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deitybox
12/02/09

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I was wondering if you guys were going to post on this eventually. And to have it shown during Mad Men, even more infuriating! Peggy Olsen would not stand for this shit!
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MyNameIsChris
12/02/09

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It's bad enough that women keep cheating on their mops with Swiffers... now they're spending all their time on laundry too?!?!
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randomnessish
12/02/09

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I've been screaming at this commercial ever since it interrupted Mad Men. It's schlocky and sexist and infuriating and I want to punch it in the face.

"As a woman, you, like your foremothers before you, will be doing the laundry because you're a woman and have nothing better to do and also because it's like in your genetic makeup or something. I mean, maybe even a man or two might do it, but we have to say that because it's 2009 and we have all these gayass pansy men now who are forced to do the laundry by their bitchy bitch bitch wives but it's okay because they're men and they'll just fuck it all up AMIRITE LADIES?"

Also it's a pretty lame commercial: fuck if I care Clorox is old, I want to see some side by side comparisons with the leading competitors!
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meritxell: an erotic life
12/02/09

@randomnessish: Do they even GET the irony of airing it during Mad Men? Are they secretly being subversive or something? That's the only explanation I can deal with without having my head explode.

Seriously, NOBODY LIKES DOING THE LAUNDRY. REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENITALIA. STOP TRYING TO MAKE A FUCKING HOUSEHOLD CHORE INTO SOME SISTERHOOD THING.
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Eric Northman is mine
12/02/09

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OMG, clearly i'm on this site too much. Anytime I saw this ad, I wondered when it would be posted on Jezebel. It's not just Clorox though most cleaning ads mostly feature women cleaning or manaically and enthusiastically yammering about cleaning and taking care of the household with the guy always playing the confused/onlooker role

The ad that annoys me most though is the Bounty ad where the son spills some orange soda on the counter and the son and dad both stare as the spill as though they're confused till the mom swoops with with the paper towel and cleans up. Really? If using a paer towel is too advanced you've failed at life.
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Bunsen Honeydew
12/02/09

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What I want to know is, who's out there getting involved with these guys who can't even tie their own shoe? My dad always did laundry, and never expected an award for it. I have had two boyfriends who were the same way. It's not that hard?
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
12/02/09

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They have another ad that plays on the Mad Men dvds that is even worse, imo. It shows a white men's shirt with a lip stick stain and says "Getting ad men out of hot water for the last 50 years" or something. They're obviously playing off Don's affairs on the show, but still...gross.
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Schrodinger's Cat
12/02/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Well that ad implies that the man is pre-treating his own stains..!

Pick a stance, Clorox!#%@!!!
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Flackette Goes Retro
12/02/09

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My brother and I were not allowed to leave home without a full knowledge of laundry. Both my mom and dad do laundry (although my dad isn't great at folding, but whatever - it gets clean). Please to be noting that I grew up with a SAHM, and my brother is the dudeliest of dudes, so it's not like we're a super progressive family. It just never occurred to either of us that we would be able to have clean clothes as adults without learning how to wash 'em. Many things are gendered in my parents' belief system, but laundry just ain't one of 'em.
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m.e. stijl
12/02/09

@Flackette Goes Retro: That's kind of awesome. I grew up with a SAHM too (took me a few secs to figure that one out. Doh). Actually, she just finished ironing my dad's shirt for tomorrow. I do my own laundry, but she does everyone else's (dad, two brothers). She always cooks and cleans. She recently had back surgery, and while she was still using a walker, my dad would request tylenol or a glass of water or to get his laptop from the other room. I know he busts his ass to pay for shit, but really. Some things are done just out of humanity.
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Flackette Goes Retro
12/03/09

@emistijl: Ooh, that would make me mad. My parents are pretty equitable as far as who gets a drink for the other one, etc. They both load the dishwasher and stuff like that. My dad says that he grew up watching his mom wait on his dad, and always hated it, so he didn't want to be like that. It probably helps that he was in the military for a while, so he knows how to iron and fold clothes nicely.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
12/02/09

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Haha oh Clorox! Everyone knows men can't do housework! Unless they're gay, anyway. Gay men can do anything, because they are gay and therefore asexual and FABULOUSSSS. Straight men, however, are only good for fixing cars, lifting heavy objects, breeding children, and fucking everything up. We can only shake our heads, smile, and then completely clean up after them as though they were nothing but dumb puppies suffering from massive head trauma.
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Gonkette
12/02/09

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I'm having trouble getting offended about this
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BuffySummers
12/02/09

@Gonkette: I don't know if it's necessarily offensive (too cliche/obvious to be truly offensive) but I do find it kind of annoying. Why not at least show some of the progress we've made in gender roles by starting to show men doing the laundry as well around mid-century?
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Keyper81
12/02/09

@Gonkette: I'm with you. I know it's a joke about a stereotype but it doesn't seem mean-spirited to me.
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Gonkette
12/02/09

@BuffySummers: Because not every advertisement for bleach needs to be a statement about gender roles?
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BuffySummers
12/02/09

@Gonkette: Right, but if they do choose to make a statement about gender roles (which they did, intentional or not)I'd prefer they make it a progressive one.
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SarahMC
12/02/09

@Gonkette: Clorox is the one that made the commercial a statement about gender roles.
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Gonkette
12/03/09

@BuffySummers: @SarahMC: Very true. Now I am properly offended. Thanks gals!
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NotChoinski
12/02/09

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The 2006 Tsunami? Me, doing laundry. My bad.
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ucelluccia
12/02/09

@NotChoinski: Way to effing ruin it for everybody. Gah.
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NotChoinski
12/02/09

@ucelluccia: I've learned that if you screw up something bad enough, you never have to do it again. Just ask my husband about staying home for a haircut.
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curiousgeorgiana
12/02/09

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My mom saw this ad for the first time and snickered at the "Maybe even a man or two" and said to me, "Good luck finding a guy that will do laundry after you're married!".

My dad was standing right behind her with a basket of laundry, on his way to the laundry room. I laughed my ass off.
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serreca
12/02/09

@curiousgeorgiana: Ha!

My husband of 2.5 years does about 85% of the laundry in our house. Even my underwears. He is awesome.
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ucelluccia
12/02/09

@serreca: Same. Mostly because I apparently fold shirts the wrong way (?), so he ended up re-folding everything anyway. I loooove it.
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ucelluccia
12/02/09

@ucelluccia: Oh, and I can't iron. There's that, too.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
12/02/09

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Dude, laundry is not hard, complicated, or intense in any way. Stick it in, push the button and it goes, just like sex!

/sarcasm
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whats_in_a_name
12/02/09

@battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch: and just like sex, it's the button pushing that messes up most men, either they can't find it, or if they find it they can't manage to push it in the right sequence (or so i've heard)
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Dodgergirl
12/02/09

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"They all did the laundry....maybe even a man or two."

If you're their natural daughter or granddaughter, then I'm certain they did a man or two.
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CurtCole
12/02/09

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Historical Figures Solve the Problem:

Marie Antoinette: "Let them send it out to be done."

Karl Marx: "How about an egalitarian approach, distribute the laundry equally."

Guy Fawkes: "Blow it up."
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femme-bot
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Jack Kerouac: "Fuck laundry"
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PaigeTurner
12/02/09

@CurtCole: GWB probably pronounces it laurnedry.
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berlitzfrench
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Descartes: It thinks, therefore it does itself.
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CurtCole
12/02/09

@PaigeTurner: G. W. Bush: "I'm waiting for God to tell me how to do it."
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Tchotchke
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Bill Clinton: I did not do laundry for that woman.

Eddie Vedder: awwww---eeeeyooo, alfhsdjsdgjsdkg-clorox-akla-urrrggggah!
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Schrodinger's Cat
12/02/09

@CurtCole: I do laundry, therefore I am [a woman]. --Descartes

Fact: the dryer actually spins *around* the laundry! --Galileo

There is no laundry --Neo
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whats_in_a_name
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Sarah Palin: Hmm, I wonder if I could hunt it from a helicopter.
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CurtCole
12/02/09

@Schrodinger's Cat: Jessie Helms: "I eat bugs."
"Sir, you we're asked about laundry..."
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berlitzfrench
12/02/09

@Tchotchke: Darned if I didn't hear Bill's voice in my head as I read your post.
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Tchotchke
12/02/09

@CurtCole: HA! Perfect.
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JohanPaladin
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Sarah Palin: "I can see laundry from my house, also."
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whats_in_a_name
12/02/09

@Schrodinger's Cat: Schrodinger: "If I put the laundry in the machine, close the lid and then leave the room the laundry is both clean and dirty at the same time."
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molo_lola
12/02/09

@CurtCole:
Lincoln: "If doing all the laundry would preserve the Union, I would do it. If only washing the towels would preserve the union, I would do it. If acting incompetent and never doing any laundry, ever, would preserve the union, I would do it."
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curiousgeorgiana
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Winston Churchill: "We shall wash on the seas and oceans; We shall wash on the beaches; We shall wash in the hills. We shall never surrender!
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife to do his washing.
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whats_in_a_name
12/02/09

@CurtCole: Ancient Proverb: If at first you don't succeed whine until your wife does it for you.
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funzette
12/02/09

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Laundry?! They should call it Laugyny!!
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