Advertisement can only sell something that people want. If we swapped all video game advertising with Math Olympiad advertising, we both still know which one is going to be much more popular. Games with zero marketing budgets have no problem selling millions of copies.
>Many women would disagree with you on the "male" part.
And any woman with a professional job would disagree.
> And any woman with a professional job would disagree.
My mother is going to be 70 in a few weeks, she is a highly regarded teacher of English, and in her opinion, a lot of things have gone downhill since the 1970s, and especially since the 1990s, though obviously not all of them. So there is your counterexample.
People are complicated and stereotyping them (any woman with X) is bound to fail.
It goes without saying that there is an exception to every rule, and it's a strawman to assume that I believe otherwise. By "professional job", I should have qualified that I mean careers traditionally dominated by men (e.g. business, lawyers, doctors).
It literally did. I've probably seen tens of thousands of advertisements for games consoles, films and Netflix-style streaming services.
>from the perspective of a white male
Many women would disagree with you on the "male" part.