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Gillette For The Gentle Rapist.
#21
(01-18-2019, 02:32 PM)BIAD Wrote: The Australian Open is broadcast in the early hours on the television here in the UK and my wife is a tennis fan.
My son rises at 5.30.am. and being the forever mother, my wife leaves the TV on and goes to make him some
breakfast.

With one sleepy-eye open, I switch the channel and find out what is happening in the world.
This morning, a 'feel-good' Breakfast News channel 'Good Morning Britain' caught my attention when I heard
the last Yellow Pages business directory would be delivered today before it's fazed out for good.

This once-large book is the UK's version of America's White Pages directory and offers the reader telephone
numbers for companies. At one time, it even held private numbers of the public, but with today's technology, the
internet has finally killed off the expression "I'll check the phone-book".

In a light presentation of the announcement, the TV programme showed a commercial from the eighties and
realising I wasn't going back to sleep, I watched the advert that brought a smile to face due to the memory of it.
Later during the actual commercials on that television channel, another showed another modern-day manner
of advertising products

Here's the eighties commercial.




Notice the social-class position of the dated family.
The male has came home from work carrying a Joiner's tool-bag or 'bass'. The viewer is informed by the optics
that there's no household vehicle and that the man probably works locally. He is skilled and works with his hands.
In the eighties, he would be perceived as 'upper-working-class' as he has invested his time on training for a trade
that is above the average labourer.

The manner of his dress indicates he works on a construction site and obviously interacts with other males in that
industry. This also means he daily involves himself in a social structure where weakness is mocked and strength of
character is appreciated.
Basically-speaking, it's the way a physical-like style a male carries himself in essence to protect his family, property
and survival. 

The man arrives home and his son is musing on a style of bicycle and after the dominant patriarch (notice how he stands
over the boy with his vulnerable areas exposed), the father doubts the decision-making of the youngster but doesn't rule-out
that such a purchase is possible in the future.

We're shown through the sad features of the boy that he's aware that such a specifically-designed bicycle is not going
to immediately be given and that he's also appreciates that it is probably out of his family's price range.

The lad is sat in a back-yard of his home where it's suggested a garden could reside due to the hose-pipe hanging
from the exterior wall of the kitchen. An old wash-tub hangs there too, implying that washing-machines were still a luxury,
although the tub may have been kept via traditional frugalness.

The mother is preparing the evening meal and on entry by the father, does the viewer becomes aware that the mother
is in-on some-sort of clandestine plan that involves the child's wish. They both focus on finding a bicycle-outlet in the
telephone book and we realise that a benevolent success story is unfolding where the 'Yellow Pages' is a paramount
point to the whole situation.

The next day, we see the boy quietly taking his new racing-bike out and the father is shown peeping out of the bedroom
window watching to see the happiness of his son with his new gift. The youngster seems aware that his father is monitoring
his movements and glances up at the front bedroom window to see of he's correct.
Having to maintain his dominant role of strong, protecting and wise parent and father, the man pulls away from view,
but the son notices the movement of the curtain.

The boy smiles to himself as he understands that his happiness is important to his parents and that certain positions
of standing cannot be let down. The father feels the boys excitement because he too once knew that care-free wonder,
but only releases his view in a friendly acknowlegment with a touch of light-hearted self-congratulation regarding the
bike's seat.

The viewer is left with the confidence that a caring family unit -of all levels of class structure in society, needs the Yellow
Pages.

Now watch this 2019 commercial.



A boy in his bedroom articulating his dream version of a vehicle with coloured pens. The father leans through the bedroom
door and asks if his son would like to see his new car. The way that the male offers the opportunity and the response of
the child implies the standard family-bond is there and that special 'male-ism' of enjoying physical objects is something
they're both aware of in each other.

In reality, this initial segment of the commercial tells us the father is the son's friend and not a mentor.

Notice the man does not actually enter the room, could this be out of respect for his son's private space? We're to assume
the property would belong to the parents and when teaching a young male respect for his elders and rules of an household, it
would be normal for the male to enter the child's area, dominate that space, but still leave a confidence of safety.
Yet, he merely speaks from the doorway.

An exterior view shows that the home is considerable, there is a driveway with a large neatly-cut lawn at the front of the house.
No wash-tub here, this family is affluent and since the male has hinted that his car is a new car, we can surmise he also had
a car before this one. Hence, we perceive this family as upper-to-middle-class.

Holding his illustrated idea of the perfect car, the boy looks at the new car and his father asks him for his approval.
The roles have been reversed now. The adult requires the boy's endorsement and when it's not given, the father weakly recites
some gimmicks of the vehicle and is answered with condemnation from his son.

The young lad surveys the car and repeats that he doesn't favour his father's choice, advising that "it doesn't have any rockets"
The father counters his son's negativity with another defensive call of a modern add-on of the vehicle and asks again for the
boy's blessing via his body-stance.

The son adamantly states the car is not the one he had drawn and confidently waves his illustrated idea of what a correct option
would and should be. In an attempt to maintain his friendship with the boy, the father weakly says that one day, the son might get
to drive it. The child throws his drawings at his father in anger and the adult flinches in the defence.

Finally, the adult reaches out to put his arm around his son and the boy rejects the offer and actually stares at his father when he
does it. The dominant person in the shot is obvious.

There you are... Google's constant social engineering and progressive educating of the last twenty-odd years has changed
the map of the family-unit. The father is a mewling man-boy and is dominated by his spoilt child.

The mother is missing from the disrespectful situation because the goal of demeaning fathers would become confusing if the
mother had interceded and rebuked the child and if she agreed with her husband, it could be seen as servile.
Once again BIAD has seen what so many do not. 
In the first video we have a strong father figure, and a child that has been given limits but is loved. A mother and father who work as part of the  team, as a family should work. The child is happy and feels safe.
The second video we have a child that has been given no limits, is insecure and aggressive, The father is a strange mixture of a stereotype woman ( frighten insecure and always looking to be reassured ) in a male body. The child aggressive and violent, and can only think of what they want.
The sad thing is the end result of such upbringings is seen in blood on the streets of England
#22
This chap is getting a little too close to what actually happens all the time.

Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe. 
#23
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear, does it make a noise ??
Dont know but im sure its the white heterosexual mans fault the tree fell.


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