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To think the "Oven Pride" advert is sexist and patronising

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5Foot5 · 19/03/2010 19:37

This is the advert for an oven cleaner where you put the dirty shelf in a special bag, squirt in some stuff, shake it about a bit then wash the shelf.

The strap line is "So easy that a man could do it"

They then have this dopey looking bloke cleaning the shelf while his simpering partner looks on indulgently.

I think it is an awful ad and if you imagined a product advertised the opposite way, I dunno say "a car that is so manoeuverable that a woman could park it" people would throw things at the screen.

Who do they think they are aiming this product at anyway? It will only alienate male viewers and I dread to think what motive a woman would have for buying it.

OP posts:
Maleeka · 20/03/2010 00:12

Well thats me sold then, off to Sainsburys to get me some oven pride in the morning, dont give a crap about the ad as long as the product works

Nux · 20/03/2010 00:50

I HATE this ad, it makes me want to throw things. It is totally sexist and patronising and you are so right OP, if it were reversed and "so easy a woman can do it" everyone would be rightly outraged.

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