Not a lot of love for Chevy's 'perfect man'

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People get pretty fired up about a topless guy doing housework. Chevrolet’s ad for the 2009 Traverse shows a "perfect man" ironing his mate’s dress while planning their six-month anniversary dinner. I found it pretty vanilla, but the spot seems to have raised hackles on both sides of the gender divide. MSNBC’s Allison Linn says it’s "tacky, nonsensical and weirdly evocative of pornography." Todd at the Iced Tea & Sarcasm blog thinks it’s a blatant ripoff of the (quite safe for work) book Porn

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