Yeah, I'm posty today

[athenaltena]

Have a random commercial that I saw last night. It made my jaw drop.

Sadly enough, the thing that struck me most is that the guy's headphones are turned up way too loud. As in, if they're that loud you're probably giving yourself hearing loss. I do the "if you can hear anything when you hold them at arm's length it's too loud" rule with mine, but too many times a day someone walks by me with their music turned up loud enough for me to hear, sometimes to the point that I can make out the lyrics. No no no no no. It's obnoxious to everyone else and it's going to make you go deaf, so in 20 years I'll be interested in the rates of hearing loss among my generation. Commercials like this Do. Not. Help. since it normalizes the behavior.

Oh yeah, and the booty shaking and objectification. But unfortunately I'm used to seeing stuff like that so the headphone thing is actually more shocking. Yeah.

Comments

[ques-nova.livejournal.com]

If they did it with the volume at a normal level, the commercial wouldn't have had the same impact. Because we could hear the difference as well, it made a point. Chances are, like most tv, the sound was added in afterward so he wasn't actually going deaf to record a commercial. I definitely get your point though. My dad didn't do that with headphones but always did with the music in his car and now he's half deaf.