Sexy ones at that.
Sexist Mintrels Advert
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Sexy ones at that.
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I see that, but don't see how that would be regarded as sexist. I don't think even the most ardent feminist would deny males and females are attracted to each other and that more people would like to be attractive.
The man in the video isn't leering over the girls, in fact he looks surprised by them.
I kinda get what you are trying to say but I just don't think the two ads are that comparable.
Obviously not, but had the man said 'nice breasts' or something, it would have been similar.
So, you've taken a poster that is exclusively shown in pub toilets only ever viewed by men to compare to a national TV ad campaign seen by everyone at all times of day?
Secondly the ad you've posted is for Organ Donation not a packet of sweets. The rules governing adverts for 'good causes' aren't the same and allow shock tactics to be used and political correctness to be overlooked.
Of course you can, but you're coming across as a typical DM reader
Please don't insult me like that. My issue is over double standards not because I'm some prudish religious type who thinks the sight of naked flesh should be banned from all media.
Fair enough, that's kind of the reasonable response I was looking for in the first place.
It wouldn't be, I see half naked, extremely sexual adverts on TV all the time and they never get taken out due to sexism, how many times I saw girls in the nickers on tv ...many..many many times.
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But there would only be double standards if we did not have sexist adverts aimed at women!
If anything, good on them for doing it
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But there would only be double standards if we did not have sexist adverts aimed at women!
If anything, good on them for doing it
Show me a modern British advert where two blokes make a cheeky comment over a women's reproductive organs before using binoculars to leer at them.
Again the advert doesn't offend me, it's a bit lame really. I just think had the genders been reversed it wouldn't have made TV.
No, absolutely not the case, if there was an ad and chances there was one where guys look or discuss a woman and use metaphors to objectify it would be aired. There are tons tons of ads for example every lynx ad that goes far worse than talking and using metaphors of bulges. Ads like whistling and complementing a girl on her bottom surely been done.
And this ad is far damn worse than 2 girls using metaphors:
The advert is not sexist. It's a (not very funny) joke which plays on your expectations. It isn't saying men are only good for xyz or whatever.
The sexist jokes you see on TV - and there are loads - have nothing to do with scantily clad people, sexual imagery or the like. The sexist adverts you see on TV reinforce traditional gender roles, or more commonly emasculate men.
The sexist jokes you see on TV - and there are loads - have nothing to do with scantily clad people, sexual imagery or the like. The sexist adverts you see on TV reinforce traditional gender roles, or more commonly emasculate men.
Give me a product you think you could advertise with that?
Short of ultra discrete panty liners I don't see a market.
Do remember that we don't advertise products any more.. we just try to associate aspirations with them.
So the advert you've requested would just be something where what you've described had a funny and unexpected outcome, or their product was associated with the modern "right on" response to that.
I don't think up adverts for a living.. but how about this? Two middle aged men, clearly in Sky Sports but without saying Sky Sports make comments about women's reproductive organs, while the third man sits with a pained expression (he will of course be the younger and better looking of the three). He gets up and walks away, in some way displaying the product being sold. The marketing speak is "Ourproduct, for the man who isn't a dick"