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Originally posted by MrTim MrTim wrote:

Why is it pink and the front looks like a pig snout?


Didn't notice the pig resemblance, but you're right, it does look like a pig snout.

God only knows what message they could be trying to convey with that...

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Reconfigure Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 4:29pm
My brother-in-law is black, and I could actually see him pulling something like this off.

All of the other contestants having crappy cars though, I don't know. They'd probably be really nice racers, and they'd try to run her off the road with them.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tiz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 10:12pm
^^^ That'll be cheatin'. Now if something got "accidentally" jammed into her tire spokes......
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Donathan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 11:39pm
I'll admit, I loved it in The Little Rascals when the "Boy," who just won the race took off "his" helmet, and it was Darla, a girl, who beat all the boys in a race! I cheered!
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Originally posted by Donathan Donathan wrote:

I'll admit, I loved it in The Little Rascals when the "Boy," who just won the race took off "his" helmet, and it was Darla, a girl, who beat all the boys in a race! I cheered!

Bet you got all misty eyed, too. Ermm


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Over the top and I hate the xylophone in the middle but this commercial pales in comparison to the blatant hipster, flaming BS Android wear commercial.
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Why, in every "girl/female empowerment" commercial/movie/etc., does the girl automatically have to be better than the boys once she sneaks or is allowed in? Why did they include the snarky bit about the guys peeking in to cheat from her?

And why do they have to follow up with all the other female stereotypes, like why does she have to have a super-pink car with a sidecar for her Barbie?

What's so wrong with having her entering a derby like normal, building a normal car, and actively competing (not necessarily totally outshining) with the boys?
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^  You're obviously a sexist.


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Originally posted by Snesgamer Snesgamer wrote:

Why, in every "girl/female empowerment" commercial/movie/etc., does the girl automatically have to be better than the boys once she sneaks or is allowed in? Why did they include the snarky bit about the guys peeking in to cheat from her? 

And why do they have to follow up with all the other female stereotypes, like why does she have to have a super-pink car with a sidecar for her Barbie? 

What's so wrong with having her entering a derby like normal, building a normal car, and actively competing (not necessarily totally outshining) with the boys?

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Originally posted by Snesgamer Snesgamer wrote:

Why, in every "girl/female empowerment" commercial/movie/etc., does the girl automatically have to be better than the boys once she sneaks or is allowed in? Why did they include the snarky bit about the guys peeking in to cheat from her?

And why do they have to follow up with all the other female stereotypes, like why does she have to have a super-pink car with a sidecar for her Barbie?

What's so wrong with having her entering a derby like normal, building a normal car, and actively competing (not necessarily totally outshining) with the boys?




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Originally posted by Snesgamer Snesgamer wrote:

Why, in every "girl/female empowerment" commercial/movie/etc., does the girl automatically have to be better than the boys once she sneaks or is allowed in? Why did they include the snarky bit about the guys peeking in to cheat from her?

And why do they have to follow up with all the other female stereotypes, like why does she have to have a super-pink car with a sidecar for her Barbie?

What's so wrong with having her entering a derby like normal, building a normal car, and actively competing (not necessarily totally outshining) with the boys?


Spot on!! Of course you know that would be TRUE "equal rights". Unfortunately, alot of people (and politicians) who SAY they want equal rights don't want that at all. They want to exalt the female, and run the male into the ground (and use media and commercials to brainwash us into accepting it).

I'm guessing in real life that most boys would actually build a better car than most girls. Not to say that there aren't some girls out there who could do really well....

Commercials just love to run down boys/men any possible chance they can. And conversely, make the women look brilliant.
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Originally posted by Snesgamer Snesgamer wrote:

Why, in every "girl/female empowerment" commercial/movie/etc., does the girl automatically have to be better than the boys once she sneaks or is allowed in? Why did they include the snarky bit about the guys peeking in to cheat from her?

And why do they have to follow up with all the other female stereotypes, like why does she have to have a super-pink car with a sidecar for her Barbie?

What's so wrong with having her entering a derby like normal, building a normal car, and actively competing (not necessarily totally outshining) with the boys?

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:


^  You're obviously a sexist.


Obviously I am too, for pointing out that a man built the car. And for the fact that I can/do look past the smoke-and-mirrors attempt to empower the little girl. Yeah, you have the prettiest car, but sweeping up sawdust and picking up wood scraps is only just enough help to be able to say you helped. I'm sure once we let them little racers go, The Pink Jitterbug will end up going down first and fastest, but we don't actually get to see that. So for my money, little girl, you haven't accomplished anything. Daddy built you a nice car. 

What's the lesson I take away from all this? You need something done right, go get a man to do it.. which makes this commercial a fail for me.
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Not to make excuses for the crappy commercial that I started the thread to bash & ridicule to begin with, but I think what these "empowerment" type ads (females, blacks) are actually attempting to do, is to kind of "root for the underdog", so to speak, which has always been a popular thing to do in our culture.

There is the sense, and it's not totally unfounded, that blacks & women have traditionally in the past, been seen as second class citizens in many areas of American society.

Certainly men & boys dominate in fields like engineering, auto racing, mechanics, construction, etc, etc. And of blacks have lagged behind whites in just about everything outside of pro sports & the music business. In decades past, that wasn't through any fault of their own either.

So I don't think these ads are trying to put white men down or make us look like losers for the benefit of women & blacks, so much as (they think) they're righting some past wrongs & leveling the playing field a bit.

But that doesn't make them any less smarmy & annoying either.



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