Sprint Depicts Dad/Husband as Hamster in a Wheel!

For decades, fathers and husbands have been depicted on TV programs and in ads as fools, incompetents, abusers and jerks. Sprint goes one better in its series of commercials about The Frobinson Family. Dad/Husband is depicted as a hamster trapped inside a plastic ball.

What does the hamster do in its role as family pet? He spins pointlessly in his little wheel for the amusement of his owner.

The entire Frobisher family is white, but grandpa is black. Dad/Husband is denied even his pride in passing on his own lineage!

These commercials reek with hatred and ridicule of men. Men are ridiculous, non-human, and they exist only for the purpose of paying the bills. Dad/Husband is just a dumb pet to be ignored by people with more important lives.

Godawful. Or, perhaps, this is really what we men have become.

I'm no political activist. I'm just an Old Dawg trying to get along and enjoy the years I have left.

I won't draw any conclusions for you. You can come to your own.

Comments

[Tank]

Saw you over at Alpha Game. Surprised to see you just found out about it. Vox's regular site is quite interesting too.

[Howlin' Steve]

I find those sites interesting, although I have no interest in playing the "game."

I have a great relationship with my Filipina girlfriend. That puts me in a different universe.

Years ago, I was editor of one of the first men's rights newsletters. That fell apart because the readers and members of the group were outraged over my successful marriage to Myrna.

At one of those men's groups meetings, Myrna astonished the gathering by saying: "Why don't you just dump all this crap and do things the way your fathers and grandfathers did?"

Myrna always got directly to the point.

[Tank]

I find those sites interesting, although I have no interest in playing the "game."
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Me too. Lucky to be going on 35 years with Mrs. Tank. I really got lucky. It wasn't my looks or my game.