The Times- Ads are filled with bodily functions for our incontinent culture
The difference is that in previous times the advertisers recognised that while their products might be needed, it was for personal, private reasons which did not need to be shared in public. Attending the lavatory was not something to be ashamed of, but neither was it something we all wished to signal loudly to whoever might be present, as if it were an achievement. Still less having gonads whose scent could stun a stoat at fifty paces, or being unable to keep your wee inside you for five minutes. None of this needed explaining.
I just luv those adult diaper commercials at dinner time, where a bunch of geriatric overweight wahmyn are hitting the town…
My favorite is when they apply, what I used to think was underarm deodorant, to their fat roles.
Yup – those are disgusting as well.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TCkTOKiPAU0?si=SVmAXusUJU5haQNH
The “whole body deodorant” and “regular people” trends are nasty. I don’t want to think about six square meters of stanky stretch marks.
The downhill slide started with all the ads for what we used to politely refer to as “feminine hygeine products”.
They went into too many details for my comfort.
Really irritating when I am in the presence of my teen grandsons.
This.
And I’m a woman. Been saying for years that those sort of commercials were not necessary.
Insanity.
People here are unwitting participants in “The Politics of Disgust:”
https://archive.md/LzxOA [New Republic]
I like a British take on this. When tampon commericals first came out, with their usual life-affirming ambience,
one Independent reader wrote to complain about the ads;
“I’ve been eating these tampon things for three months and I still can’t rollerskate”
Reading these comments makes me happy that I killed my TV 30 years ago.
I feel absolutely Victorian about “unmentionable” aspects of the human condition.
Call me the prude, see if I care.
I sure miss civil norms.
…and yet people got their panties in a bunch over tobacco and gun advertising.
The Anglosphere = FUBAR.
Meh,when my wife has the TV on,I hear the adds..What are they selling?
I even made a point of watching a couple,still have no idea what they were selling.
The running of vile adds at supper time,was based on the idea the customer would be captive to the TV as they eat..
Not turning the ghastly thing off.