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Match.com Pulls Ads After Freckle Furore
KFOR ^ | APRIL 14, 2016

Posted on 04/14/2016 8:25:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Dating site Match.com is pulling an ad campaign after receiving a barrage of complaints for suggesting red hair and freckles are “imperfections.”

The posters, which sprung up in London tube and train stations Monday, featured a freckly red-haired girl with the caption: “If you don’t like your imperfections, someone else will.”

Match.com, part of the Match Group that also owns Tinder, issued a public apology but only after members of the public took to twitter to voice their outrage.

Londoner Carrie Hill said: “Perhaps, I’m a secret leopard. Or, maybe they’re coordinates. But, my freckles are certainly not ‘imperfections.'”

Chloe Vinden from South Wales: “Proud to have #freckles, not #imperfections.”

In a statement, Match.com said the campaign was misunderstood.

“We believe freckles are beautiful. The intention of our ‘Love Your Imperfections’ campaign is to focus on the quirks and idiosyncrasies that people wrongly perceive to be imperfections,” the company said.

The Advertising Standards Authority received a dozen complaints about the billboard, although a spokesperson said no action was taken.

Match.com took the decision to remove the ads itself.


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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yes, so you have to get REALLY close down there and check the roots.


41 posted on 04/14/2016 9:29:42 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: boycott

“Spectacular.”

Ah, happy memories.

Enjoy a warm Old Age lit by the flames of recollection.


42 posted on 04/14/2016 9:31:02 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: 21twelve

LOL!


43 posted on 04/14/2016 9:31:43 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Red heads are my favorite! Who would dare dish them?

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I asked my then 95 year old mother once, herself an original red head. Mom. I have three brothers and they all have red hair and mine is dark brown, why is that.

Still showing her sharp wit, she said, “Some things we just don’t talk about son”. (It got a lot of laughter from my brothers and sisters anyway)


44 posted on 04/14/2016 9:39:55 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Cementjungle

45 posted on 04/14/2016 9:43:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Bobalu

46 posted on 04/14/2016 9:45:49 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: nickcarraway

47 posted on 04/14/2016 9:50:25 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: nickcarraway

Obviously when the ad states “others will” in means freckles are actually an attractive attribute.

So many whining women of today wonder why they are still single?


48 posted on 04/14/2016 11:16:57 PM PDT by opus1 (This is all getting rather confusing.)
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To: Bobalu

These are some of the redheads on Match.com?


49 posted on 04/15/2016 12:58:37 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: smokingfrog

My long-lost twin sister!


50 posted on 04/15/2016 10:30:46 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

My long-lost twin sister!
Forty years ago, that is.


51 posted on 04/15/2016 10:32:37 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: equaviator

No, to post images I go to Bing and do an image search and post the thumbnails expanded to width = 400.

The thumbnails are very tiny in size yet still look OK.

I searched “beautiful redhead”


52 posted on 04/15/2016 10:50:31 AM PDT by Bobalu (I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
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To: smokingfrog

Don’t mess with red or you’re dead. And what firearm? I didn’t see any. :)


53 posted on 04/15/2016 12:08:01 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: nickcarraway

54 posted on 04/15/2016 12:11:12 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: nickcarraway
Red-headed women have been berry, berry very, very good to me...
55 posted on 04/15/2016 1:32:42 PM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

My ex-boss had a poem about his ex-wife:

Roses are red
So is your head
I wish I was dead.

:)
(p.s. his view was specific, not a generality)


56 posted on 04/15/2016 1:34:57 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: SparkyBass
Two women in the house, and one of them a redhead.

Great line from a great movie, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (the redhead),

57 posted on 04/15/2016 1:47:37 PM PDT by Robwin
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