tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25832460520829072852025-08-12T21:06:51.155-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583246052082907285.post-13015004412794817662012-06-15T22:21:00.000-07:002012-06-15T22:21:36.902-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Dads complain. Huggies listens.<br /> <br /> The diaper company changed its “Have Dad Put Huggies To The Test” campaign after the controversial commercials depicting dads as inattentive caregivers sparked outrage — among dads.<br /> <br /> Last week, Huggies posted several videos to their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/huggies" title="Huggies Facebook Page">Facebook page</a> as a part of a campaign “to demonstrate the performance of our Huggies diapers and baby wipes in real life situations.”<br /> The commercials showed dads so consumed by sports on TV that they neglected to tend to the full diapers on their babies.<br /> <br /> In the ads, a voice-over explains that the company put the diapers to the test “to prove that Huggies diapers and wipes can handle anything.”<br /> <br /> But some dads saw things differently. ”Dads were being put to the test, not the diapers,” said Chris Routly, a full-time stay-at-home father from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. “I was disappointed; they tried to do right by dads, but played up the stereotype while claiming to celebrate fatherhood.”<br /> <br /> Routly, the father of two sons, ages 1 and 3, decided to express his disappointment with Kimberly-Clark, maker of Huggies, on his blog, “<a href="http://www.daddydoctrines.com/" title="The Daddy Doctrine">The Daddy Doctrine</a>s.”</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583246052082907285.post-53367663675474206572010-09-30T22:39:00.001-07:002012-06-19T01:55:31.175-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Congratulations to Charter Communications for stopping the "white man bashing" in their TV commercials.<br /> <br /> They were one of the worst offenders, but now they are producing the most creative, uplifting and inspiring commercials on the air!&nbsp; Repeated emails to Charter corporate headquarters discussing a possible class action suit for illegal stereotyping of white men seems to have played a role in this total reversal of their advertising policy!<br /> <br /> Hopefully the other corporations will follow their lead and stop this outrageous attack on white men!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com35