Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Slightly Dumber than a Dog

So Catherine Zeta-Jones is back in new T-Mobile ads, but I can't derive even the dubious enjoyment from them that I did before, because they perpetuate the suddenly prevalent cliche of the stupid husband. As Sarah Haskins pointed out in a Target:Women episode dedicated to the subject, women apparently "do it all without a shred of help from those lumbering man-beast known as 'husbands'". Indeed, according to pop culture as reimagined through the eyes of unimaginative TV spots. So for the crime of furthering an unrealistic, unfunny stereotype, I'm going to label this a T-Mobile fail.

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