History of Feminism

There's a stereotype about tradies that the ad's playing on. I thought a similar stereotype existed in the US? Along with the stereotype that tradies drive like maniacs and when yr waiting for them to turn up to do a job they operate on 'tradies time' which means they'll turn up when they feel like it, not when they tell you they will, many tradies aren't like that. But I worked many years with some tradies, and while many of them weren't anything like that, there were some complete sexist arseholes amongst them (me and the sole female apprentice got banned from the lunchroom after I complained about some posters they'd stuck up in there). And when they're in a group, mob mentality seemed to take over. Even my pretty intelligent and enlightened ex used to get caught up in it and try to justify to me why they treated me different coz I was a woman.

I dunno. I haven't even seen this ad on telly, and it does seem like a storm in a teacup being pushed by mainly foreigners who don't seem to get the stereotype thing. I saw the petition and I thought to myself if you want to complain about an ad, there's this place you go to where they take a serious look at ads to see if they've broken any of the rules. That'd probably make more sense than an online petition, though if Jane Weezyshoes from Arkansas, USA complains to them, I'm not sure how seriously they'd take that...