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All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘role reversal’
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Author: Amy Goodloe
Category: Movies and TV
Tags: femininity, masculinity, role reversal
Parody commercial for men’s “Wonder Bra” equivalent
Author: Amy Goodloe
Category: Commercials
Tags: parody, role reversal, student project
Very clever project done by some students at another university:
Selling a Household Cleaning Product on Its … Sex Appeal?
Author: Amy Goodloe
Category: News & Mass Media
Tags: cleaning products, role reversal
Here’s a NY Times article on the Pine Sol commercial that features a man doing the mopping:
IN a new television commercial for Pine-Sol cleaner shot in an over-the-top film noir style, Diane Amos, who has starred in the brand’s ads for 16 years, drives a late-model convertible on the Pacific Coast Highway in California, moonlight dappling the ocean. When she reaches an opulent home, she climbs a stairway, then opens a door to reveal a shirtless, muscular man mopping the floor. Finally Ms. Amos, sprawled on a bed strewn with rose petals and bottles of Pine-Sol as the man mops beside her, purrs the slogan: “That’s the power of Pine-Sol, baby.”
Men’s underwear commerical (with woman wearing underwear)
Author: Amy Goodloe
Category: Advertising, Commercials
Tags: male behavior, role reversal
Not widely shown in the US, as you can imagine! Are men really like this?
