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* An advert for Carte d'Or ice cream featured the slogan "Show them the Carte d'Or", with a woman's stiletto-heeled foot kicking backwards into a pond.

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* An advert for Carte d'Or ice cream featured the slogan "Show them the Carte d'Or", with a woman's stiletto-heeled foot kicking a man, who falls backwards into a pond.
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* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2xhmgfUgs&lc=Ugxn2AO4pMz-ZijWalx4AaABAg DIRECTV NOW commercial]] features a woman throwing her male ex's belongings out with utter glee, with a decent amount of them breaking, and after she finishes, she relaxes to enjoy some DIRECTV NOW.

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* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2xhmgfUgs&lc=Ugxn2AO4pMz-ZijWalx4AaABAg DIRECTV NOW commercial]] features a woman throwing her male ex's belongings out with utter glee, with a decent amount of them breaking, and after she finishes, she relaxes to enjoy some DIRECTV NOW.NOW.
* An advert for Carte d'Or ice cream featured the slogan "Show them the Carte d'Or", with a woman's stiletto-heeled foot kicking backwards into a pond.
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Hillshire Harms: removed prescriptive writing.


* Apparently it's okay to teach little girls that tying up boys is okay as long as you get to take their delicious sandwiches made with Hillshire Farms ham!

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* Apparently it's okay to teach little girls that tying up boys is okay as long as you get to take their delicious sandwiches made with In Hillshire Farms ham!ham commercials, a little girl ties up a boy.
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* During the a sale of a Virgin Mobile package, the company decided to make some commercials of a woman stalking a man. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpV7DyM4Zk0 In the commercials, the actress acts crazy and creepy.]] Rightfully, men started to complain and the commercials were removed from most stations. If the situation was reversed, the commercials would have never been given the green light in the first place.

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* During the a sale of a Virgin Mobile package, the company decided to make some commercials of a woman stalking a man. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpV7DyM4Zk0 In the commercials, the actress acts crazy and creepy.]] Rightfully, men started to complain and the commercials were removed from most stations. If the situation was reversed, the commercials would have never been given the green light in the first place.
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* There's a [[https://youtu.be/DMKihbCm9Yk?t=11m29s Sega Dreamcast commercial]] about a man named Brian daydreaming about ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'' and at the end says one of the main characters name (Nozomi), to which it cuts back to reality where back in bed, his girlfriend angerly questions him who Nozomi is; thinking that he's cheating on her. He seems still kind of out of it as it seems like he's half awake and is only given a second to respond before his girlfriend punches him in the face. The commercial ends with Brian having a black eye

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* There's a [[https://youtu.be/DMKihbCm9Yk?t=11m29s Sega Dreamcast commercial]] about a man named Brian daydreaming about ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'' and at the end says one of the main characters name (Nozomi), to which it cuts back to reality where back in bed, his girlfriend angerly angrily questions him who Nozomi is; thinking that he's cheating on her. He seems still kind of out of it as it seems like he's half awake and is only given a second to respond before his girlfriend punches him in the face. The commercial ends with Brian having a black eye



* Used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09z8lwOEYA this superbowl ad]] for Pepsi Max, in which a wife physically abuses her husband for various transgressions including ordering french fries instead of a fruit cup and smiling at a pretty girl. Given the ending (where the husband hustles the wife away from the scene in a panic after she accidentally knocks another woman unconscious), the message of the commercial seems to be "Its okay for women to beat the crap out of men, but horribly wrong if she harms another woman". The fact that the couple is black led to charges of portraying a stereotypical Angry Black Woman as well.

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* Used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09z8lwOEYA this superbowl ad]] for Pepsi Max, in which a wife physically abuses her husband for various transgressions including ordering french fries instead of a fruit cup and smiling at a pretty girl. Given the ending (where the husband hustles the wife away from the scene in a panic after she accidentally knocks another woman unconscious), the message of the commercial seems to be "Its "It's okay for women to beat the crap out of men, but horribly wrong if she harms another woman". The fact that the couple is black led to charges of portraying a stereotypical Angry Black Woman as well.
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While this hardly sounds like a super healthy, friendly relationship, throwing a shirt in someone's face doesn't meet anyone's definition of "abuse" I've ever heard.


* "Five Hour Energy." In short, a guy used to sleep later than his girlfriend (wife?), who used the time he was sleeping to work out. Then he started using Five Hour Energy and decides he'll start working out with her. For no adequately explained reason, she now hates him. He mentions that they're not on speaking terms and at the end of the commercial, she throws what looks to be a shirt in his face. Once again, it's not clear why she's so angry, making it look like she's just a little unstable.[[note]]To explain the original intent of the commercial, the girl becomes mad because the man is now intruding on "her" time and is taking control of it. One scene has her working out, thoroughly enjoying something on tv and the boyfriend comes in and switches channels to something he wants. It continues like that throughout the commercial. Of course even in this interpretation, the trope's still at least somewhat present, since it implies that her passive-aggressive hostility and resentment is justified as opposed to just telling him what he's doing that's annoying her. [[/note]]
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* "Five Hour Energy." In short, a guy used to sleep later than his girlfriend (wife?), who used the time he was sleeping to work out. Then he started using Five Hour Energy and decides he'll start working out with her. For no adequately explained reason, she now hates him. He mentions that they're not on speaking terms and at the end of the commercial, she throws what looks to be a shirt in his face. Once again, it's not clear why she's so angry, making it look like she's just a little unstable.[[note]]To explain the original intent of the commercial, the girl becomes mad because the man is now intruding on "her" time and is taking control of it. One scene has her working out, thoroughly enjoying something on tv and the boyfriend comes in and switches channels to something he wants. It continues like that throughout the commercial. [[/note]]

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* "Five Hour Energy." In short, a guy used to sleep later than his girlfriend (wife?), who used the time he was sleeping to work out. Then he started using Five Hour Energy and decides he'll start working out with her. For no adequately explained reason, she now hates him. He mentions that they're not on speaking terms and at the end of the commercial, she throws what looks to be a shirt in his face. Once again, it's not clear why she's so angry, making it look like she's just a little unstable.[[note]]To explain the original intent of the commercial, the girl becomes mad because the man is now intruding on "her" time and is taking control of it. One scene has her working out, thoroughly enjoying something on tv and the boyfriend comes in and switches channels to something he wants. It continues like that throughout the commercial. Of course even in this interpretation, the trope's still at least somewhat present, since it implies that her passive-aggressive hostility and resentment is justified as opposed to just telling him what he's doing that's annoying her. [[/note]]
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** Another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KiR7rMB5Jg 2013 M&M's advert has Red playing a piano singing "I Would Do Anything For Love"]]. The commercial starts innocently enough, with him shopping with her while carrying the bags, playing on the beach, painting her nails for her, and even wearing a toupee. Then, she starts trying to put him in a pinata, covering him with whipped cream, having him sit on a cake, ''stick him in the oven'', and '''her and her friends biting into him hungrily'''! They also show a scene of him hiding under the piano, clutching one of its legs while sobbing.

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** Another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KiR7rMB5Jg com/watch?v=WGzH7j5Pqzw 2013 M&M's advert has Red playing a piano singing "I Would Do Anything For Love"]]. The commercial starts innocently enough, with him shopping with her while carrying the bags, playing on the beach, painting her nails for her, and even wearing a toupee. Then, she starts trying to put him in a pinata, covering him with whipped cream, having him sit on a cake, ''stick him in the oven'', and '''her and her friends biting into him hungrily'''! They also show a scene of him hiding under the piano, clutching one of its legs while sobbing.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOEjpHH9-5I A 2013 M&M's advert]] features Ms. Brown being warned by a friend about how a woman she knows loses control around chocolate (with said woman eying Ms. Brown the whole time). What does Ms. Brown do? Why, she sets up Red with her, who is then [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything trapped in her locked car as she loses control]].

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOEjpHH9-5I com/watch?v=d2m_0-_geLc A 2013 M&M's advert]] features Ms. Brown being warned by a friend about how a woman she knows loses control around chocolate (with said woman eying Ms. Brown the whole time). What does Ms. Brown do? Why, she sets up Red with her, who is then [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything trapped in her locked car as she loses control]].

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