sexism is alive and well in deepest Surrey

[baratron]

Seen on a van today:

Handyman Home Services
Why get a husband when you can just hire one?

Um... even bearing in mind that I've been bitching lately about Richard not getting round to doing DIY, I'm not even going to start on what's wrong with that advertising slogan.

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[hatter.livejournal.com]

Maybe they had a matching set of advertising offering to let you hire women to do what your wife wouldn't, but had to stop them due to high call volumes not relating to the activities they intended to offer ?


the hatter

[hattifattener]

coincidentally I ran across this news story just now: (I'll do the things your wife won't)

There was an SUV ad around here a while ago with a similarly annoying tag line. Something along the lines of the SUV doing more work than your husband will. (File under "cars as penis replacements"?)