to think the new ASDA advert is the biggest pile of sexist crap in a long time

[MaureenLove]

to think its trying to APPEAL to women? dur!

Organising the entire Christmas single handedly does make you a drudge

Well that is definitely what I do now because I am a single parent.

Im still not a drudge.

Amber

In our house it's as follows.

All Christmas presents for DS have been chosen as a couple. This is a luxury we have due to me not working and being free when my partner is. When I go back to work it will be done online mostly, by both of us as we share finances. We don't spend from the joint account unless we've both agreed or it's a huge emergency.

Wrapping is a joint panic as we're both shit at it. We'll end up doing in on Christmas eve, tipsy and scoffing tangerines.

DP offered to do the whole dinner this year as we may be having more than us three for the first time and I panicked. (I have trouble telling time so have a tendency to burn things) We agreed he would orchestrate and I would be the dogsbody (think peeling and boiling rather than roasting).

I chose the decorations as it's fun and DP cares not for tinsel and the like, but as I have fallen off two ladders in the last 8 months DP will be hanging the decorations up.

That's different. Doing it all because there's no one else is completely different to doing it all while some fat fuck sits and watches you. You are being obtuse

That's what my Christmas used to be like with a lazy bastard my DH
..... and then I got divorced

She had he evening off for tea, she went to Iceland.

Kim re washing up; no I didnt wash up as I hate doing it, either my EX did it by hand, or at some point we had a dishwasher, but no I wasnt involved in the clearing up afterwards.

Obviously you're not a drudge if you're a single parent, I'm talking about people who enable their partner to sit on their bum and be waited on.

Amber, if a partner helps and does some of the jobs, then yes, you're not a drudge.

If you do EVERY single thing and and he does fuck all, then yes, you're a drudge.

And clearly you were not a drudge because your partner was helping with other stuff.

People are mocking the ad because the woman is in charge of every single thing.

The children in the add looked old enough to help too.

Does anyone gives their children jobs on Christmas Day?

I hate that advert but unfortunately it's typical of many households.
I'm thinking of boycotting Asda and Christmas because of it - not really, I love Christmas and Asda has really good offers.

I'm a single mum and I have to do everything as there's no-one else to do it, but at least I'm not tripping over a lazy slob of a husband whilst I whizz around and I get the best seat when we sit down for Christmas dinner. And, I get really great presents, bought by me.

chubb no I am not being obtuse.

I have had more christmases as an adult in a couple than as a single person. Only difference now is I have to organise the dishes myself.

I still enjoy spending hours in the kitchen, same as when I wasnt single.

Thanks for answering cortana!

christmas eve wrapping, yes same here always!

The asda by us is lovely. Food isn't 'shit' or I wouldn't buy it. Or to he correct dh wouldn't. He is the type of bloke that does spread sheets on different supermarkets, price, produce, value for money etc.

He does all the shopping and cooking and is fantastic on Christmas Day. I clean and drink ( not always in that order)

Asda advert is crap but sorry its still a great value for money shop..

Amber, I love cooking too. There's nothing I like more than shutting myself off and making stuff.

DH likes it too. We argue sometimes about who gets to cook.

None of this makes either of us a lowly, put-upon person.

The problem with the ad is that it's a lazy stereotype of a woman doing ALL the domestic work and practically wiping her husband's arse.

What message does that send to anyone?

It is insulting to both genders.

Just watched the ad again.

watch when mum brings in the turkey...where is dad? hes in the kitchen too so she wasnt doing it all.

Theres more but carry on being outraged.

My husband works 60/70 hours a week and I work 12/15.

We decide on what we are getting for the dc together and either go out Christmas shopping together on a weekday in December or order online - either of us will do that.

He organises, buys and wraps all the presents for his side of the family and delivers them to them.

I do likewise for mine.

We share writing the Christmas cards 50/50.

We go out and buy the Christmas tree together as a family and usually the dc and I will decorate it.

I usually think about any other decorations we might put up - buy a wreath, display the cards etc.

I do most of the food shopping online but he, me or both of us will go out and do the last minute shop at Sainsburys on the 23rd or Christmas Eve.

We wrap the dc presents together between us.

On Christmas day I usually cook dinner but the prep of veg is a joint effort and my mum joins in with that. He pours drinks and tidies up unwrapping mess, lays table with the dc, organises breakfast and gets the dc washed and dressed.

I suppose someone somewhere thinks he deserves a medal for all that.

One aisle of fresh produce and the rest is junk food. Really?..

The blatant bollocks and snobbery on this thread leaves a really bad taste. "Oh I can't say I go to Asda, people might think I'm poor".

As I said before, it's somewhere to buy food, to judge a person for where they buy food is so schoolgirlish.
To make assumptions on what sort of person somebody is depending on where they buy food... Jesus wept, some people on here are crackers.

I would say the same about this ad regardless of which supermarket it was for. The waitrose ad is particularly annoying this year, I can't stand Deliah or Heston.

I'm a single mum and I have to do everything as there's no-one else to do it, but at least I'm not tripping over a lazy slob of a husband whilst I whizz around and I get the best seat when we sit down for Christmas dinner. And, I get really great presents, bought by me.

I have nothing against Asda usually I just don't have one near me. I love Morrisons so it's not as if I only accept groceries from Fortnum & Mason.

It really is just this ad.

95% of the disgust on this thread is NOT about Asda as a shop! Its about the message in their advertising.