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Men are looking bad in plenty of ads these days. “Father Knows Best,” last week’s article in this section, by Glenn Sacks, makes a good argument for that. But we’ve gotten to the point where the “smart” women in the commercials are looking pretty bad themselves.
Take the wife in a recent cell-phone commercial who suffers in silence while her husband, like a toddler with his first toy, marvels at the fact that the phone can take pictures, which can then be IM-ed.
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