Gender Stereotypes In Advertising

I started to watch the Simpsons at nine pm on Sunday night. The date of said watched show was May 29, 2011. The seventeen commercials that were shown were mixed and did not have a preference. The first commercial that was shown was a Living Spaces Memorial day savings on mattress. The next one was Time Warner Cable that was selling high speed internet. A car commercial about a Ram truck 1500 came soon after. Chase came out with a commercial talking about their new thank you card. The cell phone unleashed commercial came out with it being sold at Verizon and Wal-Mart. Metro pcs comes out with its family plan. Another car commercial, this time about the Mazda. Jcpenny comes out with its own commercial for a mattress sell on Memorial Day. A
Another Memorial Day event special on a 2012 cc sports VW. Dell Taco once again is shown but this it is talking about its tacos and how big and cheap they are. Carls Jr is the last commercial shown that depicts how the way they made them and sell their burgers are. After watching all these commercials I could see that there was some gender specific commercial but over all these commercials were mixed to all gender types. However we can see that these commercials are for the ages of 18 to 30 since all those shown in the commercial were young individuals and most of the commercials were either a working man seen or electronics that usually only the younger generation is savvy towards too. Also many of the commercials like the chase and time warner are shown to have a couple that is married and married couples that are married are usually around their thirties. The Time Warner Cable commercial shows a couple where the wife is pregnant and the husband is doing everything he can to make her happy. All this is going on while the commercial talks about the advantages of having Time Warner’s dvr. I can see they try to appeal to pregnant women and those that are planning on getting pregnant to get their product so their life can become easier to an