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!
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!
@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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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?
@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.
@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.
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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@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)
@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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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."
@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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"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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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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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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Pick a stance, Clorox!#%@!!!
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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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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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If you're their natural daughter or granddaughter, then I'm certain they did a man or two.
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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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Eddie Vedder: awwww---eeeeyooo, alfhsdjsdgjsdkg-clorox-akla-urrrggggah!
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Fact: the dryer actually spins *around* the laundry! --Galileo
There is no laundry --Neo
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"Sir, you we're asked about laundry..."
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