Writing on Advertising Age today, Bob Garfield, returning from vacation on the Adriatic coast “where hordes of young Eastern European women sashayed to and fro in overflowing bikinis and high heels” reducing him to “a slack jawed cliché of arrested adolescence,” wonders if the Heineken DraughtKeg ad is the most sexist beer ad ever created.
After wading through Garfield’s extensive hyperbole and detailed analysis of this commercial, he concludes, writing, “Berlin Cameron United has essentially animated the “perfect woman” joke. Whether intentionally or out of pure animal instinct uncivilized by the most basic notion of respect, they have reduced half the world to a man-servicing beer tap.”
Fair enough but we wonder if women sometimes inadvertently play right into this girl-as-boy-toy perception as this girl seemingly does here becoming a keg stand play-thing for a couple of guys who, yes, did run out and buy the new Heineken Draught Keg. Innocuous college antics? Or precursor to sexism?
