Monday, June 29, 2009

i can be silent on this no longer

So many things are wrong with that Billie Jean King vs. Caveman tennis commercial. To wit:
  1. The score is 6-0, 6-0, 5-0. But women play to two sets. It happens in women's singles, it happens in mixed doubles. It happened when King played Bobby Rig-
*googles "Battle of the Sexes"*

*reads wikpedia article*

*curses heavens*

Okay, so the Battle of the Sexes did go to three sets. Mea culpa, Ms. King.

*reorganizes thoughts*
  1. The score is 6-0, 6-0, 5-0, but they seem to be taking an extended break, as if it were between sets. Odd game breaks are very quick, and are supposed to be for getting water or changing rackets. Here they're sitting in their chairs just chatting it up in the middle of a set.
  2. King would have been 63, 64 when this happened, and she's not exactly in great shape anymore. And she's dominating a caveman in the prime of his life? This is only possible if he has absolutely no idea what's going on. Speaking of which...
  3. The caveman agrees to play a televised, public tennis match, but apparently knows nothing (almost literally) about tennis or how to play it. He hasn't "even gotten a serve in" - so he can't perform the most basic shot in tennis. What's worse, he isn't even aware of his own failings, or the fact that he's been dominated for the entire match. It comes to him as shock that he's losing - he thought whatever it was that he was doing out there was winning him the match. This is mind-blowing to me.
  4. The caveman is also completely unaware of everything around him. Geico signs are littered across the court, and he has yet to notice a single one of them until the umpire points it out.
Apparently the stereotype about modern cavemen being just as stupid as their ancestors (in the Geico Cavemen Commercial Universe) is extremely well-founded.

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