Hells yeh!! We've had one thats been running in Aussie for a coupla years now. Its an ad for "Crim Safe" shutters and its owned by Daddy and his daughter Kim. Daddy is married but you rarely hear him refer to his wife. Its always "my daughter, Kim..". I cringe when I hear it and change the channel or station.

I would NEVER buy any products of this moron cuz he just screams disney dad to me. I find it nauseating to be honest.

I also am noticing it in movies..all about daddys and daughters..think Interstellar..yuk.

I have also noticed it, really sick of the teapot one; much of the time in step situations guilt conditioned daddeeeees can be tooooooo present in their lives and they turn out to be rotten, social, jealous ingrates.

"Tip me over and pour me out."..LOL.

And who does Trump talk about and is seen with more, his wife or his daughter Ivanka?

from my side of Mars.... only saw one add with daddy and Daughter but mum was there as well... Vehicle insurance one, Dad's insurance and daughter bumped her car.....

other advertisements, mostly mother and children, regardless gender, usually mixed, or mother, father and children...

never seen a Daddy Daughter with only those 2 in it......

oh wait there was a food place add where the boy took the girl out for something to eat and the father watched from another table.... but the focus was more on the boy being nervous... kids where about 13/14.. first date sort of thing.

maybe it's because in African culture it's men on the one side and woman on the other side...

I have noticed the same thing in the past 6+ years I have lived as an Expat. It is just as prevalent in the MENA region countries I have lived and worked in(Qatar, KSA, Bahrain, Morocco, UAE, etc...).

I think in this environment it is a great thing. Historically much more social value has been attached to sons. That is starting to change... ever so slowly.

I agree with you Rags that historically much more social value has been attached to sons and perhaps in some ways it is good to see dads and daughters hanging out.

However, about 15 years ago, I knew when I started seeing little pink tops for girls with the words "little princess" or daddy's little princess printed on them, I suspected we were headed for trouble. I think the problem is this implies a sense of entitlement to children. If there were little blue T-shirts for boys with "little King" printed on them, I'd be thinking the same thing.

I see it as part of the child-centric trend in the US. Children are viewed more-so as adults and adults as more-so being controlled by their children. I agree that teapot one is over the top, but telling. Daddy dresses up with a princess crown and pink for his girls teapot party, and there is also the laundry commercial where dad lets his daughter run around in her pretty princess outfit all week long, only giving her a cowboy outfit to wear one day a week when he does laundry.

Sweet in some ways, but also pushing the mini-wife scenario for the future, maybe? I'm a baby boomer, but it is amazing to me how off-culture this new millennial working environment is for me: Ill-trained or poorly educated young'ish managers using Gestapo-like tactics to keep their employees in line. Thank God I only have a few years left in the work market. But, like these bizarre commercials implying girls in particular are little princesses, kind'a makes you wonder what the future holds.

I have noticed this too, and I find it pretty weird. But I also find it extremely weird when dads get jealous of their daughter's boyfriends or make comments about "getting a shotgun" for when their daughters get older. Like your daughter is NOT your property and to feel threatened of a boyfriend or the idea of your daughter having sex to the point where you make jokes about killing boys she hangs out with, is CREEPY as hell to me.

But maybe that's just me. Some dads need to chill out and remember their daughter(s) are their own people. Focus on protecting and taking care of your wife.

I have noticed this too, and I find it pretty weird. But I also find it extremely weird when dads get jealous of their daughter's boyfriends or make comments about "getting a shotgun" for when their daughters get older. Like your daughter is NOT your property and to feel threatened of a boyfriend or the idea of your daughter having sex to the point where you make jokes about killing boys she hangs out with, is CREEPY as hell to me.

But maybe that's just me. Some dads need to chill out and remember their daughter(s) are their own people. Focus on protecting and taking care of your wife.

What really bothers me about the 'princess' trend is that it sends a message to society that 'little princesses' must be always feminine and must be protected by Dad. I am so siick of the way TV depicts society and the unrealistic expectations it places on regular human being like me.

The problem with these commercials is that it delivers a message to society that all little girls must be princesses. These commercials show their roles in society as being ultra-feminine. This tells them they have a certain place in society, not striving to have a job like Daddy or even become President when they grow up because that's just not feminine, and society would not approve. I'd like to see one commercial where a Dad is at his daughter's sports event, that he is urging her on to succeed in the same playing field as his sons.

I also find it alarming how TV has caused society to have unrealistic expectations about how real life is. No one on TV is poor or even middle class. Big houses, new cars. Young people are depicted in successful jobs without any education or sacrifice - they are all good looking. Older people are all disabled or look 40 years younger than they really are. Everybody is skinny. All Mothers (grown women over 40) are non-existent. All Dads must treat their daughters like princesses and the dads must comply with her requests. Kids don't help with chores and they are entitled. All SM's are like Mrs. Brady, they are always sweet and smiling. Everybody has a maid. It is entirely plausible for an actor / rich man to become President, the SM to hide away in an apartment, and his daughter take over as first lady.

Recently I found out the average lifespan for a woman in the U.S. is 86. I have a little more than 16 years of watching the drama play out. I am trying to stay positive but am hoping like hell that society will wake up. Sorry for jumping on the soap box.

A while ago - perhaps 2 years, I thought it was cute, when SD10(almost 11), then 9 would hang on daddy, follow him around, talk in a baby-voice, and ask him all kinds of questions, and he had purchased one of those t-shirts that said something like "My Heart belongs to Daddy".

No I want to gag. Shes a sweet kid to me, but she is getting older now and that kind of behavior is not good at all!!! The mini-girlfriend - yuck. I don't watch television, just movies on my digistream. No commercials. Occasionally I see cable stuff, but haven't seen all these "princess ads". Luckily.

One that makes me gag is the cell phone commercial where the husband and the daughter are sitting on the couch together with the wife in the background silently doing dishes and he calls over his shoulder 'Honey, we have unlimited internet, what shall we do?"
The daughter answers, rattling off a list of what she wants to do with it. He pulls out her own cell phone, she squeals, hugs and rocks with him on the couch. :sick:

10 years ago this would not have bothered me, but after 5 years of having a 30 something SD trying to act like the "other woman" every chance she gets, my gag reflex has been all too familiar.

Case in point: I gave DH his own cellphone as a birthday gift, and that night at the party SD grabs it and snoops all over it, despite DH's objections. The next morning she leaves an early text message saying "Thanks for last night, you might want to put a password on your new cell phone in case you set it down or something". :sick:

Guess what Dear SD. We are a married couple and we don't have secrets from each other. He can scroll through mine and I can scroll through his any tine I feel like it. You don't have that relationship.

Any time I see an ad where a kid (or kids) jump into their parents beds and everyone happily wakes up.

WTF are they smoking and how can I get me some.

I used to like a Cheerios commercial where the mothers and their small children were dancing in their living room.

The new Cheerios commercial has men and their pre/ teenage daughters dancing in the living room, just the two of them. I never danced with my sons until the mother/son dance at their weddings, and I was a ballroom dancer for 10 years.

Glad somebody mentioned Interstellar. I loved that movie......except for the bizarre obsession with the father daughter relationship and the ghettoizing of the son.

I had theorized this trend started with the honorable intention of counter balancing the many centuries-long human obsession with sons but it has completely knocked the pendulum over and off the table and rolling down the floor into the soggy drain.

Feminism or promoting of daughters was never meant to dehumanize others. We do not need daughters aggrandized. We need children of both sexes to be treated as HUMANS...and as CHILDREN!