On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:01:57 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:

wrote in message
I'd not call a
"sexist" marketing scheme for _toys_ demeaning, I'd call it stupid -
what do kids really know or care about sexism? Are you sure it was
"sexist?"

FWIW, the product was Hasbro's "Rose Petal Cottage". The TV ad that set me
off was within typical norms of little girls playing with dolls & doll
houses; but the voiceover of "inspiring your imagination" while showing a
little girl putting landry into a washing machine was way past acceptable
for me.

MY GOD!! Little kids playing house and doing laundry! The exploitive
*******s! So, I'm curious...do you and your family simply throw away
that day's clothes, have the servants do it, send it out, or ??? Me
personally, I have a staff of course, but don't you common people have
to do menial things like that? I mean, I was in a grocery once (hey, I
needed ice for cocktails, and the machine in the Roller was on the
blink...) and I saw all sorts of that stuff the help puts in that thing
with the window, so I figure at least SOME of you folks do it...laundry,
not landry...although if it were Ali, I'd be game to give her, er, it a
go...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, you're calling the Maytag repairma...er,
repairperson,
R
....I mean, they didn't show 'em ridin' the dryer or anything, right?