LEAVE IT TO BETTY
A popular cereal commercial–popular to Betty Crocker at least–depicts a husband and wife with their son. The father and his son are sitting at the breakfast table and are eating some Betty Crocker brand cinnamon cereal while the woman looks like she is getting ready to leave for work. In the first version of the commercial the woman tells her husband that Betty Crocker cereals are for “men like you” who want a good breakfast and “women like me who have a life.” It was not long until that commercial was changed. In the second version of that commercial the woman says that Betty Crocker cereals are for “men like you” who want a good breakfast and “women like me who leave it to Betty.” Does that mean Betty Crocker decided that women who stay home have lives as well? I hope it does. I wonder what made Betty Crocker change her mind? By Michael Hodgin, see also a more…
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