To really, really hate that new dulux advert.

[Quality]

The one that has the blue bedroom with all the inspirational football stuff and a man talking about his hopes and dreams for his son, and then he says something like 'oh well', paints it pink and it has flowers + a dollshouse + that's it.
grr

[Flisspaps]

No, YANBU.

[PortBlacksand]

• really???

[Quality]

here you go.

[wukter]

Just saw it today, couldn't believe it.

[TheOldestCat]

YANBU.

Pukeworthy ad.

[zenon]

What's wrong with it?

[Quality]

zenon - I just find the 'oh my son, who I was hoping for, I have all these dreams of a glittering career and fame and fortune, but you are a girl, so I can forget all that and just give you pink stuff because obviosuly you will never be a glittering famous success' subtext really depressing.

[Flisspaps]

I hope she grows up hating pink. And football.

I want her to be a rugby loving tomboy. who ends up playing for England.

That'll teach him for calling her Beardsley.

[Adair]

I don't want to watch it. Sounds awful

[Adair]

Ok, watched it. As depressing as it sounded. Probably no grounds for complaint as comedy sexism... well, we're only havin' a laugh, aren't we?

[Quality]

Exactly adair, we must just have no sense of humour.

[starkadder]

It is a shit ad, but just as unfair for a son to be automatically installed in some kind of weird football shrine as for a daughter to be all pinkified from birth.

[Quality]

Very true starkadder, I suppose having 2 dd's makes me notice the girl thing a bit more, but either way it's a ridiculous advert for paint.

[DisenchantedLullaby]

and to add insult to injury, the shade of paint looked like a school dinner blancmange circa 1985

[Quality]

[lazarusb]

I have 2 DSs. They both hate football. Imagine how gutted my dh would have been (had he given a monkeys).

[NormalityBites]

Horrendous. Exactly the type of thing I rage against

[ElisaDay]

it's all sanctimonious gender stereotyping repressive labelling advertising bollocks anyway

so there

[ElisaDay]

[ChippingIn]

Oh for the love of God, you lot really do overthink things sometimes! It's a paint advert, both colours are horrible - but it's really not worth getting your knickers in a knot over!

[Adair]

No, quite. That;s why it is just wearily depressing rather than stand up and wave placards over.

And agree, it is depressing for both genders.

[MilkNoSugarPlease]

Ach, it's an advert for paint...can't say I'd be wound up by it...apparent sexism or not

Appalling shade of pink mind you!

[ChippingIn]

Why is it 'depressing' for both genders?

I find all this 'shock, horror' over Pink & Blue all the time, just a tad over the top. Most girls generally do like/prefer pink, most boys generally do like/prefer blue - so what? If they don't, that's fine - no-one is making them have it and no-one is beating them for wanting something different.

Why all the hand-wringing/depression/shock/outrage??? Surely there are more important things to save that for??

[Adair]

Oh just read all the other threads on this. Of course, nowt wrong with pink and blue in themselves. My daughter is running round in a pink fairy dress right now

It was the 'my son WILL be like this. Oh well, my daughter WILL be like this instead' that I -and others- found a bit sigh. It is just a sigh, as I said... not wound up.

Agree not sure who would see that pink and go 'ooh yes, MUST rush out and buy THaT!'

[ChippingIn]

I have absolutely NO idea who would see that colour & buy it, unless it was for someone you really disliked!!

I can understand a little bit of a 'sigh' that there's the assumption that all boys will like this and all girls will like that .... but all of this hand-wringing/hate hate hate/anger/disbelief/depression just way over the top...