Comments on: Sexualized Svedka fembot, go away!

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:24:58 +0000

I have to admit this commercial and ad are disturbing and I wouldn’t want my teenage son or daughter watching this. There are too many subliminal messages here that are anything but positive. I like to watch TV with my kids so usually I’m aware of what they see. We love to watch prime time TV together. I was excited when my coworker at Dish suggested I upgrade to the Hopper system. It automatically records prime time programming, with the Prime Time Anytime feature, and then when we play back the programming we can completely block out commercials altogether. It helps a ton with commercials like this one!

By: Grackle

Grackle — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:21:04 +0000

Interesting that your name includes the word “point”, considering that you completely missed it.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:59:25 +0000

They are not objectifying an object, they are telling their audience that women would be better without any of the parts you don’t like. Better if they were controllable, predictable, not real.
Also, people are not complaining that the one woman in the add is being exploited for what she is payed to do, they are complaining about the sexualization and objectification of women everywhere. This causes many (consciously or unconsciously) to see women as object who are meant for little more than your own gratification. Not only does this hurt the view of women by others, this hurts the way women and girls view themselves. I am not saying that no women is the world is happy, but these advertisements largely contribute to the growing rates of eating disorders, teen suicides, and rape.
So no, there is no one woman being ‘objectified’ in this commercial, just the view of women and girls everywhere.

Plus, what’s so stylish about a bald robot with a waist you could fit one hand around dancing for men with cameras?

By: Xavier Cecil

Xavier Cecil — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:08:38 +0000

But if they had used a good-looking, real woman in an otherwise identical commercial, you’d trot out the old canard about how the woman was being ‘exploited’ simply because of her own, totally voluntary career choice. Here, no living woman is being ‘objectified’, because a robot really is an object.

Plus, it’s stylish.

By: JPoint

JPoint — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:52:31 +0000

Good argument for the burka and for criminalizing makeup, breast implants, short skirts, low cut shirts, high heels, bikinis, Miss America, womens fitness and the penis. How dare the world view women as sexy…
But you should always tell your daughters that they are princesses too…