Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
OK, I read it.
Still don't see in the commercial what the op-ed author sees.
IMO, this is all about perception. What one reads into this commercial says far more about oneself than it says about the commercial. It seems clear that the writer of the op-ed is coming at this from the standpoint that this is sexist, and reads into the commercial all sorts of stuff that is not explicitly stated. Obviously, the unstated is the whole point of the commercial, and what the audience is intended to read into the ad is that a gift of a Peloton is life-affirming in some sense. This is nonsense, of course, the object itself has no moral or emotional significance, any value assigned to the object is assigned by the user and is separate from the object.
Kind of like the commercial.