What's that say about me?

Random (sometimes) entertaining prattle from the mind of a rather ordinary girl with extraordinary powers.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Son of a Bleach

There is a new Clorox bleach commerical on TV. The set is that of a room in a house with a washing machine. As we watch the sped-up scene progresses from present day to generations passed, and then back to present day. Several thin, white women speedily wash clothes as their houses move from decade to decade.The voice over goes something like this "Everyone does laundry. Your Mother Did Laundry, your grandmother did laundry, your great grandmother does laundry. Maybe even a few men." and it ends with a Clorox bottle progressing from an old-fashioned bottle to a modern one with the words "Pure white since 1912" Um, hi. Could we think of a more subversively offensive commercial? I know I overanalyze things and I know I'm over-sensitive to straight white male supremacy, but to me the commercial sounded like this- "Clorox bleach. Everything and everyone should be white and women should stay in the home."

3 Comments:

At 10:11 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

cannot read your post

 
At 7:49 PM , Blogger Jamie said...

you personable being you, I'll change the font color. Thanks for the notice. :)

 
At 10:11 AM , Blogger KoaStar said...

ok anonymous was right about the color, the park ranger put that message on Jon's blog comments too, AND you are wonderful!

 

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