Double Standard Abuse Female On Male / Advertising

• In Hillshire Farms ham commercials, a little girl ties up a boy.
• There's a Sega Dreamcast commercial about a man named Brian daydreaming about 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 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
• The original version of a 1990s Canadian TV car commercial had a man, walking down the street with his girlfriend or wife, steal a glance at a car another woman was driving. His partner, assuming he was staring at the woman, smacked him in the side. That ad, as reported widely in the press, received so many complaints of the "Would you have thought it funny if the genders had been reversed?" variety that the ad agency quickly withdrew it and shot a second version where she mimes shouting at him instead, which is less extreme, but still fits the Double Standard.
• A 2013 US Nissan commercial features a woman acting like a complete bitch to her boyfriend, even locking him out of his own vehicle (when he was holding two coffees and it was nighttime). Sure, what she did isn't exactly "violent", but it still works on the "double standard — female on male" edict.
• There was a PSA about fitness. It started with a young boy running away from three girls, apparently he wasn't fit enough and he started slowing down, the girls caught up to him and started kissing him, a thing that the boy clearly didn't want.
• During the sale of a Virgin Mobile package, the company decided to make some commercials of a woman stalking a man. 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.
• Eaton's department stores in the 1990s advertised their new "female focus" with a commercial in which a wife kept her husband chained to the kitchen sink. The ad was deemed so offensively misandrist that it was pulled less than a month after its release.
• "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" was the slogan on a tee-shirt marketed by the David and Goliath tee-shirt company. Eventually, a very public controversy resulted in the shirts being removed from many stores. To show how pervasive this trope is, many people supported the sale of the shirts, including a professor at the University of Illinois who said she thought it served as revenge for boys' bullying.
• An ad for Sears air conditioning services, wherein a wife yells at her husband for not being quick enough on the ball to have already called Sears air conditioning services, was criticized when it was pointed out that if the gender-roles had been reversed, and it was the man who was domineeringly commanding "YOU'LL CALL NOW!" at the woman, the company would have been picketed. Aside from that is the obvious Fridge Logic of why she didn't just call them herself.
• Used in 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 "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.
• Dannon's Oikos Greek Yogurt:
  • An ad for Dannon's Oikos Greek Yogurt featuring John Stamos starts out innocently enough, he's playfully teasing her with greek yogurt, eventually she grabs it off of him and headbutts him so hard he's knocked unconscious. You see him at the end finally waking up with a black eye and bruises, and she threatens to headbutt him a second time. Somehow this was supposed to be "funny". We don't even have to say what would happen if the roles were reversed. Something featuring a man doing that to a woman would only appear in a PSA against domestic violence.
  • A second Dannon's Oikos Greek Yogurt commercial features a woman breaking up with John, and after a shot of him in the rain, shows him on the couch, in a blanket and eating something. The girl enters the shot, tells him not to beat himself up over her by eating something unhealthy, only for him to reveal he's eating the titular yogurt. A second woman enters the shot, and incensed that the man she's dumped is apparently seeing someone else, throws something at him. He dodges it and informs her that it's his sister.
• A Whole collection can be found here in The Ignored Channel in a series called Misandry In The Media, as well as Misandry In Music.
• M&M's:
  • 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 trapped in her locked car as she loses control.
  • Another 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.
• A 2013 KFC commercial for some spicy chicken bites features a man offering some of his spicy chicken bites to a woman he spies at a party. The woman comes over, takes a bite, and slaps the poor guy, apparently because the chicken bites had that much of a kick to them. Then, to metaphorically kick the poor guy while he's down, she takes some more of his spicy chicken bites while he's soothing the cheek she just slapped. It looks like a blend of this trope and BDSM due to lack of context.
• V8 has a series of commercials in which women slap men on the head as punishment for not eating healthier food. The commercials end with the slogan "could have had a V8" as if it to state that the men had it coming for not drinking V8. The only time you see a woman get "head bonked" in a V8 commercial is when a baby in a stroller does it to her mother.
• On the emotionally-abusive bent, Firestone Tires shows a woman running over her boyfriend's Z-Box console in retaliation for taking a nap and relaxing while she was doing errands.
• This video piracy ad from the UK shows a couple watching a pirated DVD, with their reaction being set to various genres (listed over them at the top of the screen). The couple settles in to watch the movie (Romantic Comedy). When the woman realizes that it's a fake (Horror), she starts repeatedly hitting her boyfriend with a pillow (Action). After the guy snaps and hits her back once with another pillow (Disaster), the woman gets upset, turns off the TV and leaves him, resulting in him lowering his head in shame (Tearjerker).
• A 2005 Australian "Morning Fresh" dishwashing detergent ad depicts a woman hitting her husband with a spanner when he uses "her" dishwasher to clean his car parts. Complaints were dismissed, mostly under the basis that he didn't object, making it okay for her to behave that way (which, of course, they wouldn't depict, since they're selling dishwashing detergent).
• This 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.
• 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.