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!

But is it not true?

What the actual fuck do men do at Christmas, aside from spending 2 seconds holding the Christmas tree?

So are you angry women saying that you would have accepted the ad to be showing a man doing all the things that have upset you in the ad?

Come on...I can just hear you now.

So are you angry women saying that you would have accepted the ad to be showing a man doing all the things that have upset you in the ad?

No I'd have preferred if it was closer to the reality that I know and shown a division of labour.

i think it is pretty true in most families, it doesnt offend me in the slightest.

squoosh thats not true in many families. yours might be but most arent.

Its pretty typical of all the families I know including working and none working mums.
I don't know any men who shop or plan or do much towards xmas.
Dh will "help" if I ask and sometimes offer if he has the time. He would never think of things himself though.
So the ad is typical imo

I find it hard to believe that most families are the same as the family in that ad.

I can believe the shopping and the cooking but every single other thing down to cleaning up after the meal? Even my grandparents were more liberated than that, and they were pretty old school.

you all know rather shit men then.
I find a lazy man so unattractive

Love the mtchell and webb clip!!! So true

HAHA fluffyraggies

Think Asda can go and sit in the corner with Iceland.

my dh isnt even at home in the week to organise anything anyway saying he is lazy is a sweeping statement isnt it maureen

plus i like things done my way the tree to look a certain way etc.

Oh my god! the bit where she sits down on the pouffe and is lower than everyone else even the kids, and has to be propped up by Asda! christ on a bike, that's bad.

still giggling a bit too much at intervals at fluffyraggies's comment

control freakery

i cant see how the man raised a toast
shes virtually on the floor!

he raised a toast to say ( in his head) " yes i have conned her again that she likes to do things her way - RE SULT"

LADEEEEEEES Please.

You are being manipulated.

The corporate nobheads sat round a table saying what will get us alot of attention from the women who do all the shopping this festive season.

EEerrrrr, well maybe an article about a woman in Asda saying her life is hard as she is sooooo good-looking that men fall over themselves and give her free bottles of champers as she is so delightfully fresh and attractive, Naaaaahhhhh its been done before.

AAah Well, let's show a super mum type doing everything for Xmas with family members sitting around on their arses and the husband being a complete sexist areshole, that should get some response!

YEEEEEAAH - high fives.

Talking is one thing, but does it get non Asda shoppers racing to do their shopping in Asda?

If that beardy lard bucket was my DP I'd kick his arse up and down the street and tell him to make his own cunting dinner.

Have not had time to read entire thread but I must point out that this ad is nothing in annoying terms compared to HERE COME THE FUCKING GIRLS.

I also hate the 'solid oak furniture' ad - the one where it'snot fair on your pore awd mum to let the old girl eat a turkey dinner (in black and white) on her lap. Oh no! Got to go to Oak Furniture Land and buy a lovely new, solid oak table (in colour!) so that you can all laugh your faces off having fun!

Not sexist but definitely something Ist!

I'm not sure that it is actually that sexist. I think that the mum in this ad has control isshoos - she is clearly not interested in her husbands opinion right from the start. I suspect that he is the downtrodden member of that relationship.