To love the new Asda Xmas ad?

[amy175]

That's just what happens in this house too! I just loved the "what's for tea love?"

My dh could do all of that as could I.

I find it offensive to suggest that dh is either incapable or unwilling to pull his weight and that I would put up with him doing that!

Why can't he do it? What would he do if he lived alone?

I though I had stepped back a couple of generations. I wonder who the test group was when they tested this advert. 'Whats for dinner love' how about a big bag of fuck off and get it yourself.

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Saw it last night and my immediate feeling was that it was a very patronising advert.

But I did once have a Christmas day a bit like that and hated every minute of it.

It was the first one after my eldest DC arrived and the whole of our extended family wanted to come to our house to coo over the baby.

Unlike the advert it was both me and DH running around like mad while everyone else sat and watched crap TV ,played with my DS and made endless demands for cups of tea.

This us why we now ban visitors on Xmas day.

The woman looks like a complete idiot, running round being a martyr.

Yes, it's sexist, but it is also true for a large proportion of the families in this country, including ours.

The advert has also worked in that we have noticed it and are all talking about it.

And vowing not to show there.
if your h treats you like that ..,

Perhaps it's only true for a large proportion of the families in this country, because adverts like that make it look like the norm.

If they showed the couple working together, maybe it would encourage a few more families to follow suit.

It's a pile of shit. It makes men look fucking useless, and that women are martyrs for doing everything with a smile on their faces. If it really is like that in your house I would re-evaluate my marriage

I'd like the ad if it were the mum and dad both running around like headless chickens, but as it is it's sexist claptrap.

I agree worra. Adverts like this emphasise that this is the norm.

It may get people talking but it actually makes me less likely to ever set foot in Asda (as if that were even possible) so am not sure it's effective.

It's not funny, it's not original, it's insulting to men and women.

I'll stick to Sainsbury's.

I like it too. It is just what happens in this house except I don't shop at Asda. I always have to smile at anyone on here complaining about 'sexist shite' when they have signed up to a website called MUMSnet. Which can't be at all sexist, can it?

'Whats for dinner love' how about a big bag of fuck off and get it yourself.

^ This and then some^^

Also agree with headless if it was both parents doing all that and the kids asking what's for tea I would relate to that, but the thought of doing the whole lot on my own, then smiling lovingly at the bastard family. Nah.

What is sexist about being a Mum??

You just loved the "what's for tea, love?"? Do you need help stepping out of the '70s?

Even as a SAHM who does all of the cooking, DH knows that if he ever asked that question, he'd be sucking his dinner through a straw.

Well I'm a SAHM whose DH works long shifts, so I do most of the housework, present buying etc. But this advert doesnt sound like it represents me (no TV, havent seen it). I go to my mums, where my dad will cook dinner

lovelyladuree, I've always found Mumsnet rather nonsexist, by parents for parents. My partner would be insulted by the suggestion that the Asda advert reflects men, he loves MN.

It makes my eyes twitch.

If my boyfriend was that fucking useless, well, he woudn't be my boyfriend. And if I behaved in such a martyr-ish fashion, my boyfriend woukd have got rid ages ago.

Borh of them in that advert are utter idiots.

I'm a sahm and my dh does half the housework. That ad is such shite. Then what do you expect from such a sexist, unethical company in the first place.