Danish tourism ad with "blond woman cradling a dark-skinned infant" pulled

[Liberal_in_LA]

Danish tourism ad pulled from Web for promiscuity
By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

(09-15) 08:51 PDT COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) --

Denmark's tourism agency has removed an advertisement from YouTube after complaints that it promoted promiscuity in the liberal Scandinavian country.

The video clip, nearly 3 minutes long, shows a young, blond woman cradling a dark-skinned infant called "August" and saying he is the result of a brief fling with a foreign tourist.

Speaking English in the video, she says she is "trying to find August's father" through Google's YouTube site. Danish TV2 has clarified that the scene was staged and the woman is an actress.

Since being posted Thursday by VisitDenmark, the ad received more than 800,000 hits on YouTube. VisitDenmark removed the clip Monday, but it can be still viewed as it has been copied and posted elsewhere on the Internet.

Sociologist Karen Sjoerup said the ad suggested "you can lure fast, blonde Danish women home without a condom."


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[aquart]

1. What were they thinking?

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. The ad is wrong on so many levels. OMG.

racist, sexist, stupid,

[BlooInBloo]

17. Looks perfectly clear what they were - and still are - thinking to me.

[BlooInBloo]

18. Looks perfectly clear what they were - and still are - thinking to me.

[LisaM]

3. What a strange ad.

Right up there with the Nike chain-saw murder one.

[TrogL]

6. mmmmmm.....chainsaw

[Berry Cool]

13. Oh Lord, you are reminding me of how BAD that Nike ad was.

I mean, dayum. Had I ever been a victim of a violent crime, I would've had a heart attack. And I'm glad I wasn't a kid when it came out, either.

[seabeyond]

4. come fuck our women, impreg and then go home. hooyah... fuck. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

12. You have to admit, it's a novel promotional campaign.

It's like taking "Virginia is for lovers" to the next level.

[seabeyond]

14. sleezy has so been overdone. nothing novel here. use women to sell. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Certainly, this ad is more clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzNgfhcbJs&feature=related

[seabeyond]

19. rofl.... lol. ya. much more clever. can be done.

thats funny. thanks for the laugh. really i was almost to cowardly to go into the youtube you gave me, not sure what was gonna pop up.

[TheWraith]

5. Promoting promiscuity?

How about for being a fucking stupid ad?

[provis99]

7. as if there weren't enough stereotypes about Scandinavian women

or apparently, about "dark" guys who chase after the white-skinned blondes.:eyes:

[Warren DeMontague]

8. It's an OUTRAGE!!!! Consenting adults aren't allowed to have SEX!!111!!!!!!

Like I said, it's an OUTRAGE!!!!

Or, at least, a silly ad.

[nc4bo]

9. That's a darkskinned infant?!

Putting the kid's coloring aside, that commercial is plain trifling.

[aikoaiko]

10. dark-skinned baby

:shrug:



full video of ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SSHxGGpjM

[seabeyond]

15. that is the "dark skin" baby. hm.... nt

[Warren DeMontague]

11. A picture of the woman with the "dark skinned infant"

Not that it matters (except to the people who included that in their fauxrage about the ad), but that kid is about as "dark skinned" as I am.