I'd skipped past stories for a couple of days about some people being triggered by a new ad for Audis.
Since I don't like ads or Audis, I hadn't bothered to click, but as it's still going on, I thought I'd have a look. Audi have removed the ad in response to the criticism.
This is the story and the still photo used for the ad: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53648638
My first glance couldn't see what the problem with the ad was, a kid having a banana leaning on a car. Couldn't be less of a problem, I would have thought - about time a car company didn't use sex to sell.
But wait, there's more!
Lots of people have had a cry about the ad with this summing up people's problems:
And that's the stage where my mind officially boggled.
I'm picking the real pervert here is the Tweeter.
Mini skirt? It's not, and it's pretty typical of what girls that age wear. I'm damned sure I could find photos of my daughter at that age in almost exactly that outfit.
And bananas are default phallic symbols? Despite selling 143 trillion of them a year as food?
Sports car? It's a bloody station wagon! You can call it a sports wagon all you like, but no mid-life crisis bloke is going to impress the chicks with that.
It's all probably the height of cancel culture - some people with strange minds deliberately look for images that offend their sense of [/...christ knows] so it must be expunged!
And the idea that a driver wouldn't see her is nonsense. The shot clearly shows that anyone able to see over the dash would see her there.
Since I don't like ads or Audis, I hadn't bothered to click, but as it's still going on, I thought I'd have a look. Audi have removed the ad in response to the criticism.
This is the story and the still photo used for the ad: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53648638
My first glance couldn't see what the problem with the ad was, a kid having a banana leaning on a car. Couldn't be less of a problem, I would have thought - about time a car company didn't use sex to sell.
But wait, there's more!
Lots of people have had a cry about the ad with this summing up people's problems:
Quote:
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"Let's add it up: Red=eroticism, sports car=substitute for potency, animal print mini-skirt=sex appeal, banana=phallic symbol. But sure this is all just accidental..." |
I'm picking the real pervert here is the Tweeter.
Mini skirt? It's not, and it's pretty typical of what girls that age wear. I'm damned sure I could find photos of my daughter at that age in almost exactly that outfit.
And bananas are default phallic symbols? Despite selling 143 trillion of them a year as food?
Sports car? It's a bloody station wagon! You can call it a sports wagon all you like, but no mid-life crisis bloke is going to impress the chicks with that.
It's all probably the height of cancel culture - some people with strange minds deliberately look for images that offend their sense of [/...christ knows] so it must be expunged!
And the idea that a driver wouldn't see her is nonsense. The shot clearly shows that anyone able to see over the dash would see her there.
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/31lx6Qy
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