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Bad Amazon! Bad!

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Cindersdonegood · 20/09/2018 14:14

AIBU to be irked by this?

I just watched an Amazon Echo advert with Alexa kindly reminding a SAHD that,
"Laura says the teething ring is in the freezer",
"Laura scheduled a play date for 3pm" and finally,
"Laura loves you and you're doing a great job".

This poor clueless 'ickle man having to have his missus leave instructions and praise programmed onto a device so he can look after his own child.
How nice he was babysitting for her eh? She's so lucky that her man will do her job right?

My husband would give me the side eye and ask if I was on drugs if I treated him like that when looking after his own children!
And I'd be wondering what the hell I was thinking when choosing to settle down with someone as useless as Peppa Pig's Daddy Pig.

This is cringey, right?:

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littlecabbage · 20/09/2018 14:16

Yup, I thought the same when I saw it last night.

Merryoldgoat · 20/09/2018 14:16

I though the same. I fucking hate that ad.

TheQueef · 20/09/2018 14:18

I tought my Alexa to call DS a douche.
Harder than it sounds.
Funny though.

DS is an adult btw.

stickygotstuck · 20/09/2018 14:18

Fully agree.

Sosomego · 20/09/2018 14:18

Yes, I had the same reaction when I saw the ad. Poor feckless man can't be trusted to look after his own child. Utter nonsense and an offensive stereotype.

LyndorCake · 20/09/2018 14:20

I certainly didn't see it like that.

Hideandgo · 20/09/2018 14:21

It’s bad how they are portraying the man but from a woman’s perspective this just ties us more into that fucking role of being expected to bear the emotional load. This ad is far more damaging to women than men. I’m off to officially complain!

AHoleInTheWorld · 20/09/2018 14:22

My husband would be disturbed and offended if I had Alexa telling him what to do...as if he doesnt know already.

easyandy101 · 20/09/2018 14:23

Pure cringe

Not so much for the tired stereotyping (so common in ads that it just washes by) but the thought of people communicating that way

Grim

spacefighter · 20/09/2018 14:24

My ex would of needed little reminders like that lol.

Cindersdonegood · 20/09/2018 14:28

That's kind of what I was thinking Hideandgo. It's doing us no favours at all. Funnily enough, I am the stereotypical SAHM. I cook all the dinners and I do sort a lot of stuff out but it's only because I want to. And no way would I be leaving DH instructions like that when he's home with the kids. Hmm

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Yabbers · 20/09/2018 14:28

I didn't see this one that way. Our house is a fairly good partnership, emotional load probably more mine than his but other than that pretty much 50/50. I saw that ad and immediately thoughts having a few Alexa reminders for him would be useful. As 50/50 as he is, his memory is shocking. If I don't add DD's appointments to his outlook calendar, he'd forget them. That doesn't make him weak or useless or a babysitter, it just makes him a bloke with a bad memory.

And I often tell him he is doing a great job as a dad. He also often tells me I am doing a great job as a mum.

Would it have been a good advert if they had done a role reversal? I think so. Is this particular advert fairly representative of many first time families, even those with a pretty well shared workload? Absolutely.

Womaningreen · 20/09/2018 14:36

oh that is horrendous!

DarlingNikita · 20/09/2018 14:39

if I don't add DD's appointments to his outlook calendar, he'd forget them. That doesn't make him weak or useless or a babysitter, it just makes him a bloke with a bad memory.

But how would he manage if YOU also had 'a bad memory'? Or if he were a lone parent?

I fucking hate this crap. It just reinforces the idea that women sort everything out and men need looking after and ha ha, isn't that funny and adorable and a little bit exasperating.

Atlantea · 20/09/2018 14:39

my DH laughed when we saw this ad, i just said "fuck off" at the end

safetyfreak · 20/09/2018 14:41

It is interesting reading the YouTube comments as the male posts are not happy being made the fool of either, and oh yeah Laura must be banging someone else.

SmellyHead · 20/09/2018 14:42

YANBU it's a stupid advert

AbsintheFriends · 20/09/2018 14:44

And somehow he comes across as being the sympathetic one. Poor bloke, having such a bossy partner...

Gersemi · 20/09/2018 14:45

if I don't add DD's appointments to his outlook calendar, he'd forget them. That doesn't make him weak or useless or a babysitter, it just makes him a bloke with a bad memory.

Why can't he put the appointments on his calendar?

And the advert isn't just about appointment, it's about little things like where the teething ring is. If she has time to programme Alexa, surely she has time just to tell her husband where the thing is? Surely he could manage to remember that for a few hours?

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 20/09/2018 14:46

Hahaha, my DH once scheduled a play date for a time when he was at work and I was with DS and DD. I hit the roof, told him that I wasn't his nanny and he had no right to schedule my time for me and made him phone the other parent, apologise and cancel.

PaulHollywoodsleftbollockhair · 20/09/2018 14:47

Knob cheese

iklboo · 20/09/2018 14:49

If she has time to programme Alexa, surely she has time just to tell her husband where the thing is? Surely he could manage to remember that for a few hours?

DH can manage to forget something I've told him within minutes.

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JassyRadlett · 20/09/2018 14:51

‘Laura regrets having married an incompetent twat who has checked out of parenting to the the extent she needs to set these reminders, but feels she’s stuck with you now.’

ArsenicNLace · 20/09/2018 14:54

Oh yes!

I said to DP the other night after seeing that advert, 'And Laura is a patronising cow!!'

JAMMFYesPlease · 20/09/2018 14:55

As 50/50 as he is, his memory is shocking. If I don't add DD's appointments to his outlook calendar, he'd forget them

Whoever makes the appointments in this house outside them on the calendar. That's just common sense. But I wouldn't keep reminding my DH or put the appointments he has made onto the calendar (unless a new calendar and I was transfering things across).

My DH has a shocking memory but I don't baby him. He knows to write it down himself. Like an adult should do.

The only reason I could see the wife putting the reminder into Alexa is if she was the one who booked the appointment and put it in straight after. Everything else is bad for men and women.

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