...to dislike the Thomson 'Simon the Ogre' ad?

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I keep seeing it on TV and it's annoying me.

Dad of the family is an ogre except when he gets an expensive Thomson holiday. Just seems so wrong in so many different ways.

Gorgeously beautiful mum with her perfect peachy backside isn't an ogre. Is that because she doesn't 'work as hard' as Simon? Or because she's a mum and just has to suck it up?

Is Simon the ogre really just an abusive ogery arse when he's not on holiday? Poor Simon's wife and daughter. Does Mrs Simon need to LTB?

It would make more sense if the whole family were ogres who needed to de-stress on a expensive Thomson holiday. As it is it just leaves me wondering what hell their ordinary lives must be.

DH thinks the ad is aimed at the men who book their family holidays - it gives out the message to them that 'yes I do work very hard and need a holiday'. Which is fair enough.

But what about ogre mums? And ogre children?

But she fell in love with Simon the ogre, not Simon the human. Perhaps they get divorced when thdy get back home because he's not ogreish enough any more and they look back on the holiday as the worst decision they ever made.

Vixxen

Ok

I thought they should have gone the whole hog and recreated the myth of Sisyphus to give the full existential effect.

January - Sisyphus pushes the rock up a hill. It rolls down again.
Febuary, March, April, May, June, July - same again.
In August he pushes the rock up the hill, only to find it stays put - and there's a luxury beach where he can stretch out and take it easy. Sisyphus settles back on to a sunlounger, cocktail in hand, and smiles broadly.
At which, someone kicks a small ledge away from the rock and it starts to roll down the hill. "Noooooo!" screams Sisyphus as the skies turn grey and he is once again compelled to push the rock back up the hill FOR ALL TIME.

Dystopian advertising (C) vladthedisorganised..

That'd make me book a fortnight in Faliraki, Vlad

I like the cut of your jib.

I understand it's an all inclusive rock, then?

Vixxxxxen and Vlad

I hate it too. I don't like the bit where one of his horns falls off whilst he is in bed. It's a very strange advert.

To me, the story is that this man is stressed out and his 'ogre-ness' (ogriety?) is like an ogre in his life. Or he is an ogre before he relaxes on holiday. Either way, it's a creepy ad.

I'm annoyed because it seems to greenlight the bloke to be an ogre to his DW and DC in the first place. It would have been far more effective for everyone to be a bit of monster and gradually unwind.

Mind you the whole concept is flawed, as if they have have used the woman and painted her as a shrieking harridan, that would have been wrong too.

do women actually work in advertising, or are they the much ed at 'mans women'?

DH and I hate it. He says it's insulting, that that is what Thomson thinks will ring a bell with the typical family. It isn't anything we recognise. Are lots of men really so unpleasant they're not really part of the family until they've had a massage in Tenerife?

Have to say I find the Virgin airlines advert gender stereotyping too.

Why not have a female pilot or scientist gliding through Gatwick, and three male cabin crew.

And yes I am over thinking things. I'm home confined to bed. I've never watched as many adverts in my life and I'm a bit at a lot of them.

Yep, hate that one too!

I had to rewind it to believe what I was seeing
But I thought I might be a bit sensitive because my H was/is an ogre and no amount of nice holidays made him into a nice dad or husband

I'm with you OP. For all the good reasons mentioned. Sexist shit.

I quite like it. A friend of mine posted on thomsons fb page about it and someone commented saying I bet you are a barrel of laughs on holiday.

I hate the virgin one too. Living near Gatwick (and having worked there) the virgin cabin crews are already right up their own arses without being told their are flipping special and superheroes ffs. They don't fly there so much as they used to now easy jet has taken over but they used to think they owned the place.

I hate it. First time I saw it, I thought it was a domestic violence/EA type of advert the way that mum and daughter tiptoe round him.

To me, it makes being a cruel bastard normal.

If it's meant as a joke, it's just not funny.

YADNBU

Hate it so much - DH thinks I lost my marbles when I saw it for the first time. It's wrong on so many levels and takes us back the 50s. I can't remember last time DH booked/organised a holiday and it's usually me who needs it. DH is the one with the peachy bottom, looking serene, relaxed and in control (no bikini though).

I will be avoiding Thomson like the plague now and have told them so. Me? overreact? Not ever.....