To ask if some adverts are encouraging or normalizing selfish behaviour

[Witchofzog]

I have just seen the Pelaton one which says " Don't let an early start stop you from showing up" with a woman exercising on a spin bike at dawn with her partner still in bed. I am sure he wants to hear her panting, the bike whirring and the tinny Pelaton Instructors voice at 5.30am.

And don't get me started on the Alexa ones with the girl kicking a football against the garage at 4am whilst her mother puts the security lights on and smiles indulgently. And the one I haven't seen but have read about on here where a woman comes home late at night and plays loud music through her Alexa.

Why is selfish behaviour like this advertised as a good thing? I am genuinely baffled

I've seen the alexa one but hadn't spotted it was 4am, I assumed it was on evening and it had gotten dark.

The others I haven't seen but agree that showing someone exercising early in the same room as someone sleeping is showing selfish behaviour.

I sooooo hate ads and both my children are trained to either mute or fastforward them (preferably both). Adverts by decree are about creating a sense of a need in us as conusmers, they are not about stepping back and thinking about other people's feelings. The feelings of others do not generate profit. More than anything though they are about selling us lies and the bigger the lie the greater the impact and the more it will creep into your subconscious unawares, no matter how much you think it hasn't.

Yes. The daughter comes home in a strop for not winning a match and the mum wakes at 4am to the banging of the football against the garage door. If that was me I would be shouting at her to get to bed immediately before she wakes the whole neighbourhood, rather than smiling indulgently

We have no regular TV specifically because ads are so terrible. YANBU at all.

DH and I both shouted at our tv when that mother said “Alexa put the garden lights on”, at 4am, because my teen kicking a ball might not be loud enough to totally wake my neighbours! Selfish cow.
I bet she’d be on mumsnet the next day moaning about her neighbours sticking a pas-ag note through her door too.

I dislike ads too but it's in the last year that I have really noticed the selfish bugger everyone else mentality in them. Is this reflective of general society now I wonder

Ha we said the same about the Alexa football one. It's absurd. I tell the girls not to kick the ball against the garage in our garden because of the neighbors - in the middle of the day for god's sake

There was a car ad (I think) a year or two ago that showed a driver "putting others first" by allowing them into the queue. Fine, but what about the dozens of people behind her that she definitely wasn't putting first? Didn't ask whether they were happy to be held up further. If she'd allowed the other driver out, then pulled over to let the queue pass her, that would be putting others first. Selfish cunt.