Just watched a commercial for Wawa. In the commercial a family runs out of milk on Christmas Eve. The father runs out to Wawa to get milk and coffee, while the mother stays home and puts together a bike for their son. - Kotaku In Action 2

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Just watched a commercial for Wawa. In the commercial a family runs out of milk on Christmas Eve. The father runs out to Wawa to get milk and coffee, while the mother stays home and puts together a bike for their son.

posted 215 days ago by Mpetey123 215 days ago by Mpetey123 +101 / -0

Some might not see this as a big deal, and perhaps it's not, but to me toy construction has always been a dad activity. I fully believe they intentionally made the mom the builder to subvert the traditional gender roles.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 3 points 215 days ago +3 / -0

They think grocery shopping is beneath them and demeaning, they subsist almost entirely on door dash, so they gave that to the dad and let mom prove she's (statistically highly improbably) better at mechanical problem solving than the dad.

Yeah, it's a way of thinking that's like "I can conceptualize it so it's probably real for somebody, therefore they need my help to be represented and feel good about themselves!"

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