Reply #143: For me personally?

[darkstar3]

I already stated elsewhere that the commercial wouldn't have been nearly as sexist if they'd been equal opportunity about it. The point I was making downthread with my "wink-wink nudge-nudge" example is that displays of eroticism are fairly useless in getting important messages across. They work to sell products, not ideas and lifestyles. If the commercial had been 50/50 or 100% men, it would still be shit because it fails miserably to advance PETA's supposed primary goal of the ethical treatment of animals.

Furthermore, your admittance that this commercial wouldn't bug you no matter the gender makeup of the cast doesn't mean you can accuse people offended by it of pearl-clutching. (Which BTW, many here would call that a sexist remark.) You're making an incorrect assumption about me and others who think the commercial sucks, and that assumption is borne out of your (purposeful?) conflation of the problem of sexism and the concept of sexual activity.