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February 3, 2008
Mistress Mandy
Do you guys get the commercials about the cable company parental-control tools? Where the concerned parents say they enjoy the "compelling" TV but that they can't let their kids see it so they're going to block the characters?
The one I'm talking about (Mistress Mandy Gets Blocked) features a fictional dominatrix named Mistress Mandy. She is dressed in a lovely black vinyl catsuit and stiletto boots. She's holding a whip.
What I dislike a lot is the moment when she angrily shouts "Mistress Mandy wants to punish you!"
Nope. Off by a mile. In a scene, it is always all about what the Domme or top wants anyway. This is implicit and would never need to be stated. Next, I don't think she would betray anger or even that her subject wielded sufficient leverage to affect her emotionally. So the writers got this really wrong, or, more likely, the suits didn't (wouldn't?) get it.
I think she she would have calmly stated they would be punished. Or, she would simply and suddenly strike with the whip, because it pleased her. Then she would laugh at the pain.
It is cute at the end of the commercial when the wife comments that she thinks Mistress Mandy's boots are lovely.
[+] Posted by Sinner, who was transgressing at the time (February 3, 2008 12:46 PM) by seeing evil. [+]
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On this cloudy day, you bring a smile to my face.
Thank you.
Are you serious? I was too busy trying to figure out who was playing Mistress Mandy, and enjoying the humor in the commercial to dissect the Dom/Sub cultural underbelly. I dont think they were going for subversive or subcultural accuracy. The point was conveyed... and ultimately thats the goal of any commercial.