can phone a boss to sign for a package and I've had some vendors come up to my boss while he was walking around the store and ask him to phone a boss to sign for a package. Its not an uncommon question.

The problem with this kind of analysis, is that it comes from educated young people that have moved away from this stereotypical lifestyle and hangs out with other like-minded young people, and don't realize that unfortunately those ads do really represent what the VAS MAJORITY of consumers actually live like. From the pathetic and dumb football loving bros that hate their wives, to the one diminutional women that buy shoes and nail polish online, people really live like that. the majority of people. The ads are not wrong, you just moved away from their target audience. Be proud. Don't hate the ad, hate the consumers they are made for.

Like, the UPS guy just assumed the manager wouldn’t be working the counter. She also wasn’t wearing a name tag saying she was a manager, and she wasn’t wearing nicer clothes than the average worker, like most managers do

I got from Undertale is on crack to Cracked talking about stereotypes.

Ok, normally I only get a chuckle from these videos. But that poptart line actually got me good lol.

Is it a pop tart?!😱 😂😂😂

You know what the shitty part about being a white male is? That no matter how shitty your life is or how low you are on the totem pole, people treat you like you've got some wonderful perfect life full of advantages. Like the white guy working near minimum wage flipping burgers has some great leg up on the woman who's a Senior Director of Marketing or some crap because he's the white guy and she's the woman. Because so many OTHER white guys who aren't him and don't know him from Adam have so much power and wealth. I think next time I'm at the supermarket and see one of the homeless white guys with a sign on a piece of cardboard saying "HOMELESS POOR PLEASE HELP", I'll just say "Hey buddy, it aint so bad. You've got white male privilege. At least you're not black or a woman or anything that unfortunate.

Well to be fair to the UPS guy the boss usually doesn't sit behind the front counter.

"is it a pop tart?" 😂😂

A lot of this "sexism" isn't even sexism... Guy too dumb to do simple chores? Sexism. Women hating football/beer? Sexism. Women planning weddings on a tablet? Not sexism. That's just something a bride-to-be does. They plan weddings. Woman owning a business? Definitely not sexism. The delivery man not thinking she couldn't be the boss? The character *could* be being sexist or he could just be asking a normal question, but the advertisement is certainly not sexist. All those car crash commercials? I don't see what that has to do with sexism at all. Stereotypically, women are bad drivers. If they showed a woman that couldn't parallel park and then followed up with a man doing it for her then that would be an example of sexism but these ads had nothing sexist in them at all. If any thought went into the sex of the character for these ads it was probably to chose a male to specifically *avoid* looking sexist.

I don't see how it is wrong asking the lady for the boss. How is he supposed to know she is the boss? She might be just an employee.

I've be disappointed if it was beer and not cheese...

this is bullshit! why else would i practice making towers of cards if it wouldn't give me a hot date? I feel so lied to right now

More like 5 things that literally affect no one who is smart enough to tie their own shoes.

I think the lesson here is that most human beings are actually stupid, after all, these adds exist because they sell products... so on a twisted level their content is vindicated. Capitalism, showing us what awful people we actually are.

And that is why commercials are the worst thing in the world

Oh, hey, a new Cracked video! ::clicks on video:: ::sees comment threads:: ::backs away slowly to the sane portion of the internet::

You know who's a really bad driver? Toad.

Is it just me, or is some of the sarcasm-but-not-really-sarcasm-except-for-the-part-where-there's-sarcasm in this video way too confusing to follow? Maybe it's just me. Also, in the first "bizarrely specific sexist stereotype," we see sexism against men, right? Then later on, mockery of the supposed men's rights movement. So....... which is it? Is there sexism or not?

Cracked always hits it home.

It's simple really. Privilege has a lot less to do with what is between your legs and what color any part of you is than it does where you were born and how much money belongs to the people who made you.

The ad at the beginning keeps glitching and slows the whole thing down, ohh

The Dove commercial was not trying to make women look stupid. It was using the placebo effect to show that self confidence has nothing to do with how you look but how YOU perceive YOURSELF. People use the placebo effect all the time. How you guys didn't figure that out is kinda sad lol.

I like how a sexist ad played before this video. It said something like "ladies be sure to tell your boyfriend that this movie is not the only awesome thing that will happen to him by the end of the night.

We desperately need eguality on both sides, Women should get egual pay, and men should be treated with respect, people will have you believe that only women are mistreated, and that's bullshit. In addition, women shouldn't have to feel like they have to prove their worth, like, "Hey, look at me, I'm a CEO, and you have a shitty desk job." or "I could kick your ass in a fight.", that just make you seem like whiney overeacher, instead of a decent, respectful human being. Both men, and women should be treated fairly.

Love how they show the "husbands are stupid" stereotype at the very end then do their best to explain it away....

Hey all of you angry geniuses arguing about whose more repressed (this isn't tumblr, by the way, that competition doesn't work here). I just thought I'd mention that maybe it's possible that there are actual and legitimate social issues facing people in all demographics and, maybe just maybe, admitting that others having persistent issues that are unfair challenges to their races and genders (yes, even white males and, yes white males, even white females!) doesn't undermine the problems that face your own? Maybe we aren't actually achieving anything by bickering about whose got it worse and maybe we're all actually behind hypocritical when we bitch about our problems, then turn around and totally invalidate someone else's problems? I can't wait to see if people think I'm a SWJ or a MRA, based on this.

That first Dove commercial was actually good. I think it made an important point. I had friends that I thought of while watching it who always describe themselves in terms that do not reflect what I see. I'm constantly trying to convince them other people don't look at them the way they look at themselves. Finally with that ad, I had something tangible to show them to back my claim. But yeah, the dumb husband commercials are getting old and are obnoxious.

Advertisements are set to a highly specific view point because that's really what they are going for, making people feel inadequate because they don't have that product. Its all about finding a target demographic, and categorizing them in a certain way that will make them feel like they "need" that product.

Well it makes sense, men see their wives as buzzkills and women like to think their husbands are incompetent. Advertisers exploit that - AND IT WORKS

None of these ads depict sexist stereotypes. But all the things you mock are just marketing forces at works. I get that this video is wrapped and presented as a "joke", but really, they show ads about people wanting those things, because those people are most likely to want those things. The man are made to look like a fool because it's in commercials catering to women. (Most women do the shopping for the house rather you like it or not.) Just as the beer and football themed ads are for men.

Their is a men's rights organization?! SIGN ME UP!

Well why would the boss stand at the counter near the cash register. Seems to me that that's the barista's job

With the UPS guys... I mean, how would he know? She was at the counter.

Wait, there are actually men's rights activists? Really?

the most sexist commercial I have ever seen is the "Allstate safe driving bonus check" commercial. the woman states "If men are better drivers than women, then why do I have this 'safe driving bonus check' from Allstate?" the guys opens his mouth to reply, "Silence!" she says. WTF!? I mean firstly, even counting statistics where men are better drivers, ONE woman who drives safe is not grounds for all women driving safe Is she implying ones' actions should be accountable across an entire demographic? Secondly, the statistics she refers to are huge. If true, then she would be of the smaller percentage of good women drivers, there are bad women drivers too, don't freak out now. lastly, I'm not sexist, I know there are more women than I can count who can drive better than me. Just because a woman can do something does not mean all women can, just because a man can do something does not mean all men can.

Seriously this is a comedy show why does this guy keep putting feminism in every ad and then at the end take time out to insult MRAs? Make a rant blog if you want but please keep your ideology out.

I actually think the dove one was pretty cool, in a sort of 'hey, you don't need products to be confident, you got what it takes all on your own' type way.

Almost 2022 and I’d like to think we’re doing better these days. But the only ads I see now are the 3 seconds before I can skip or the ads i see for other phone games while playing free phone games.

Since I apparently have no fucking life, here goes… Beer: Yeah, okay, these adverts are dumb. This is not why I'm here. Oh, wait, "Man, guys have completely lost their fucking minds, haven't they?" No. These are advertisements made by advertising companies, not magic windows into the collective male psyche. Dove: The placebo effect is a well documented phenomenon and "falling for it" (in some cases people actually recover faster from illness just from the illusion of placebo medicine helping; the power of positive thinking, eh?) doesn't make you dumb. "… women's problems are all in their heads?", when their problem is body dysmorphia, yes, yes it is in their heads. Computers (for her [sic]) - Buying shoes, dancing, going on dates and getting married are all things that many women do. Targeting their ads at the 100 or so female particle physicists in the country might not lead to a huge spike in sales. Plus, it's a fucking tickle-me-PC designed for simple people and folks who already have a computer but want an expensive toy to sit on the couch with. What do you expect her to be doing with it? Calibrating sensitive lab equipment? Maybe the UPS guy doesn't think she is the manager (yes, manager, who the fuck refers to them as "The Boss" aside from some tool trying to establish their own nickname) because she is just standing there behind the counter waiting like a part-time barista. SSD: Yes I too am shocked at the fact that the housewife who barely uses a computer doesn't know what an SSD drive is and the other two do. Housewives are notorious for their tech knowledge, systems analysts from around the world travel thousands of miles to consult the wisdom of the American housewife. All three characters are stupid and fucking weird looking. NEXT. Feminist Bullshit: Does it matter what the adverts are for? Apparently this is just a platform for feminist propaganda. I personally don't give a shit about advertising but you're being a massive hypocrite by first complaining about women being, "made to think they're crazy", or "given a placebo" as normal people would call it; yet when men are depicted as bumbling retards you choose to go off on an unrelated rant about how privileged men are and hold up a picture of a few dozen portraits of white men who have been dead for centuries. What the fuck does this have to do with anything?

Uuugh, people take stuff way too seriously.

3:00 It's called a placebo, it's not sexist.

I think the one with the guys driving over the cliff is hilarious.

This was well balanced, good work.

I feel like the sneaking around to watch football thing is kind of accurate... Know quite a few others' relationships that were strained over that

I'm glad I'm not the only guy disgusted by that Dove campaign. All beauty product ads take women for idiots, but Dove adds hypocrisy to the mix...

The woman in the windows advert wasn’t the boss. Plot twist She was just a crazy employee and a compulsive liar.

5:18 sounds like Microsoft tried to copy Simon Sinek's example for what Mac would sound like if they communicated like everyone else. You done goofed, MS!

Usually bosses aren't working the front counter and are in the back somewhere. That delivery man assumed the obvious and the woman overreacted.

I would like to see just one commercial where Guy A, who did the stupid thing, is black and guy B, who did the smart thing, is white. The doofus can't always be the white guy.

Oh my god. The point of the Dove ad wasn't to insult women. It was to show them that beauty and confidence is in the mind, not the body. It's called placebo, DOB. I am disappointed.

6:54 Whose mother here would know what an SSD was? Show of hands. Exactly! What nerds and stock brokers here do? All of you?! Of course!

No dove just went to youtube HQ and asked for five people who subscribed to Feminist Frequency.

If only companies understood their customer base as well as the PC police we wouldn't need videos of this sort (which there are waaaay too many of).

The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park wer FEMALE!

Women depicted poorly in ads: "oeh those evil men and their sexist ways, pandering to other evil men who think the same way" Men depicted poorly in ads: "oeh those evil men and their sexist ways, making women consumers look evil" Man = evil. Woman = good. Got it, Cracked.

whats with everyone putting words in mra's mouths. I see this over and over again. Seems to be some sort of assumption its man's version of feminism and its not

I watch for Roger. Only.

Who the fuck goes antiquing? What is antiquing? You just buy antiques for fun???

Omg, I HATE those "honestly" commercials. And now I hate that song too.

Love this because lovely people need to know that good feminists don't think women are better, they believe in equal rights for all genders.

I'm just gonna say wedding planning is fucking hell, and I'm still In it at the moment, I have so much shit to do

Dove's ad is mostly pointless, not malignant. Humanity has known the Placebo Effect is real, and we've known it for years and years and years. There was no reason to show us again that it works.

"Is it a poptart?" I cracked (no pun intended) up at that!!

7:51 on the left side of the poster... "return baby to hospital" I DIED 😂

I agree the ad is unrealistic, but why would the postman assume the person working on the counter of a coffee shop would be the owner? Most of the time if an owner works in their shop, they atleast work as the manager.

that was enjoyable

Why does this guy keep tossing his head back? I expect him to start whinnying any second.

The delivery guy only talked to one person and he may not have known the boss was her. Its not sexism its just a question. Don't look for things that aren't there. And wheres the sexism with a woman planning her wedding im genuinely curious

I've now watched four Cracked videos. No more for me, I'm afraid. The reason is that all of them have featured a hyper-excited narrator being oh-so-self-consciously smug about the hidden meanings and agendas built into whatever it is they are commenting on. I've seen enough of the world now to know that when a person says something, sometimes it's nothing more than a person saying that something. (Gasp! Shock! Horror!) I'll pause a moment to let you get over that epiphany............OK? Ready? Sometimes, I find it easier to take things at face value. There isn't always a hidden agenda, bent on suppressing or repressing someone or a group or an idea, in the hope of impressing some other one. Enough with the pseudo-intellectual edginess that seems to be par for the course with these types of videos. Yeesh![OK, cue the social critics who will look at my message here and make judgements about me, my person, my leanings, my outlook, and even my validity as a human being. I fully expect someone to pick up on certain words and phrases and attempt a forensic analysis. They'll look at things like my use of grammar and vocabulary, and draw from that a conclusion that I am most likely well-educated. (Actually, I put in the "most-likely" there - they'll say I AM well-educated, which naturally means that I am rich, and therefore a bad person.)They'll probably look at my use of "par for the course" and determine that, because I used a golf analogy, I must be (statistically anyway) a white man of a certain age, who is conservative, fairly well-off, a professional in middle to senior management, and so on. Again, therefore, I am no doubt racist, sexist, and probably actively misogynist as well.I may be some, all or none of these things, but there will be some who will state categorically that I am.Now the argument for the golf analogy kind of falls flat. If you call me out for it, it proves that you also know it is a golfing term, and so all of those things you ascribe to me must also be true for you. It is the same logic, right?I'd actually say it is more telling that I can use a word like analogy correctly to show some of those things about education, etc., but I won't go into it.OK, I apologise for my diatribe about smug social commentators - especially when I've just done a similar thing myself. It seems to be contagious. But I hope you understood my point.Have a good one.Bystander]

one thing you're forgetting when it comes to the idiot househusband trope used in commercials however is that those commercials are targeted at women, it's what they want to see, it doesn't matter who creates the commercial. also MRA's are not saying men have it worse than women, we're saying we have issues too that need to be adressed, issues that in many instances are more pressing than the bullshit feminists complain about in today's world. oh no i've just been micro-aggressed, well that's too bad when men are statistically about 4 times more likely to suffer actual aggression.

Best line: "Is it a pop tart?"

Well that's 8 minutes of my life I'm not getting back.

Wow, licking feminist foot big time, but the poor guy looks so forced that I feel sorry for him in spite his dogmatic delivery.