The one Super Bowl ad NARAL didn’t have an opinion on
Being from Chicago, I had no vested interest in last night’s Super Bowl, other than to care about the score at the end of each quarter in hopes my husband might win a chunk of his office pool (which he did!).
So I amused myself by watching the ads and reading Twitter critiques about them by the feminist pro-abortion crowd.
I thought the Nationwide ad was serious but worthwhile, although it was quickly and summarily excoriated by the rest of the world as possibly “the worst Super Bowl ad ever,” which ”sucked the mood out of the game and was generally crappy.”
I didn’t see the ad that way. I saw it as as an important reminder to parents, although I do see how families who have lost children in home accidents could have been traumatized.
Here’s the ad, in case you don’t know what I’m talking about….
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Perhaps I wasn’t shocked because a dominant pro-life theme in our videos and films is children who never had a future because they were aborted.
In fact, abortion is the first thing I thought of when I saw the Nationwide ad. The word “abortion” could have easily been substituted in the ad’s climax line, “I couldn’t grow up, because I died from an accident,” without the rest of the ad needing any changes whatsoever.
And I’m pretty sure the pro-abortion crowd had the same thought. At least circumstantial evidence would indicate that. Because of all the ads NARAL and other abortion advocates I follow on Twitter had an opinion on, they didn’t have an opinion on that ad. My guess is they knew the ad hit too close to home, and they knew daring to comment on it would draw pro-life blowback.
NARAL’s plan for the big game night was indeed to critique ads…
We’ll be watching the #Superbowl tonight & live-tweeting the best part – the ads! Join us w #NotBuyingIt and #MediaWeLike! #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 1, 2015
So here a small sampling of ads NARAL didn’t like:
That #SuperBowl #chevy ad was ridiculous. What kind of truck you drive doesn't define your gender or sexuality! #NotBuyingIt #SuperBowlXLIX
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 1, 2015
#NotBuyingIt: that #GameofWar ad. That outfit was NOT made for real warfare. #GetReal #SuperBowlXLIX #SuperBowl #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 1, 2015
#NotBuyingIt, @TMobile. There are so many things to use the internet for besides looking at women's bodies. #SuperBowlXLIX #SuperBowl #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 2, 2015
#NotBuyingIt, @FIATUSA: a car with a boner that turns on every woman? Weird AND offensive. #SuperBowlXLIX #SuperBowl #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 2, 2015
#MediaWeLike: the Camry ad feat a hands-on dad w/ a daughter entering the military. Smashing gender stereotypes! #SuperBowl #SuperBowlXLIX
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 2, 2015
Dear @CarlsJr: #NotBuyingIt. Your ad is sexist, offensive, and actually makes us NOT want a burger. #SuperBowl #SuperBowlXLIX #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 2, 2015
In all, NARAL tweeted on about 25 ads, some observations positive, to be fair, all centered on liberal feminist ideology.
NARAL may have had nothing to say about Nationwide’s accident ad. But we know it was paying attention, because it loved Nationwide’s other ad, tweeting twice about it…
#MediaWeLike: @mindykaling's @Nationwide commercial! Female-centric, funny, and not objectifying. #SuperBowlXLIX #SuperBowl #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 2, 2015
Also loved that @mindykaling asked for consent – Nailed it, @Nationwide. #SuperBowl #MediaWeLike #SuperBowlXLIX #SB49
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 2, 2015
Here was that ad, in case you’re interested…
I have a sixth sense about these things. I see dead aborted people in a lot of life’s scenarios, such as the Nationwide accident ad.
I think NARAL and the abortion lobby do, too.
But in their case, the death of children is no accident.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
NARAL had nothing positive to tweet about any ads with children in them??? Sometimes I think they do not know any actual women.
Feminism, as the name implies, is opposed to anything feminine. – GK Chesterton
Someone who’s been dead for nearly eighty years, making comments on feminism? Against women getting the vote was he?
He also said “The rich are the scum of the earth in every country”. How’s that one work for you?
Did naral notice the little Down’s syndrome girl shown in the nice people and family friendly McDonalds commercial???
Oh Reality… “Moderns have not the moral courage, as a rule, to avow the sincere spiritual bias behind their fads; they become insincere even about their sincerity. Most modern liberality consists of finding irreligious excuses for religious bigotry. The earlier type of bigot pretended to be more religious than he really was. The later type pretends to be less religious than he really is. He does not wear a mask of piety, but rather a mask of impiety – or, at any rate, of indifference.”
wow.. that’s crazy. I can see how it doesn’t fit into their agenda, which is materialistic mostly. Of course those are other people’s children, they would never suffer from a preventable accident be cause pro-borts are essentially elitists. And abortion is for people too stupid too have kids, irresponsible, Margaret Sanger’s “social weeds”. Can’t really tweet that can you? It’s a shade of communism, femi-nazi’s need to recognize their lack of reliance on God. That ingnorance of course is an open invitation to evil and of course, preventable accidents of kinds, abortion being the ultimate killer. Until it starts getting credit for the declining economy they won’t notice. money, money, money.
Reality says:
Someone who’s been dead for nearly eighty years, making comments on feminism? Against women getting the vote was he?
Chesterton realized that women controlled the society and its future, because women controlled the homes and families.
Chesterton like the idea of a small and trivial government which was mostly the distraction and plaything of men.
Chesterton predicted that extending the game of politics to women would result in the rapid expansion of government and its intrusion into family life. He didn’t convince anybody.
He also said “The rich are the scum of the earth in every country”. How’s that one work for you?
He’s right.
Elitists are theoretically evil, and a nuisance. Rich elitists are practically evil, and dangerous.
The more Chesterton quotes I see the less I find I can take him seriously. He may have been a literary giant but he sure had some strange ideas. 1919 Chris? Seriously? There are some people who are giants in their fields in the current age, but I don’t believe they spout supposedly profound statements of any great value or validity.
Chesterton realized that women controlled the society and its future, because women controlled the homes and families…..Chesterton predicted that extending the game of politics to women would result in the rapid expansion of government and its intrusion into family life. – I’ll take that as a yes to my question then.
He didn’t convince anybody. – now that I agree with.
Elitists are theoretically evil, and a nuisance. – how? Why? Just ‘theoretically’, not in any ‘practical’ manner? Or does your expression come from some sort of sense of inferiority?
Rich elitists are practically evil, and dangerous. – yes, those so and so republicans and their rich backers!
This is a great commercial, because the whole thing could have been done with a child conceived in rape who was aborted, instead of a child who was accidentally drowned in the bathtub. How awful to put the entire premise for legalizing abortion on the targets of rape. As if they hadn’t been dehumanized enough by exploitive third parties. The rapist is just the beggining of the raped experiences with being exploited. The fact that every posturing hero wants to use their cause to promote their own, is truly heinous.
“How awful to put the entire premise for legalizing abortion on the targets of rape.”
“The fact that every posturing hero wants to use their cause to promote their own, is truly heinous.”
Thank you.