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I saw a commercial that made me mad the other day. The theme was about making a regular day special by using a particular product to interact with your child; I think the one I saw was about chocolate Rice Crispies. It is one of a genre that annoys me because I think what the advertiser is really trying to sell me is how awesome my kid is. And that's not a commodity that's theirs to sell. I already own that.
I just get so tired of how advertisers try to exploit the insecurities of the very people who bring them their profits. It has always seemed to me that women take the brunt of this (witness ads in Cosmo and other women's mags) but that may be sexist on my part. There are certainly enough commercials out there trying to sell men virility in one way or another.