Harmless fun or sexist bigotry?
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Soldato
Yeah, crap ad. No shock that it was designed, in the loosest possible terms, by the owner of the aircon company.
Soldato
Potential genius move also, no bad publicity and all that!
Soldato
They should do a follow up with 'your wife's cool, more so because she has our air con 
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More evidence that the state needs shrinking.
"There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
If people find it offensive then just don't pay more than a glance at it, this "run to mummy" or the nanny state mentality sums up the childishness of most adults today.
"There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
If people find it offensive then just don't pay more than a glance at it, this "run to mummy" or the nanny state mentality sums up the childishness of most adults today.
It's stupid, but at the same time, folk nowadays know where the limits are for the general public. Whilst I don't think it's offensive at all personally, the folk that have decided on the ad campaign should surely know that it's gonna cause an outrage from certain folk.
Man of Honour
It's obviously discriminatory against people in relationships who aren't married! Terrible! Send everyone responsible to a re-education facility immediately!
I think the ad was in poor taste and a bit sexist in isolation (if they had simultaneously run one with a man, I'd have no complaints), but some of the comments opposing it were quite deranged, e.g.
is blithering nonsense that says a lot more about how the person saying it thinks than about how other people think. There is no such "subliminal message" - that person made it up from their own mind. The problem is in their head, not anyone else's.
I think the ad was in poor taste and a bit sexist in isolation (if they had simultaneously run one with a man, I'd have no complaints), but some of the comments opposing it were quite deranged, e.g.
is blithering nonsense that says a lot more about how the person saying it thinks than about how other people think. There is no such "subliminal message" - that person made it up from their own mind. The problem is in their head, not anyone else's.
Soldato
OMG I'm soooo offended 
Welcome to 2019.
Welcome to 2019.
Soldato
They are Nottingham based and that advertising billboard is just up the road from us. Anyway I'm so offended by this I've sent them an email....asking for a quote for air-conditioning.
The BBC article states this:
"A new rule came into force last month prohibiting harmful gender stereotypes in adverts, following a review of gender stereotyping by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)."
I get that it is a gender stereotype of sorts, but is it really a harmful one? I have noticed now that adverts and other media catered towards women featuring attractive men don't get any of this sort of criticism at all. I don't care either way to be honest, but I hate the double standards. If they are going to come out with this rubbish then it should be done across the board not just to shut the militant feminists up when they moan about something.
"A new rule came into force last month prohibiting harmful gender stereotypes in adverts, following a review of gender stereotyping by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)."
I get that it is a gender stereotype of sorts, but is it really a harmful one? I have noticed now that adverts and other media catered towards women featuring attractive men don't get any of this sort of criticism at all. I don't care either way to be honest, but I hate the double standards. If they are going to come out with this rubbish then it should be done across the board not just to shut the militant feminists up when they moan about something.
Have they? A few people complained. I'm sure the vast majority , like myself, wouldn't have given it a second thought.
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I'm married to a woman AND read BBC news. Amazing eh.