Nah .. seeing middle-aged homely folk in an ad would offend me. ;) To quote Suicidal Tendencies: "And if I offended you, oh I'm sorry. But maybe you need to be offended. But here's my apology ..and one more thing, fuck you."
Someone is offended someway, somehow, by nearly everything. Some people offend me by consuming valuable oxygen the rest of us could use. ;-) Paul M Moriarty wrote: > If ads went non-offensive to everybody, the only people you'd see in > ads would be homely middle-aged folk. That'd sell. > > Good advertising is supposed to generate an emotional response. > > > On Jan 10, 2010, at 9:52 AM, der Mouse wrote: > >>> [You] may not be [her] first... >>> http://gevron.livejournal.com/37645.html >> I agree with you that it's well-done. (I'm not sure I'd go as far >> as "brilliant", but at worst it's a small exaggeration.) >> >> But I also agree with your detractors that it is perpetuative of >> sexism and offensive in at least a few ways. >> >> /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X >> Against HTML >> [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 >> 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B >> _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc >> security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec >> is a public and open mailing list. > > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security > discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is > a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
