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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMen's rights activists furious over Campbell's soup "Mom" commercial
Sampling of the comments (found on youtube in the video's comments section):
"Flip the genders. Sick wife says her dad use to make her soup to her husband. He throws a phone at her and tells her to call him. Not funny anymore, is it ladies?"
"... they're just like any other corporation or politician or even preacher today. They know they can make a lot of money off women and the best way to take a woman's money is inflate their egos. Remember women are the biggest consumers. Companies don't care about offending men and this soup company is no different. They know men can even make their own soup from scratch. Most chefs and cooks are male. But women today can't cook for shit. It makes perfect sense for this canned soup company to pander to women."
"Sorry but this attitude is universal to women despie how many claim to be "not like that". A multi million dollar company wouldn't blow millions on producing a commercial without the expectation it would appeal to women."
"Never buying another can of Campbell's soup. Fuck you, feminist America."
ProfessorGAC
(65,466 posts)The guy writing the screed is a dumb as dirt.
But, i also don't care for the commercial no matter who's on the couch and who's flipping the phone.
It's just dumb.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)Besides, the guy in the commercial was feigning illness so he wouldn't have to get his ass off the couch.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)He laughed out loud, I didn't find it funny at all. I wasn't offended or angry about it, I just thought she was not a very nice person. If Campbell's wanted to assert the feminist aspect, seems like she could have said "make yourself some Campbell's soup". JMHO, but I'm no longer in the demographic for most commercials anyway. My demographic is all about diabetes, motorized scooters, and sexual dysfunction meds.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Makes me laugh either way
fried eggs
(910 posts)The man wanted to be babied and the woman didn't play into it. If he was truly sick, he wouldn't have made the soup (and she wouldn't have jokingly thrown the phone at him).
jonno99
(2,620 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Call the doctor. It's a nasty commercial for both actors.
Marr
(20,317 posts)That's advertising. They're not talking to everyone-- they're talking to a specific demographic. Save your 'outrage'.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)But then again, on such an occasion I would actually look sick, which would be nothing like the guy on the couch in that commercial who looks absolutely fine.
fried eggs
(910 posts)That's why she didn't take him seriously.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)He's faking!
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)it was so much better than Campbells. Potatoes chopped into tiny squares, cooked in water until done, added milk, butter and PEPPER and reheated. I still use it. I quit using Campbells long ago in favor of Progresso.
Iggo
(47,603 posts)But only a little bit.
petronius
(26,614 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)I've seen in it action: I've had pneumonia at the same time my husband had a cold. One of us almost didn't make it 😋
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)my wife twisted her ankle this weekend and spent the weekend oon the couch - I can only imagine how happy she's be if I told her to call her mom
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)What an extreme reaction. I am a feminist and would have probably made my husband the soup, but so what? People are looking at reasons to be pissed at women for existing if they go ballistic over a commercial.
Vinca
(50,336 posts)The real obscenity is how crappy the soup is.
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...or more likely their victim hood won't let them admit which sex is on top.