<![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @CristinaS: i agree, the truly sad thing about this commercial is that it might deter people from buying a roomba. i have had one for 2 years, and without it, i would loose my will to live. 3 cats, no hair on the carpet. ha!

lieschenmueller

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> I have a Roomba AND that couch - that ad makes me nauseous. I'd like to go all Chief Home Officer on that dude's ass if he made that comment to me, or implied in any way (other than the couch or my beloved Roomba, because that thing rocks) that my life resembled that poor lady.

CristinaS

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Wench looks like she's on drugs.

plasticene

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @Pope John Peeps II: You're right about the hand sanitzer.

And I sort of lied. I buy the cleaning products and toss the old sponges, but my boyfriend is the one who scrubs the shower after I've neglected it for a couple of weeks. Why is this ok? Because it takes me an hour to clean it whereas it takes him a mere 15 minutes. I admit it, I am the weaker sex.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @mark duffy: Believe it or not, out in the unironic hinterlands (i.e. anywhere besides supercynical urban areas), average men and women find this sort of bland humor very enjoyable. I'm always amazed when my parents, their friends, and the parents of my friends chuckle at what my friends I find really stupid and lame. They're amused by the derivative gags they find in the typical commercials for beer, Glad bags, mouthwash and the like. Although you, me and everyone we know have no patience for stupid humor, and we know that we're right, that doesn't mean that what works for the majority of people should no longer be employed.

MindGrapes

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @MisterHippity: Car wax/cleaning shit. Because the garage is a man's domain.

Hops

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @MindGrapes: And of course the only way to speak to Moms is to condescendingly call them "Chief Home Officers." You can target Moms without being sexist...it just takes a little creative thinking on the part of the ad agency...which, after examining the uncreative work at The Gate's Web site, would require another ad agency.

mark duffy

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> All those douche and tampon ads are so totally targeted at women -- they don't even hide it!

NYCF

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @MisterHippity: Yeah, I'm failing to see how this is any more sexist than 98% of commercials that come on during daytime TV. You know what? I'm an at home mom, aka "housewife"...and please don't assume that I'm uneducated and/or conservative; don't just assume that I spend all my time cooking, cleaning, and chauffering my kid around. I do have a *little* spare time, much of which I spend posting here. Oh GOD I'm pathetic....but I digress). I can't get too upset over this ad. My daughter can be a bit of a pig, and my husband definitely has jack-ass tendencies. And I freaking LOVE my Roomba! (More time for the Internet, right? I'm crying now.) So I guess I'm the targeted demographic, maybe that's why I'm not offended. Of course it could be that there is so much more important stuff to get upset about out there, and after all that laundry, I don't have the energy to spend my outrage willy-nilly.

rose0red

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Sexist? Yes.

Speciesist? For sure. How insulting to donkeys and pigs everywhere!

eXXX

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> I'd take this sexist crap over this: [www.youtube.com]

LittleLolly

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> the commercial that pisses me off lately is for tonka trucks and how "boys play differently"

um, almost every straight guy i know had a cabbage patch doll growing up. and most gay guys i know played with toy trucks. for reals.

ellagood

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Come on, people - aren't ANY of you in marketing? You speak to the people who use your product and to those most likely to want to use your product. Fact-o-the-matter is that most moms do the housework, and they probably do think their husbands are asses and their kids are pigs. It's no different than marketing sports cars to men - women drive, too, but a company has to know to whom they'll get the biggest results. Jeez.

MindGrapes

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @josh speed: That's totally the shit. Everyone should be dirty. Except for genitals which should be scrupulously clean. That way everyone's hot and sexy and no one gets colds from kissing at parties because everyone's immune.

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> So yeah, that's sexist. But what's most disturbing is the implication that she fucked a donkey and gave birth to pigs. I saw that shit online once, and I think it would take more than an dirt-sucking vacuum to make me okay with that.

mindbling

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @Pope John Peeps II: I never clean my house, and I haven't had a cold or flu in 9 years!

josh speed

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @MisterHippity: It was the "Chief Home Officer" crack by the stupid male creative director. That's pretty damn demeaning.

mark duffy

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @shuffler: Well, men throw things away when they start to stink. That's the man rule. It applies equally to peasants and popes.

But on the other hand, men aren't total pussies about germs. I love the ladies wandering around with costco-sized kegs of hand sanitizer, slathering their babies in alcoholic goo so that their immune systems are pathetic and weak and their children frail like Dickensian orphans.

My kids are going to have to spend one night a week catching and eating their dinner outside.

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @mipsy6:

All cleaning products are marketed to women...it is assumed that men don't clean, or if they do, they are so ashamed of themselves for doing girly things they won't buy something marketed directly to them.
That freaking play house -- housefrau slavery for your toddler! -- is a backlash toy, pure and simple. We're all out of the house now, and some asshole is trying to convince the next generation to go back in -- it's fun!

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @mipsy6: Next up: a fischer price boys version with recliner, fridge and tv - complete with fake beers cans and a remote.

Queen of the Passive Aggressives

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> I guess what offends me most about this ad is, why couldn't she be buggered to at least put on a little mascara? Laziest housewife ever.

SylviaPlathWasFramed

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @MisterHippity: If a man is left to himself, he will wash dishes with the same rag (or sponge, even worse) until it grows mold or disentegrates. That is why.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> As far as I can tell, all television commericals for any cleaning-related products are still explicitly directed to women. This has always struck me as sexist, but nobody else seems to notice or comment on it.

So I don't understand why Copyranter is singling out iRobot here. Please, someone, show me just one commercial for a product that cleans anythign that's directed to a man instead of a woman. Just one.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> My cat rides our Roomba like it's his personal hovercraft. It's the Scooba that scares the crap out of him.

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> What's with all the weird sexist housewife commercials lately? First that crazy play cottage from Fischer Price and now this?

I really want a Roomba, too. I heard it's awesome for taking care of pet hair on wood floors. Damn those ad men for ruining my hopes for fur-free floors.

mipsy6

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> If they made a commercial consisting solely of people using the roomba to scare their cats, then and only then, would I consider buying one.

Spaceman Bill Leah needs a full-length puffy coat

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> They have to go for the housefrau who feels the family is a bunch of animals. No husband is going to order up an iRobot for his wife and live to tell the tale.

Queen of the Passive Aggressives

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Wow - I bet he's hung like a horse!

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> If she's just give her little piggies some condoms, they'd turn into humans. See what we can learn by paying attention to ads?

ascot-revival

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Oops, this was written by Copyranter. I get confused sumtimes.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> @Steverino: Helloo!! Gayfemiladyism!

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> I'm most offended by the fact that she appears to be fucking the donkey instead of the pigs.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Oh Emily, it's not sexist just becau--wait, Choire?!

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[New Roomba Ad: Stupid Or Stupid Sexist?]]> Well my bloomers are in a bunch.

Itsjustcatnip

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