Question for the parents on these boards...

[tsar4]

How do you feel about personal product commercials today?

Recently, there's been a shift to commercials being a bit more specific when referring to personal hygiene products.  One talks about full-body deodorant, including the "under-boob", etc.  Another talks about "put your balls in our hands", also mentioning "nuts", etc.  For those of you with young, impressionable kids, how do you feel about this?  What do you do when the kid(s) ask - "What does that mean?"?

Having grown up with both Lucy & Desi and Rob & Laura having separate beds in their respective shows, I've watched the slow loosening of tv norms and wondered, how far is too far?

[Insipid]

Not a parent, but that Lume bitch is the one who seemed to start the trend of explicitly mentioning body parts for deodorant. Arms, pits, feet, private. She must have a fetish. 🤮

[André Toulon]

Games that say shit can get an E rating, every 8 year old with a tiktok curses, I can't really remember a time buddy didn't say nuts. 

Mostly, my fight is with observing your surroundings...so much less focus is wasted on words with me. Pay afuckinttention to what's happening around you. Put the phone down before I take it.

My daughter is the curse police so now I have to yell Shimmy shark when I burn myself

Edited June 9, 2024 by André Toulon

[[classic swim]]

There’s this drug help hotline infomercial I’ve seen recently where the narrator outright says you might “k_ll yourself!” and it is funny how TV standards now operate on much less tact.

But I like the 50s framing on this so: 

 

[André Toulon]

Ok but you can't legit say "k_ll yourself" anywhere on the Internet these days.

Well, you can't type it....but you can yell it all day.

Edit, not that I want to say it... I get it

Edited June 9, 2024 by André Toulon

[[classic swim]]

Well I get saying it on the interwebs but I thought TV always used “suicide” as the professional way of saying it.

But this guy was like “ohh get some help before ya ___ urself!”

Edited June 9, 2024 by [classic swim]

[Raptorpat]

idk i think there's a difference between like the human body parts versus being sexually explicit

i think the lume lady is fine, but some of the... manscaping(?) innuendo stuff weirds me out 

[txanimeluva]

Not a parent other than to cats, but it doesn’t bother me.

Imo it’s not that big of a deal talking about it body parts, it’s apart of anatomy 

and naming the body part to sell a product idk seems fine to me 

[Vamped]

Of all the things out there to be cautious about "underboob" and "balls" is nothing. Plus the only time we watch "TV" is when we're on vacation in a hotel. I did notice when we were in St. Louis one of the pad commercials changed from that blue liquid to red and I was like ... thank God my grandpa going blind because he'd have a heart attack lmao 

 

.... now if they say pussy or dick then we got a problem 

[mthor]

It's a little late for me to be concerned about what my children see on TV. 

[Raptorpat]

49 minutes ago, mthor said:

It's a little late for me to be concerned about what my children see on TV. 

that's child abuse, missy

[mthor]

6 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

that's child abuse, missy

Yeah, yeah, get in line.

Next you'll be telling me that I can't have them pick up smokes and beer for me.

[Lynnrael]

not a biological parent but I did raise kids for about a decade. I've always hated commercials, but the way todays kids consume media is entirely different from how we consumed it growing up and its really hard to say how it affects them. Youtube commercials are highly targeted but since I do everything I can to not engage with them, the ads I get always miss the mark and seem stupid. I dont know what kind of ads kids are getting through youtube or other platforms show them, but I can say that advertising now is much more insidious and effective than it used to be. influencers and social media have driven up frenzies over all kinds of weird products and bullshit, which is deeply concerning. So if you ask me, advertising today is far more sophisticated and evil today than it ever has been and teaching kids media literacy and critical thinking is more important than ever. 

[katt_goddess]

The only thing that I ask is to please retain the blue liquid for those frickin' maxi pad commercials. It's blue for a reason!

Also these are now a thing and I keep getting e-mails about buying some. 

 

[discolé monade]

On 6/9/2024 at 3:47 PM, André Toulon said:

Games that say shit can get an E rating, every 8 year old with a tiktok curses, I can't really remember a time buddy didn't say nuts. 

Mostly, my fight is with observing your surroundings...so much less focus is wasted on words with me. Pay afuckinttention to what's happening around you. Put the phone down before I take it.

My daughter is the curse police so now I have to yell Shimmy shark when I burn myself

before i can even get the ck out, i'm like 'fu-'

and the boy from somewhere in the house '-UDGE!'

 

 

[SwimOdin]

It’s more I have to censor my wife around our grandson much more than I do the media he consumes. Her favorite word is “fuck” and I’m shocked he’s never said it.

[MasqueradeOverture]

Disappointed this wasn't a Super Bowl commercial

 

[Vamped]

2 hours ago, katt_goddess said:

The only thing that I ask is to please retain the blue liquid for those frickin' maxi pad commercials. It's blue for a reason!

 

Why? It's not like they're using actual blood on the commercials 

[katt_goddess]

18 hours ago, Vamped said:

Why? It's not like they're using actual blood on the commercials 

Red stains and it just pisses me off.