Comments on: Reebok Reduces Women To Tits And Ass

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:22:35 +0000

Here is my only problem with this commercial… which really isn’t the commercials fault… but as a breastfeeding mother we often get shamed into covering up while we feed our babies because ACK god forbid someone see us nurse WHAT IF you can see our portion our breast or a teeny bit of nipple. OH NO! We get told how disgusting it is and how offensive we are. Yet here I am watching Ellen, on NBC at 3pm and WAY more boob than you’d see of me breastfeeding is in my face.

I get it that sex sells… fine whatever. But I just hate the double standard of the site of a boob.

p.s. I don’t think the breasts in the commercial should be jealous of her butt, her breasts are much nicer than her ass.

By: erin

erin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:36:58 +0000

i find the commercial hilarious, as a 20something college educated single mother. i find nothing wrong with it. will i buy shoes because of it, maybe, it is because boobs are talking to each other, no, is it because i walk a lot, yet rarely have time to go to the gym, but want to still be tone, yes.. look at it for what it is, not what you want it to be… talking boobs are a tad creepy, but you are taking life too seriously. i think breast feeding is creepy! that’s objectifying women, you are not a women, you are a feeding receptacle. that road goes both ways. as for the “competing with yourself” line.. uh yes, that’s why we are not all 500lb bed ridden homebodies. that is why the government forces us to work out and be fit.. again, same principal, the road goes both ways.. you can not apply principal to whatever suits you best..
if women are not objects. stop breast feeding.
if boobs are gross, then put them allll away.
if you don’t like companies that use tone bodies to sell their products.. move to the forest and eat twigs and berries, and bath in the lake, because in case you haven’t noticed. it happens, everywhere, all day, with everythinggg.
get on or get off the wagon, you cant just complain when it suits you, all in or all out.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:06:27 +0000

I dislike this commercial and wrote an e-mail to Reebok. It was dismissed, so please sign this petition and shoe Reebok we will not let them objectify women!

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/boycottreebokshoes

By: Big Al

Big Al — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:48:24 +0000

Besides, chsw is right. Christmas is coming.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:46:14 +0000

Many a dollar has been dropped on things to improve the appearance of boobs and bottoms by women for years. Whole industries are made from that very proposition. That Reebok is right up from about what they are selling is just a sign of the times I suppose… Creepy? To me yeah, but I’m getting older… a lot of modern life is creepy to me now.

By: mizzenthrope

mizzenthrope — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:34:27 +0000

I bought my wife a pair. Advertising worked, I’d say.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:02:52 +0000

On the other hand, by giving the breasts voices, it humanizes them. Now I’ll think twice before fondling random breasts, as that would be muffling their voices and taking away their personhood. Thanks, Reebok, for opening my eyes!

Really, the only thing that makes this ad creepy is that it does give the breasts voices. Usually they just bounce around in ads for sportswear, or they get very well… positioned such as those in the ads I see in yoga magazines.

The additional creep factor is the competitiveness. Implying that the ass is now getting all the attention? I guess this is for the woman who got a too-large boob job and now seems topheavy so she needs to enhance her buttocks. Consumerism will forever save us from yesterday’s anxiety and create tomorrow’s, I guess.

By: carolinagirl

carolinagirl — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:19:39 +0000

Makes you really appreciate the Dove ads … and message http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

By: chsw

chsw — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:18:56 +0000

Ladies – You are mistakenly presuming that Reebok was really marketing shoes to women in this ad.

By: filioscotia

filioscotia — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:54 +0000

I’m hazarding a guess that this commercial is shown only on the sports networks. It’s generally agreed that those networks appeal to the 18 to 30 demographic, and the average viewer’s IQ is somewhat lower. A few years ago I heard a radio consultant label that demographic group as “Stupid Young Men 18 to 30.”

I appreciate shapely boobs and butts as much as the next guy, but it’s hard to believe anybody with a brain would think women would respond to something as trashy as this.

But, c’est la vie. Whatever trips your trigger. I don’t think I’ll be buying Reebok goods anymore.

As for the usual suspects turning out to denounce this commercial, I’ve come up with the perfect acronym for them.

Perpetually Offended and Outraged Persons.
POOPERS.