Commercial Attacks
Sep 23rd, 2010 by Zheng (Kathy) Li
There are unreasonable amounts of unethical advertisements, whether on TV, on the radio, or elsewhere. Some may have obvious attacks on other companies, and others may seem appropriate but include hidden meanings.
In this one car insurance commercial, it portrays a crazy woman driving a car, including banging her head on the horn, screaming, and other nonsense. The car insurance dealer would then say “If you don’t drive like her, you shouldn’t pay the same insurance rate as her.” This emphasis on the word “her” makes me feel like he is attacking women, as if all females drive like maniacs.
In another commercial by the same company, the driver is a crazy woman as well, therefore proving that the company is being sexist towards women. This type of advertising is unethical and should be revised.
“Funny Car Accident with Crazy Woman”
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*Even though this video is not the commercial I wrote about in the article, it’s still amazing how ridiculous some commercial are to promote their car insurance.