That your wife claims to be a Buddhist AND a feminist is laughable. Say to her regarding the ad:
"If the speaker brings no personal, egotistic delusions into their expression, the occasion speaks for itself, the total situation alone determines what is said or done. Thus, in the case of the Zen master (or one who is 'enlightened), what-is-said is simply what-is.
In the case of the deluded person, however, the "what-is" includes his/her excess conceptual baggage with its affective components, the deluded ideas about the nature of "self," "thing," "time," and so on that constitute the person's own particular distortion of what actually is."
Meaning, the ad is neither good nor bad. The fact that she will take a stance on this refers to her own deluded ideas, and is a reflection of 'sense of self.' Enlightenment transcends 'self.'
Tell your wife she needs to refer again to her Buddhist readings before furthering the 'ad' conversation. If her readings are truly understood, there would have been no conversation of the ad at all.
