Perspectives on Advertising

I hate commercials. Plain and simple. As soon as the show I'm watching goes to commercial, I flip to a different channel that does not have commercials at that moment. The thing that really makes me angry is when there is commercials on almost every channel at the same time. I feel like the shows on television could take up about half as much time if there were no commercials to interrupt it. I really hate watching movies on television because you miss parts of the movie. If there were no commercials, maybe they could play the whole movie in the amount of time allotted. There is one commercial that I do like, however. I am not positive, but I think it is one of those commercials that tries to encourage people to exercise, and there is this older guy dancing around an office. I love the song, it cracks me up when they say, "Let me see ya MOVE sucka". It gets me every time.
I am also very annoyed with print advertisements. I subscribe to Cosmopolitan magazine. As I flip through it, all I seem to see is advertisements. The magazine would be about five pages without all the advertisements in it. I like to read the articles in it, but I hate having to flip through all the ads to get to the actual content of the magazine. I realize that companies need some way to spread knowledge of their product, but maybe there should be a limit on how many ads can be in one magazine.
Another thing I hate about advertising is the way they try to sell products. I feel like a lot of advertisements degrade women. Alcohol ads are the worst at this. They use women's bodies and sex to sell everything. It makes me sad that after all this time, women still allow themselves to be looked at this way.
Advertising is an important industry to companies trying to get a product noticed. However, the way they go about trying to sell their product just bothers me. I think the way they bombard us with thousands of ads everyday is ridiculous, and actually probably turns more people off. I know when I have seen the same commercial over and over, it makes me hate the product more than want to buy it.