Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Youthful voyeurism is so adorable.

I don't understand why so many commercials promote people with low or nonexistent morals as comedy. In a recent commercial for Allstate, a man is boasting about the tree house he built for his kids. He tells the neighbor that the kids love it so much, they spend all their time there. The neighbor points out that is because they can spy on the next door neighbor. We then see the young boys with binoculars obviously watching the woman next door in a state of undress. This is funny? The guys kids are peeping toms. Sorry, but that's very close to sexual perversion. Even if it weren't, these kids have no respect for anyone else's privacy. I don't find that funny and I won't accept that I am being prudish. I also can't draw the connection to Allstate Insurance. More and more there's a sad trend in advertising. It is that major companies like Allstate allow creative teams without taste or style to not only create juvenile commercials featuring characters of low or no character,  but actually spend millions to produce and run them.

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