Another Dumb Commercial

She's pretty happy about losing control of herself.

Mostly the world is about advertising these days. You can't do anything or go anywhere without having to sit through some silly story about how this product or that product will change your life for the better. It's offensive, especially when you've plunked down nearly ten bucks to see a movie of your own choosing, and have to watch all those commercials first. Lately the theaters have been showing one for Google, as if the Google people cannot believe you left your computer screen for two hours and did something else.

Until recently, the commercial I found the most offensive was one involving cartoon bears extolling the virtues of toilet paper. While we all can agree that bears do in fact shit in the woods, I would bet the farm that they do not use toilet paper. In fact, if a bear found some toilet paper left in the woods by a camper, he would probably eat it.

I said "until recently," because now there is an even worse commercial playing on TV.  It is for adult diapers for women who can no longer control their bodily functions and so urinate any old time, not necessarily into a toilet. This is a sad state of affairs and one best discussed, if at all, in private, preferably with one's doctor. Instead, this commercial shows three women -- all of them tubby of course because we are supposed to believe that women over a certain age are fat-- ecstatically happy and dancing joyfully because they now have these great new diapers that fit really well, and so they can get out there and live life again without pee stains on their clothing.

Certainly this is a good thing, and if I had such a need I would maybe use that product, but I would never be all that excited about it, dancing around as if I had just won the lottery. It is also insulting that the particular dance the women are all doing is The Twist, which was popular 50 years ago. But why stop there--why not show them doing the Charleston? Surely there are plenty of centenarians out there peeing uncontrollably.