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Monday, July 17, 2006

"Get Your Girl On!"

Does anyone else have a problem with the new commercial for the Hummer H3?

Basically, the commercial is trying to make the Hummer appeal to women in the same way it appeals to men. It is all based upon some mom getting snubbed and pushed around by another mom at a playground. However that's not the issue.

The commercial ends with the snubbed mom feeling all empowered and running off to make herself feel better by impulse-spending 30K on a Hummer. Still, that's not the thing that got to me.

No, it is the tag line. As the smiling woman drives off in her new H3, now feeling all happy she's ruined her family's financial future, force-fed even more gas-guzzling auto exhaust into a dying planet, and never REALLY got back at the mom who bullied her in the first place (Really, this commercial makes women look VERY stupid.) we see the slogan...

"Get Your Girl ON!"
immediately followed by,
"HUMMER, H3".

I suppose I should be glad it didn't read, "HUMMER; Get your girl on!" because that's even worse. Either way, I, a comedian and card-carrying member of the Pig/Dog/Man Club reads that and immediately thinks...

"What other way is there to get a hummer?"
or
"I always get my girl on when I want a hummer. That's her job. I can't reach."

or
"I suppose I could get someone else's girl on, but that could lead to trouble."

or
"Is this some sort of right-wing anti-gay thing? I mean, you could "get your man on" for this sort of thing, right?"

I COULD go the corporate clean route as well...
"Get my girl on my Hummer? She'll ruin the paint job!"



I know. I'm a juvenile manchild. No need to remind me. Still, is this commercial any good at all? Shouldn't women be a little upset about the whole concept? I mean, sure, they'll be mad at my interpretation of it, but...Zeesh!

1 Comments:

Blogger sue said...

Unfortunately, even as a woman my mind goes right to gutter with yours...

yes, it bothers me.

7:54 AM

 

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