So it's rather disconcerting when we come across situations that clearly transgress our politically correct sensibilities. Even more disturbing is the realization that what's good for some of us isn't neccessarily good for all of us. In it, a woman tells the SDM clerk that she has run out of a few things. We are shown lipstick being used to write a message on a mirror, scenes of clothes pulled out of a closet, sprayed with perfume and strewn with disdain across the room. An autographed baseball is held in one hand while the other carefully paints out all the signatures with nail polish.
Woman gleefully accepts and walks off smiling.
One wonders whether she intends to wreak more havoc on someone else. If we are to be understanding about gender issues, then we must try to balance it by understanding both genders' issues and not just one, and one only. The SDM ad is obviously a bad one, but by no means is it an exceptional one. Many ads, billboards, etc., have a very subtle bias against men, no doubt to make up for the years of inequity against women. If the above ad were shown with a man in a woman's house, then we'd also have to show the SWAT team surrounding the place and the eventual arrest and capture of this lunatic.