Superbowl Commercials

For my first self reflection blog I decided to write about a Superbowl ad that dealt with race. The first one that came to my mind was the one from E-Trade that had the Caucasian baby and the African American baby. There really was not anything bad about the commercial, and I actually think those commercials are pretty comical, but just the fact that they had the white and African American baby was pretty comical to me. It was like they had to incorporate both races so that they would not be scrutinized for only having white babies. However, they might have been trying to show that E-trade is for all races, and that anyone can apply, regardless of race. However, I did find it weird that they did not have a female baby. I kind of wonder why they chose two male babies, and not a male and female baby? Also, the white male baby seemed to be the intelligent, serious one while the African American baby was singing and trying to make the situation a little more light hearted.
Another commercial that caught my attention in regards to gender was the Pepsi Cola commercial that had all of these different clips of men getting hurt really badly, for example, having a bowling ball dropped on their head, having a piece of wood go flying through the air and hit their back. Yet, all of them said "I'm fine" after having all of these horrible things happen to them. Then at the end of the commercial it says "Men can take anything except the taste of diet cola." So i saw this as a weird thing because first of all, they did not show women at all, so are they saying women cannot take anything? Second of all, this was a DIET cola commercial, and most of the time you would think of a woman drinking a diet cola. However, this one is "Diet Pepsi Max, the first diet drink for men." I find this kind of confusing because are men not supposed to drink other diet sodas? And are they implying that women can't drink this diet drink since it's "for men?"
Overall, I was not too impressed with the Superbowl commercials this year in terms of comical ones, but for the most part they were okay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeK9Jacsq2Y

For the baby commercial fast forward to 5:21
For the diet Pepsi Max commercial fast forward to 6:21