Kelsey Wallace at Bitch Magazine is right, this Acer computer commercial starring Megan Fox is refreshing for its lack of sexist objectification of Fox. Too bad for the stock comedy “fat nerdy guy who can’t handle talking to women” character. The bit where Fatty Fat Fatty shakes hands with Fox and then refuses to let go is especially choice, because it’s so important to remind America that fat guys aren’t just social incompetents; we’re also sexual harassers.
(P.S. I’m also a little bugged that that Fox is all “Free the Lobsters!” at the restaurant at the start of the commercial but doesn’t mind sentient, speaking dolphins being locked up in tanks.)
The lobsters are going to be boiled alive, the dolphins are learning how to talk.
This reinforces the idea that “real” sexual harrassment is only done by losers, to “unattainable” women. (When I say “real”, I mean the kind that’s considered OK to complain about.)
Just like it’s OK for a white woman to accuse a black man of rape, but it’s not seen as “legitimate” if a poor woman accuses a white male upstanding citizen.