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The Most Sexist Advertising Slogans Of All Time
An Australian camping company has come under fire for painting insulting, misogynistic, and racist slogans on its fleet of vans.
Wicked Campervans, a budget travel option marketed toward tourists looking to explore Australia on the cheap, boasts brightly colored vans outfitted with loud graffiti artwork. Its slogans are far less, cheerful, however:
In every princess, theres a little slut who wants to try it just once
A wife: an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done
Fat girls are harder to kidnap
To all virgins: Thanks for nothing
A blowjob is a great last minute gift!
I wouldnt trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesnt die!
Save the whales, harpoon a Jap
Paula Orbea, a Sydney high school teacher, became horrified when her 11-year-old daughter came home from a trip and started quoting the messages painted on the vans. She kicked off a Change.org petition calling on company founder John Webb to [e]liminate misogynistic and degrading slogans and imagery, a push that has attracted more than 18,000 supporters.
My daughter was upset by this because she felt, as a girl, that the slogan was refering to her and it made her fear being perceived that way especially by someone she may cross paths with who may agree with that perspective, the petition states. Slogans such as this ring too familiar to real life attrocities, such as the recent discovery of Rolf Harriss sexual assaults; enacting on a girl as young as eight.
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http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/07/13/3459582/the-most-sexist-advertising-slogans-of-all-time/
An Australian camping company has come under fire for painting insulting, misogynistic, and racist slogans on its fleet of vans.
Wicked Campervans, a budget travel option marketed toward tourists looking to explore Australia on the cheap, boasts brightly colored vans outfitted with loud graffiti artwork. Its slogans are far less, cheerful, however:
In every princess, theres a little slut who wants to try it just once
A wife: an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done
Fat girls are harder to kidnap
To all virgins: Thanks for nothing
A blowjob is a great last minute gift!
I wouldnt trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesnt die!
Save the whales, harpoon a Jap
Paula Orbea, a Sydney high school teacher, became horrified when her 11-year-old daughter came home from a trip and started quoting the messages painted on the vans. She kicked off a Change.org petition calling on company founder John Webb to [e]liminate misogynistic and degrading slogans and imagery, a push that has attracted more than 18,000 supporters.
My daughter was upset by this because she felt, as a girl, that the slogan was refering to her and it made her fear being perceived that way especially by someone she may cross paths with who may agree with that perspective, the petition states. Slogans such as this ring too familiar to real life attrocities, such as the recent discovery of Rolf Harriss sexual assaults; enacting on a girl as young as eight.
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http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/07/13/3459582/the-most-sexist-advertising-slogans-of-all-time/
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You can't make this shit up....**facepalm** (Original Post)
one_voice
Jul 2014
OP
Who would ever patronize a business like that? Who would get into a van like that?
Squinch
Jul 2014
#1
My gay cousin and his partner would. They really have something against women. nt
kelliekat44
Jul 2014
#10
Squinch
(50,774 posts)1. Who would ever patronize a business like that? Who would get into a van like that?
How was this company not out of business the first day it put those things on the road?
alp227
(31,962 posts)5. I know. Ignorant backwards thinkers who happen to LOOOOOVE the outdoors.
They give all outdoors lovers a bad name.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)8. I have no idea how they're still in business...
it does boggle the mind.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)10. My gay cousin and his partner would. They really have something against women. nt
JHB
(37,132 posts)2. Has he licensed use of "Pinky" for his business? My guess would be "no"
Perhaps letting the copyright holders know. That would be Warner Bros. and/or Steven Spielberg.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)3. As an Australian, I'm posting this with my mouth open...
..., as if I just saw a huge train wreck.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)4. OMG!
Initech
(99,915 posts)6. This is worthy of a triple facepalm:
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)7. Or maybe even a sextuple ...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)11. You can take a person out of gutter
But you can't take the gutter out of a person. It's actually good advertising for those who want to avoid such businesses. I say let them hang themselves.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)12. I am convinced that the majority...
of my sex never get past the mental age of 12.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)13. And never got laid
Guys who think like this never get past the first pickup line. Contempt is not very attractive.
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)14. No excuse, no justification.