Nobody was outraged. That's what I'm pointing out. Someone criticizing something on twitter doesn't mean they are outraged. The examples the article uses to show outrage are three tweets. The contents of which I would describe as mild criticism at worst. Wow so much outrage. How can we as a society hope to succeed if we let such anger become commonplace? Truly this is the beginning of the end of mankind.
As for your other point. Something being commonplace doesn't mean that depicting it isn't sexist when that creates societal expectations that people are supposed to act that way in the first place. We can go back to the fifties and find all kinds of deplorable advertisements that we would regard as sexist and racist. Like the many many advertisements about women driving their husbands car and wrecking it because women can't drive amirite fellas? And hey, women did crash cars! That means those advertisements weren't sexist because it was a thing that happened.
Advertisements (media in general) use and enforce societal expectations which can be harmful and that's why criticism of them should be dismissed out of hand.
Great post. I really want to post something from Jean Kilbourne, but I know it won't be watched or read.