Bad Amazon! Bad!

[Cindersdonegood]

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?:

This reminds me of a Daz advert from years ago where the woman/wife/mother had gone out for some reason and he had to do his own laundry. He had to read the instructions on the pack but because, being a man, he was so dimwitted about household chores that he tipped the powder out of the box. I remember my dad hating that advert because it was so insulting towards men.

There was another one where the dad has to do the supermarket shop but doesn't know what half the stuff was so his young daughter had to tell him. The implication of this is that women know all this stuff right from being young girls and that men are just clueless about all household things.

The annoying thing is, ads like this normalise this idea that women run the household, despite also working and having a life of her own, and are actually happy to do so and just accept that the men and boys they live with have no idea how to do even basic tasks like laundry, making up a bottle, getting a baby to sleep, cleaning the kitchen or going to the supermarket and children watch it and grow up thinking that this is just how it is.

@GoodbyeSummer I remember both those advers and they were indeed just as bad.

Yes, although these ads seem insulting to men, they are, at their heart, actually more insulting to women. Running the household is not valued at all in society. So being described as useless in the home isn’t actually that bad because when you’re a big important man, you don’t need to bother about the household because your woman will take care of all that crap. So although they seem to infantalise men and make women look like the essential glue that holds everything together, this is just reinforcing that women belong in the home and men belong out of it. And OP, you are so right about the ridiculousness of men being able to perform complex tasks at work, yet unable to cook a simple meal at home without burning the house down.

In all fairness, DH didn't want to change nappies first because he was scared he'd break DD. He got the hang of most things though but had to learn hard and fast.

Can I add a bad, bad Clinton Cards into the mix???

Looking for a mug for work, but based on clients I regular work at something ceramic is a bit risky.

Found a stand of old fashioned tin mugs in Clinton, I thought "how cool and quirky!! They have names on too!!"

All men's names and traditional "men's jobs" (top electrician, best plumber, you get the idea!!)

I asked the shop assistant where the stand of women's names were.....

"We don't do them"

"Why not?"

"Because women wouldn't want mugs like that would they? They're designed for men, so that they don't get broken at work, they can just chuck them in their toolbox can't they?"

I literally had no words.

Sometimes I think we have regressed to the dark ages. Amazon and Clinton are living proof.

@FrangipaniBlue Wow. Just Wow. That crap is a public Twitter complaint if I ever saw one!

I secretly think that Laura didn't program Alexa at all, but the bloke did instead, to pretend he was doing a good job.

:)

DH hates the advert as it’s insulting. “Why don’t you KNOW where the teething ring is you useless git”

I mostly get annoyed at the play date being arranged for a kid who’s still young enough to think its own reflection is another baby.

We have an Alexa and I have yet to do this but I bloody need to!
My DH forgets what I've said as soon as I was left the house! He'll text me when he's in Sainsbury's asking if I need anything, I'll reply straight away and he'll still come home without it!!! 🙄😂

I know @Cindersdonegood !!

One of the few times in my life I've genuinely been a bit speechless.

I think she got the message from my body language and tone but I genuinely think she thought I was the one being ridiculous

Its similar in tone to the awful Peter and Jane fb page, where daddy is belittled constantly. Its time these attitudes became unacceptable in the same way as it would be if it were aimed at a woman.