The Forgotten Man Is an Integral Part of the American Family...Or is he?

 

Back on April 29, 2009 I wrote one of my Favorite Blog Postings (1,853 out of 1,854 are officially classified as one of my favorites). It was entitled “Dear Mister New President”. In it I laid out 20 Pressing Issues of Great Importance to the Good Ole USofA’s Future Peaceful Coexistence with itself and I asked our new President Barak Obama to address them after he got settled into the Oval Office.

Of course, I understood that he was going to have a couple of his own issues that he would prioritize ahead of my 20 but my issues were so compelling that I just knew he would be getting to work on mine in short order. I was wrong. He paid me no never mind.

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One of my 20 issues went like this...

Dumb White Guys … Stop TV commercial makers from always depicting the White Males as ignorant buffoons. I find it unrealistic and insulting that we have to always be instructed how to do anything and everything by every other type of species on the planet. This includes other men, women, children and talking animals.

Since April 29, 2009 this issue has grown into more of a devastating problem than Fella could ever have imagined. When the White Male does appear in TV Commercials, he is still being portrayed as an idiot but it’s worse than that, the White Male Has Almost Completely Disappeared from Our Commercials.

For example, today I saw an ad that had something to do with Health Care which showed two young females holding a baby with a caption that read, “Health Care for the Entire Family”. (I found myself thinking, “Where do they think babies come from?”)

I know there are cases where two young females do have a baby and they are being called A Modern Family but it concerns me that I may never see a white male and a female holding a small child with a caption that reads, “Health Care for the Entire Family” again?

Such family units do still exist. Actually most American Families are this type of family. Does It Not Make Perfect Sense That They Be Advertised To?

The word needs to be gotten out to the people paying for these commercials that these Forgotten White Men have money to spend. If that were to happen, then maybe they will be allowed back into American TV Commercials.

Did I just hear a significant number of My Dear Readers say out loud, “What’sAMatterFaYou,Fella? Don’t You Know That Ain’t Gonna Happen?”

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It looks like Fella has been put into his place. Okay, from the place I have been put, allow me to ponder this, Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others remember things that used to be and ask, “Where did they go?”

My Dear Readers, I am I now sensing that some of you are upset with me all over again. This time it is because I almost used a quote from the Late Robert Kennedy? Those some of you have fallen into my little trap. I did not come close to quoting only Robert Kennedy I really almost quoted George Bernard Shaw because Robert Kennedy actually paraphrased George Bernard Shaw’s famous quote when he delivered his famous quote...

Ø Kennedy: Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not...Robert Kennedy, June 28, 1963.

Ø Shaw: You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'...from George Bernard Shaw’s play Back to Methuselah (1921).

I’m done blogging this blog because I am too confused to go on.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Fella’s Chuckle Time...Henry Ford was being criticized because he was not building cars that people wanted and his retort was, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”.