I hate advertising. I hate that hot women that don’t even get most of the jokes from “That 70s Show”are supposed to sell me clothing. I hate the pervy men (and women) that make these marketing/PR decisions.
This is a new ad for American Apparel:
Um, OK.
This is about cotton underwear, right?
Then why does this look like porn?
She’s licking his dick?! Seriously?!
Maybe this is just a more honest version of the advertising we are already used to seeing, making a girl literally looking like a porn star, instead of just simulating it. Rumor has it that the guy in the photo is the owner of the company. Gross. Double gross.
I hope that if I ever have children I have boys, so that I don’t have to explain to young girls that this is ridiculous nonsense. Or dissuade them from trying to emulate what they see in advertising, like God knows I did at a young age. (It was easier when the role models were just wearing blue mascara, neon, and shoulder pads.)
I hate being a woman sometimes.
Except when I look at this:
If we’re going to have sexist advertising, for Christ’s sake, at least make it involve equal opportunity ogling. And ditto for the attendant body image problems.
You’re part of the problem if you post these pics on your blog and rant your little rant about them. You’ve played directly into the hands of the advertisers that you proclaim to hate. I don’t care who you are or where your from, male or female, we all will always look at images like this. Always. And if these images were not so readily available, we would seek them out. More sexual oppression is not what we need in this country. More open mindedness about perfectly natural things is not going to send us all to an imaginary place called hell. Exploitation? Maybe. A problem for being a girl? I hardly doubt it. Guarantee your “boys” will be hiding stuff like this from you rather thatn openly communicating with you.
Well, males do have the same media-driven body image problem, which news stories have been bringing up for a while relating to steroid use by teens. It seems to be a theme of the new documentary “Bigger, Faster, Stronger,” just based on the NPR interview I heard.