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….