KFC ad

[Paul O'Brien]

Is the KFC ad 'at least someone knows how to treat you' or something like that annoying other people like it does me?

A woman gets beaten to the bathroom by a guy (Big deal. What about the other days when you get in there first?)
He uses the last of the milk. (Someone had to)
A man refuses to get up for a pregnant woman. (Why doesn't the woman offer her seat? For all she knows he could be unwell.)
She carries a heavy water cooler while guys chat in the background. (No, don't bother to ask for help)
A man closes a door on her (Maybe didn't notice her)

To me, it's offensive to men, portraying them as thoughtless, discourteous prats.
It's also offensive to women, suggesting that the last 50 years of equality was a wasted struggle.

Any one else got any thoughts about it?

[detours]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaX-AF0-Fpw

Yeh, agreed the girl in the advert is pretty fit. I could totally go for a zinger burger right now.

But in all seriousness, you are one of the first people to bring up the 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!' cliché usually, do you not see the irony here?

[GP200]

...........yep............bargain..............buc ket.............

[Houghton Bee]

she can go on my tower burger anytime

i'll even let her suck on my straw

[GP200]

..............popcorn............

[steve.bees89]

Gimme that thigh n breast.

Not the chicken.





Actually chicken too

[Paul O'Brien]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaX-AF0-Fpw


But in all seriousness, you are one of the first people to bring up the 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!' cliché usually, do you not see the irony here?

Hm. Interesting. I always though that I was more in the world gone mad camp not the PC gone mad one. (Don't see the irony here in that case...) I tend to believe that people have the right to live a peaceful life and be free from irritation, certainly, and PC gone mad is one of the irritants. But why is the ad suggesting that it's guys that cause the aggro?

In my experience when I took my baby son out in his pusher, it was usually guys who would hold doors open and help; women were more likely to apparently think 'Oh, he's a guy, he can cope' and let doors go in my face or - worse - squeeze past as I was opening the door.

I may be biased - around 3 years ago, I was on the bus (I was 53 at the time) and the woman next to me aged around 40 said 'There;s a pregnant woman over there'. I looked round, and there was a young woman who was possibly pregnant, but since she was partly hidden by a coat, she could also have been fat. There were also around half a dozen young girls, a few youngish women and about 5 spare seats.

I said 'Oh' and carried on reading. The woman next to me said 'Arene't you going to offer her your seat? I said 'No. I've a bad leg; there are other people and other seats, but would you like me to move my legs over so that you can?'. She offered her seat to the woman, who turned it down. As we got off the bus in Richmond, she turned to me and said 'That's disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.'

Now, apart from being around 20 years older than her, what she didn't know (and didn't bother to find out) was that I'd had a run of ill health which had resulted in the following:

Diabetes
Bells Palsy which I'd just got over
A haematoma in my right leg
High blood pressure
A torn cartilage in both knees
High blood pressure
A recently lasered 'horn' on my right ear
Sciatica
Gout (which wasn't a problem that day)
Cataracts in both eyes (which were treated over the following year)

Plus I had spent all night awake with my ill son. So I was damned if I was going to move. It's like the stories of the white feathers that people gave to men who weren't soldiers without realising that the man had lost a leg in the trenches.

I've never forgotten her and would like to get her alone in a room with a rabid tiger carrying a chain saw.

[Carri Bee Un]

Paul, that woman was wrong and ignorant, not sure why you'd bother carrying that around with you People are pretty crap in my experience. Doing the right thing everytime is it's own reward :highhorse:

Adverts piss me off too for their crass stupidity. I am however never likely to use them as a significant barometer of the current state of lady on man equality. Preferring things like representation at the highest levels of the government and corporates etc, economic equality, current employment law/social policies and on most of these bases, no worries Paul we are still shitting all over them

[2826 claire]

Wohhh, Paul. I find it offensive as a female. Yes the man ALWAYS puts the empty carton back in the fridge but it's because they can't be arsed with the nagging about recycling v rubbish. Only someone out to prove a point will carry a water bottle - because there are people paid to do that so I'm guessing she's very insecure but trying to pull the delivery guy.

And let's face it, any fit bird that gives the eye to a bloke working in KFC has issues.

I thought the last advert - with what looked like a YTS lad - talking about how proud he was of his chef genius was even more degrading. But then I'm married to a Chef that actually trained how to cook.

[Les Beeavinu]

As this is about sexism and chicken, can we show this again please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97AIRy5Z5U

[2826 claire]

As this is about sexism and chicken, can we show this again please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97AIRy5Z5U

That is brilliant. I'm still chuckling. The licking of the straw was classic.

[Brentford_till_die]

Is the KFC ad 'at least someone knows how to treat you' or something like that annoying other people like it does me?

A woman gets beaten to the bathroom by a guy (Big deal. What about the other days when you get in there first?)
He uses the last of the milk. (Someone had to)
A man refuses to get up for a pregnant woman. (Why doesn't the woman offer her seat? For all she knows he could be unwell.)
She carries a heavy water cooler while guys chat in the background. (No, don't bother to ask for help)
A man closes a door on her (Maybe didn't notice her)

To me, it's offensive to men, portraying them as thoughtless, discourteous prats.
It's also offensive to women, suggesting that the last 50 years of equality was a wasted struggle.

Any one else got any thoughts about it?

I just watched the advert and I just don't get it what the thinking is behind it?! That the lady has a shit week out and about but can rely on a man in the kitchen to cook chicken better you sit down and enjoy it and ladies your welcome to come to KFC as well ?! are they spending hundreds thousands of pounds trying to attract more female customers?! shit advert

[JBN]

KFC is the food of the gods.

[Hullbee]

Unless they have a baby on board sign or are clearly old I never move from my seat that I had battled so hard to get. The baby on board badge means you are looking for people to assist without it you are simply an independent woman seeking to prove her worth. Why I do not know but they have a chip on there shoulder

[Simon T]

If ever I turn bulimic I'm only going to eat KFC. That way, after I've finished eating I've got a bucket to vomit into afterwards

[Nada Bee]

Don't care

People think too much nowadays.

Thanks.

[Paul O'Brien]

Interesting female perspective...

http://dothenarwhal.wordpress.com/20...ven-harder-27/

[bexleyheat]

KFC is the food of the gods.

Yes - god, how can you eat that crap?

[bexleyheat]

Is the KFC ad 'at least someone knows how to treat you' or something like that annoying other people like it does me?

A woman gets beaten to the bathroom by a guy (Big deal. What about the other days when you get in there first?)
He uses the last of the milk. (Someone had to)
A man refuses to get up for a pregnant woman. (Why doesn't the woman offer her seat? For all she knows he could be unwell.)
She carries a heavy water cooler while guys chat in the background. (No, don't bother to ask for help)
A man closes a door on her (Maybe didn't notice her)

To me, it's offensive to men, portraying them as thoughtless, discourteous prats.
It's also offensive to women, suggesting that the last 50 years of equality was a wasted struggle.

Any one else got any thoughts about it?

[bexleyheat]

Sure, I've got a thought about the ad: lighten up and have a chuckle.