Entry #7- Dumb Men?

Dumb Men Stereotypes

After watching more than a handful of the videos linked on the Dumb Men website, I feel offended for men, even as a woman myself. Sure, some of the videos are funny, but many of them are also insulting to the intelligence of men. They are portrayed as dumb, incompetent, and inferior to women. I strongly believe in equality of all humans, and I don't like when any one person is portrayed as being less than another. 

The couple of the videos on this site that portrayed such instances were Fidelity Male Bashing, Stupid Men Can't Figure Out Home Improvement Projects: Lowe's, and the Stupid Dad Grilling Commercial. 

Just in the titles of these videos, one can already tell they have the potential to be insulting to men, which I saw as true after watching them. Fidelity Male Bashing portrayed men as incapable of thinking or doing even the simplest of things by themselves, Stupid Men Can't Figure Out Home Improvement Projects: Lowe's made men seem incompetent to take care of their homes without Lowe's helping them, and Stupid Dad Grilling Commercial makes it look like his family hates him because he can't cook even a simple meal for them. 

Commercials can portray an image and sell the product of whatever company they are advertising for without insulting the intelligence of people. Fidelity could've showed their employees helping families sign up for their product instead of making men look dumb. Lowe's could've showed men successfully using their products as a way to sell their merchandise without making men look dumb without it. In Stupid Dad Grilling, Papa Murphey's could've advertised their hamburger pizza by showing people enjoying eating it rather than showing a man failing at simple grilling. 

I think these videos are seriously lacking in credibility due to the fact that they are insulting to men. The goal of selling products can be achieved without insulting the intelligence of anybody, which is why these commercials lost my respect. By making a joke of the intelligence of men, I lost all attention to these advertisements which in turn could've lost a potential customer.