Need to set the MacMacs, the freetards & the mommybloggers against each other; thus starting the long prophesised entitleclypse.
Thus spoke I.
This is so not going to make me any friends; but what the hell, alienating people is all part of the fun. Before I commence to ranting though, let’s make one thing clear. Any vitriol I expend here is not directed at mothers in general. Those who know me know that I have the greatest respect for mothers; fuck for parents in general. Anyone who would willingly subject themselves to one or more half-formed proto-humans gets props from me. Gods know I can’t bear the thought of creating my own little hell-spawn. What I don’t have any respect for is entitletards; and, based on the recent “motrinmoms” retardation, I’m going to place the “mommybloggers” firmly into the entitletard category.
So, what’s all the fuss about? Well, on one level I’d have to say, “some new media douchebagettes got their knickers in a twist over a fucking commercial” On another, slightly less profane level, the deal appears to be this. The makers of Motrin ran a somewhat snarky advertisement advising mothers with backaches from lugging their demon-seed around all day take Motrin. That’s it really. I mean, I’ve seen the ad. It’s stupid, as much advertisement is, but it’s hardly calling for the sacrificing of the children to Moloch (that’s me who’s calling for the Moloch sacrifices). At its worst, and I mean abso-fucking-lutely worst the commercial is implying that lugging your larvae around in a sling is a lifestyle choice and, just a little bit, a fashion statement.
Apparently though this set off a whole contingent of new media douchebagettes who I, up until this point, had been blissfully unaware of. The pitchfork and torch brigade was let by one Jessica Gotlieb, who is apparently some high muckty-muck in the “blather incessantly about my ability to do something that mammals have been doing for fifty million years” circle. You can read her account of the story here. It’s a wonderful little missive dripping with self congratulation and entitlement. My favorite part is where she (desperately) asks for anyone in the media doing a story about this to contact her.
So, blah, blah, anyway the entitlement mommies bitched for a while on twitter; and Motrin pulled the commercial because they’re a bunch of nutless wonders. Seriously, I’m boycotting Motrin now, just because they don’t have the stones to tell a bunch of unsatisfied housefraus with more time than sense to get bent. And now we can consign this whole retarded debacle to the shit-pile of history. Well, we can once I have my rant about it.
See the thing is, regardless of what the “mommy bloggers” would have you think (and I’m certain I’ll get an earful of this once they arrive to claim my testicles for their own), this incident has nothing to do with someone insulting the brave noble institution of motherhood. You could take this story, replace the mommies with Scobles, or FSF zealots and it plays exactly the same. This isn’t about motherhood; it’s about entitletardation, new media douchebaggery and the desperate need that some people have for someone, anyone to pay attention to them.
There you go, I’ve had my say. Let the lynching begin.
“…the desperate need that some people have for someone, anyone to pay attention to them.”
*snort*
I agree 100%. And that goes as much for the Mactards as the early-20s mother who lives next to me and thinks the world revolves around her because she has a working uterus. I’m sick of people who think they get special consideration (in the form of not being offended or having goods and services designed specifically for them). You want it your way? Fucking build it. You don’t like something the media did? Turn off the Goddamn TV. Otherwise, enjoy your glass of STFU.
P.S. where’s my fucking MacBook Firewire? It’s been a month now. I don’t think Apple is listening to ME!
Angry Drunk,
I think you are missing the point. The ad was aimed at mothers who wear their babies. Not at angry drunk men. The twitter thing was like on big focus group. What matters is what moms who carry their babies think. Not at what angry drunk men think.
BTW – if there is ever a commercial aimed at angry drunk men that you find insulting – I will write an angry twitter about. I promise.
I don’t get it, carrying extra weight around can cause back pain. It’s not like some how because that weight is a baby it magically doesn’t. Try walking around all day with 15 pounds of books in a back pack and see how your back feels. Would anyone care if this commercial had just replaced mom with college student, and baby with books?
@Googie Baba:
No, you’re missing the point. Your precious twitter focus group is nothing more than a bunch of whining idiots with an obscenely swollen sense of entitlement and their own importance.
My, you are angry. Are you drunk?
Listen the whole social media blogging twitter facebook thing is whiney and entitled. Why are you so pissed off that it occasionally effective in getting people what they want. Motrin was trying to sell to us. We didn’t like the ad, and they pulled it. Why do you care?
I see your linked in profile.
Does Skill soft like your blog?
877.545.5763
@Anon:
Oh yeah, the adult way to deal with hearing something you don’t like; threaten someone’s job. Very mature.
Then don’t be a douche and post your linked in profile either this is work or this is private.
Wouldn’t it be funny if someone got dooced for fucking with mommys?
@Anon:
Pretty sad for someone who is afraid to put their own name to their words.
Dude, lemme tell you, arguing with mommybloggers is like riding a week-dead pig. You’ll get nowhere, and you can’t even get good bacon out of it. They’re completely convinced that what they want is what they get, and if you disagree, you hate children, mothers, whatever. They’re not as bad as the breastfeeding nazis, but not by much.
@Anon:
If you were any more of a pussy, you’d drown in 28 days.
@Googie Baba:
Oh, and speaking AS a parent, I did wear the kid in one of those sling things. They were hot as hell, and my back hurt like a motherfucker, and based on how uncomfortable it was for more than ten minutes at a time, I DO think that people who walk around with the kid in a sling for 12 hours a day ARE just making some trendoid “I’m a better parent than thou” statement.
@John C. Welch:
Oh, I know brother, I know. I do find it amusing that of all the people who want my hide: the FSF, the Mozilla Foundation, the LOLbertarians; it’s a mommy blogger who threatens my job.
John- I never said anything like that. I am sure you are a great parent.
I just don’t understand why you guys are so angry that they pulled the ad.
@The Angry Drunk:
That’s their MO. You say things that displease them, they ruin your life, or try to. Violent Acres has had some really amusing runins with them. Kind of like the Mafia, only with less competence and more whining.
@Googie Baba:
Actually, I don’t care about your opinion of me. I don’t know you well enough for it to matter. As far as being pissed, it was a funny commercial, and I’m just tired, in general, of oversensitive entitletards crying worse than the infants they’re raising every time someone says something about them other than OMG YOU’RE MIRACLE WORKERS.
As if spawning was a miracle.
John – how did you get “oversensitive entitletards crying” from this whole thing? Where are you getting any of this? We didn’t like the ad. We told them. They pulled it. Period.
I’m sure Motrin will ride out the storm.
Don’t you have a more productive target for all of this anger?
@Googie Baba:
Googie, I’m not really angry that the ad was pulled. If you read around here you’d see that over the top vitriol is part of the performance. And I don’t have any actual problem with you mommy bloggers. If blogging about your kids is what blows your skirt up, then knock yourself out. What I do have a problem with is the sense of self-congratulatory sense of entitlement over getting Motrin to pull an entirely inoffensive advertisement just because you didn’t like it; and thus I call that out.
Let’s put it this way; we just got though months of some of the most vile, racist crap being spread over the national airwaves about a good honest man who merely had the temerity to be a Black man running for president. And yet the vitriol is reserved for a fucking ibuprofen vendor. Seriously, can you not see how amazingly wrong that is?
I would think all those little mommys would have something better to moan over, like stretchmarks and flapjack tits, but nooooo Motrin is the devil.
My Granny got all pissed over some burger joint add making old people look crochity and all her complaining did was support that stereo type.
Ok. I agree. There are far more important issues.
I was beginning to think that you guys worked for Johnson & Johnson.
@Googie Baba:
Read around here more; everyone knows it’s Apple that has me in their pocket.
@Googie Baba:
Hey, they want to pay me off, I’ll whore formula with a smile.
@Googie Baba:
Yes, but I’m waiting for Adobe to say something stupid. In the meantime, why not whack at another group who think the sun shines just for them.
This is one of the only sites that I really enjoy the comments on. You and Mr. Welch are a blast.
I just watched the baby sling motrin ad on you tube.then I watched the one for big fake boobs. Not sure who I feel worse for?
Wow, this is like watching beef being slaughtered in downtown Delhi.
Frankly, if a group of pissed off women can get an ad taken off the air, maybe it’s smart not to get on their bad side.
But I must say, I do love to come here for the flame wars you stir up, Darby.
Cunts!
Post that!
Hooray! And now Rip is here!
@Indiana: What a wanker. Saying “cunts” without context doesn’t make you a clever, insulting person. It shows that you know a word that offends people in polite conversation, which this isn’t.
Here to watch pissing upwind as only Mr. Angry Drunk can do it.
Fuck you for bringing this to my attention. My life was so much better 15 minutes ago.
Oh, and to googie baba’s comment: “We didn’t like the ad. We told them. They pulled it. Period.”
My question: “we told them”—why? Don’t you have better things to do? Are you suddenly a media consultant? Next time you see an ad you don’t like, just ignore it and get on with your life.
@Rory Marinich:
Unless he’s british, in which case, “cunt” is the all purpose word, ala “fuck” in the US.
@Meh:
Dude, mommybloggers are mentally and emotionally incapable of letting shit go. There are SOME exceptions, but by and large, they whine the way they won’t let their kids.
A suggestion for the “mommys” go ahead and boycot Motrin but please take some Midol.
@Rory Marinich
Cunt! Lifes to short not to hurl abuse back.
@JCW
‘Ow’s it goin’ guvnor?
@mommybloggers
Life is too short to make political correctness the norm. It appears you want us to be nothing more than drones. Let us be Human you bunch a cunts!