Ads reinforce thousands of stereotypes – men work, women cook; women don’t take enough care of themselves; women need men to pay attention to them 24/7 if they want to be happy; little girls don’t play with cars, so on and so forth. Working through them can be hard work, but work one must – to be carried away and live like all these stereotypes would be to live the rather odd life of the Barbie Doll.

Women, or rather girls, purportedly go out with boys with both or at least one of these. Shaving blades/creams/lotions–I am stretching my imagination here—maybe because women wouldn’t want their dates to look like ruffians with a daylong stubble. Magazines—this is the easy one—nothing else but women looking seductive would probably prompt them to buy those. And here is the clincher: underwear. Come on now!

 
 Even when you consider yourself a feminist (as I do), and tend to view the world through your feminist, Gloria Steinem-esque hippie shades (I don’t have those shades, wish I did), there is still the danger of…
 
LATENT SEXISM! AND TARANTULAS!
Okay, maybe not tarantulas, but I wanted to get your attention.
I experienced the dangers of first-hand [...]