Mixed Emotions About T-Mobile ‘Creepy Dad’ Ad
I have mixed emotions about the T-Mobile “Creepy Dad” commercial. On one hand, it’s nice to see a father portrayed as being caring, protective and involved, like most dads are. It also shows a strong father-daughter bond.
On the other hand, it promotes the idea that teenage boys are a hazard to teenage girls. There’s some truth to this, but there’s some truth to just the opposite, too.
A teenage girl can falsely accuse a boy of assault or rape and set him up for vigilante retribution, expulsion, or criminal prosecution. She can decide she wants a baby and put him on the hook for 18 years of child support. Yes, this is something of a paranoid and extreme interpretation, because only a small percentage of girls would do that to a boy. On the other hand, only a small percentage of boys would harm or assault a girl, too.
Perhaps it’s just something innate in fathers. The other day I allowed my neighbor Julio, who has a girl my daughter’s age, to take my daughter with his family to see the Christmas lights up on the windy roads at Griffith Park late at night, a very unusual move for me. Before they left, I put my arm around him and said, “Julio, I love you but if my little girl doesn’t come back safe and sound, you’d probably be safer not coming back at all.” He nodded and said, “I have a daughter. I understand completely.”
To watch the ad, click here or see below. Thanks to Robert, a reader, for sending it to me.
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December 5th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
I don’t think that teenage girls are naturally driven by the urge to falsely incriminate. Teenage boys, on the other hand are naturally driven by the urge to have sex. And while we all have self control in civilized society, there’s allot more suppression among the teenage boy camp to *not rape, than there is among the teenage girl camp to *not go about falsely incriminating.
December 6th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Correct, girls (nor anyone else for that matter) has a “natural” urge to make false statements against anyone – they are TAUGHT to do so.
As for teenage boys being the only one’s with an “urge to have sex”, the girls are right there with them having those same urges. It’s called PUBERITY and it happens to EVERYONE.
And this little snipplet of drivel.. “..more suppression among the teenage boy camp to *not rape..” Since when do young boys feel the need to rape? Rape is a a serious crime and one hell of an eccusation to make against any one, let alone and entire gender of younsters!
Can you prove any of your claims that boys have to supress the urge to rape??
Controling one’s self is a LEARNED trait. It is LEARNED from one’s parents and authority figures. It is NOT some primal urge that needs to be “surpressed”.
And like the ability to control on’es self, the act of falsely incriminating another person is also a LEARNED trait.
It is LEARNED by reading/witnessing/watching/etc.. from those that have done it to others. And it is oftimes used as a method of revenge by women/girls against men/boys. Why? Because it requires nothing of evidence or substance to make such a claim against them, yet it takes everything to prove otherwise.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:24 am
I had a false allegation made against me when I was 7, by 7 y/o girl (I had rescued another girl’s glove off the top of the school playground toilet block wall). They sure learn early. I wonder who taught her or what examples she had learned from. I don’t know any chaps who have raped.