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thoughts while shaving in bed
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, March 25 2015, 14:22:12 (UTC)
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....way way back in the 60s I saw a commercial on teevee that took my breath away....I couldn't believe any adult organization would promote such a message, as a way of selling anything. In this case it was some potato chip manufacturer....Granny Goose, I think.

The commercial opens with a cute girl of about five, sitting on a sofa before a teevee set, munching chips from a bag clutched in one hand. Dad enters, obviously at the end of a hard work day, maybe a little hungry. He sets his briefcase down and slumps onto the sofa next to his daughter, who has not a word to say to him, nor even a look, so busy is she with her cartoons and chips...a few seconds pass and Dad turns to munching daughter and asks if he can have one, chip. No, she says...they're all mine. Dad smiles weakly and the commercial ends...the point being these chips are so good you don't want to share with anyone, not even your parents.

I thought then that this was an alarming message to be sending....it promoted selfishness and did it "cutely" too....what impact could this message, and there would be many more like it to come, have on young children, in other words, on Americans and America? The motive was surely to sell more product, but how? By making children, the future consumers of everything, more intent on having it all, being unsociable, unkind, uncaring and greedy. And look at just our waistlines and diabetes rates today, not to mention greed, to see how well the campaign did.

Last week I saw another one, only this time it was the parents behaving like the child. The product this time was ice cream, Breyers I think. The ad opens with a father and mother EACH with their own container of ice cream, not a portion, but the whole fucking container! Each with its own flavor...they are eating rapturously, even erotically as they prolong the stroke and twist the spoon and lick the tip and mouth the creamy ice cream...their eyes appear to be glazed over, their heads tilted back their breath panting....into this scene walks, what else, another cute child, a little boy this time who asks if he can have some....the parents immediately look guilty, just like they were caught in an afternoon sex act...their eyes dart back and forth as they look to each other for help in ways to "explain" denying the child "some"...from TWO containers. Almost as if he'd asked to join dad in fondling Mom's breasts.

Then they begin to stammer out lies...the ice cream is for adults only, it isn't really good for you, especially not for children and "you wouldn't like it anyway"...even to "it's bad for you"...as if it were sex, or booze or cigarettes...needless to say the kid isn't convinced, the ad ends with Mom and Dad looking guilty and shamed BUT each with his and her ice cream CONTAINER well in hand. In other words, with orgasm complete...an orgasm of selfishness this time turned against a child by its two parents.....let's see what the next forty years brings us by way of behavior and "values".



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