The advertising business is not exactly the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. A TV commercial showing a female lawyer in a courtroom transported into an orgasmic fantasy by Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo continues to spark a war of words between top female executives.
People are just awestruck by the banality of the commercial.
But a miss is as good as a mile. It's just stupefyingly dull.'' Disliking this Ally McBeal takeoff is not just a women thing. The worst thing you can do is create invisible advertising. Plus, she says, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer would not appear in a commercial that perpetuates negative stereotypes about women. Kaplan Thaler says.