A Delightful Holiday Greeting If You Kind Of Hate Women

[geek tragedy]

The Edelsteins, Faegenburg & Brown LLP sent out this gem:

Oh, how hilarious is that? A real knee-slapper if you’re a 5-year-old boy. And it’s 1952.

At some point in the last couple months, the all-male firm sat down, looked at a bunch of options, and made an affirmative decision that this was the message they wanted the world to associate with their firm. Well, I said “all-male,” but I forgot the “Live Chat” girl in the corner of the website waiting to talk to YOU, who is obviously some stock image of a generically attractive woman designed to further lure clients looking for a new hot little number to the party line.

In fairness, the firm has a bustling divorce practice, and if it’s interested in limiting itself to, oh, say exactly 50 percent of the market, it’s probably not going to go broke telling men going through a divorce that women are evil harpies sent from on high to undermine their masculinity.

[edhopper]

1. Yeah

that is Hi-lar-ious.
It could be worse, she could be driving, God forbid.


Fucking morons.

[pnwmom]

2. That was a Christmas card? Whoa. n/t

[geek tragedy]

3. They sent that card to women who serve as opposing counsel

in cases against them.

Including cases involving domestic violence.

[pnwmom]

7. It gets worse and worse. I hope this firm gets called out on this and the call-out goes viral. n/t

[Lunacee_2013]

9. Those women should keep this card on file.

Not sure what they would do with it, but just in case...

These guys sound like the kind of divorce lawyers that advertise on MRA websites. Ya know, the typical "is your b!tch ex-wife trying to take your money and make you support your kids?" crap.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. And it is 'fewer,' not 'less.'

[geek tragedy]

5. Well, maybe the correct usage was "less"

back in the Paleolithic era.

[Freddie]

6. Kind of?

Where are they located so I can be sure to never use their services?

[Nye Bevan]

8. Here's one to send in retaliation:

[lapislzi]

10. As a person who works in the greeting card business, I would urge you to keep in mind:

Some "creative" team had to come up with this image and peddle it en masse to corporate clients. I would be interested to know who the publishing entity behind this image is. There is also an illustrator who rendered it, who is reaping licensing fees.

Anyone who purchased the image as a representation of their firm is a moron, but if there were no (or fewer) images like this for sale, these tropes would die off slowly.