“Commercials” Articles

Single mothers may be both soft and strong for their kids, but that’s not the same thing as saying they are both mother and father.

One series of ads—and, yes, the Twitter response to it—gave me a bit of hope. I’m talking, of course, about the “Super Bowl Babies” ad series.

None of these commercials are telling the whole truth, but some of them are telling some truth. Others are just outright lies. We thought we’d sort through the nonsense and get down to reality.

Let’s not fall into the trap of believing that the moment technology is involved, we become inherently anti-social, or that “instantaneous mediated nostalgia” and “real-life human connection” are mutually exclusive.

This year’s super-expensive Super Bowl commercials paint a bleak picture of what it means to be a man… except for one.