Monday, June 14, 2010

Sprint is pissing me off

I'm going to assume you've seen this Sprint commercial. If not, all you need to see is in this screen shot:



"Hi, I'm smart, confident woman of vague ethnicity. See the dumbass white boy sitting next to me? He fucked up big time. Fortunately, Sprint is here to save his ass. Look, the boss isn't going to fire me if something goes wrong. He might have a discrimination lawsuit on his hands. Or maybe not. It's hard to tell because my ethnicity is so vague. I could be half white & half black. I could be half Asian and half white. I could be 3/4 Puerto Rican and 1/4 Floridan Panhandle Redneck. Who the fuck knows? The point is, I'm definitely a woman, and get Sprint, because it will almost make up for the natural incompetence you honkies are pretty much born with."

I know white males are the last safe bastion of making-fun-of, because we secretly run the world with our white male cabal, but seriously, every time I see this commercial I get pissed off. The boss is like, thank fucking Christ I hired this vaguely ethnic chick, because the white boy is just here for looks. Someone's got to do the actual work around here.

Let me tell you, being a white guy isn't easy. First of all, the other white guys barely let me run any of the world. I'm like a sub-peon 3rd class, which means I get to be the mastermind of traffic signals in Thermopolis, Wyoming. That's it. I'll never get to run Australia or anything cool. At best, I might have control of a draw bridge somewhere.

What I'm getting at is, enough with the white-guy bashing, Sprint. Or if it has to be a white guy, at least make him Zach Galifianakis. That way we at least know he's in on the joke.

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