I find it offensive when people are offended. On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Dave Paris wrote:
> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
