only1genevieve ([info]only1genevieve) wrote,
@ 2007-09-26 13:16:00
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Entry tags:angry, feminism, swiffer

Gena ANGRY.
It's taken me weeks to post about this, because, literally, it made me so so angry. Rather than describe the depths of my fury myself, however, I think I will let a classic film quote speak for me.

"I hated her so much! It, it, the, it, flames, flames, flames . . . on the side of my face. Breathing, breathless, heaving breaths, heaving . . ."

- Mrs. White, Clue

Why what, you ask, could have invited such ire, Genevieve?

Why, the same damn thing that always pisses me off. The god damned f*ing sexist Swiffer commercials! Only Swiffer could think it acceptable to mock the first serious female presidential candidate ever by showing a woman running for office... against a mop and bucket. Here I am, ramming my head on my desk. What is this, 1963? Can someone please tell me who is in charge of their marketing campaign so I can give him/her a nice sound kick in their privates?

And if I find out that anyone on my friends list owns a Swiffer or Swiffer related product, I will personally hunt you down and shove it up your ...

...you get the idea. Just don't buy their products. Personally, I did use one once and it was pretty awful. But if you want one that badly, I'm sure the off-brand is just as good.


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Is that different from a mop?
[info]nighthawk269
2007-09-27 04:54 am UTC (link)
Really, they have a commercial like that? Wow, maybe I am missing something by not watching tv much. Personally, the whole idea of a swiffer offends me. Let's replace a broom and a mop that have infinite uses with an expensive gadget that has limited uses and requires you to buy replacements every few months. Forget the military industrial complex, we are being taken over by the corporate profit/marketing empire of evil.

And you kids, get off my grass!

Fred

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Re: Is that different from a mop?
[info]only1genevieve
2007-10-02 05:00 pm UTC (link)
Yes, and this is just the latest in the shudder-inducing, "What decade do you think it is?" brand of Swiffer commercials.

And that has to be the best description of a swiffer I've heard yet. A friend in college did get one one year, and we used it to clean and ... it didn't work.

The commercials really don't make sense to me because, in my experience at least, it's always young guys that buy Swiffers. My ex and his group had one for their apartment, Paul and his roommate had one when we started dating. It seems like they should be making commercials for the young bachelor set, since they're the ones buying it.

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[info]jabberwockypie
2007-10-02 06:31 am UTC (link)
My uncle has a Swiffer thing he's giving me because he thought it might help clean my icky grubby kitchen floor*, but it's several years old and thus not supporting their company. You can hunt me down if you want, but a) I always buy off-brand stuff and b) my sister would beat you to it. She has hated them since they used a Blondie song in a commercial, thus making idiots people think that she was humming the Swiffer commercial song (hey, she's 17.)

*Seriously, how can a kitchen floor have this many layers of dirt? I scrub it and then I think it's clean, only to find MORE layers of dirt peeling up. Did the people who lived here before me laminate it or something?

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