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Commuters Outraged at Match.com Ads Calling Freckles 'Imperfections'
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Posted on 04/14/2016 9:40:57 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Subway riders in London are outraged at Match.com ads calling freckles and different-colored eyes "imperfections."

"If you don't like your imperfections, someone else will," the ads read.

Angry Underground riders started posting photos of the ads on Twitter, calling out the dating website for "bullying."

"Lowest form of advertising @match_UK claiming freckles & eye colour make a person imperfect? profiting by bullying," writes one user.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


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White shaming.

Where's our safe space?!

1 posted on 04/14/2016 9:40:57 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

This is what “outrages” some people. Wow.


2 posted on 04/14/2016 9:42:08 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: TigerClaws

We live in a freckled world....


3 posted on 04/14/2016 9:42:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: TigerClaws
Freckles song
4 posted on 04/14/2016 9:45:08 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: cld51860

Just can’t believe this. A dating site ad outrages someone???

So match.com is bigoted against those with freckles??? Is that the punchline???


5 posted on 04/14/2016 9:48:16 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Just wait until they suggest ANYTHING to do with a black person is an ‘imperfection.’ There’ll be riots.


6 posted on 04/14/2016 9:50:06 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Horrendously disfigured? Then we’ve got the MATCH for YOU!


7 posted on 04/14/2016 9:51:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

I like girls with freckles.


8 posted on 04/14/2016 9:53:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
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To: TigerClaws

Bullying? My god Islam will take over the world because the west has literally become too stupid to survive.


9 posted on 04/14/2016 9:54:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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So now saying “someone will like that you have freckles” is crimethink? Double plus ungood. Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc!


10 posted on 04/14/2016 9:56:44 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: RoosterRedux

If you’re on dating site looking for a perfect human being, that pretty much sums-up the problem with your social life right there.


11 posted on 04/14/2016 10:01:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

Is missing your head because you had a run-in with a newly imported jihadi an imperfection also?


12 posted on 04/14/2016 10:02:27 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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I like girls with freckles.

So do I! Freckles are body art from God.

13 posted on 04/14/2016 10:02:51 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: TigerClaws

Gingers have no souls.


14 posted on 04/14/2016 10:03:59 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Harvey Dent -- can he be trusted?)
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To: cld51860

Gee, maybe the reaction is evidence of why the whiner can’t get a date on his/her own...


15 posted on 04/14/2016 10:04:18 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: ClearCase_guy

No no, they have many souls... stolen from neighborhood children.


16 posted on 04/14/2016 10:06:15 AM PDT by discostu (This unit not labeled for individual sale)
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To: TigerClaws

Everytime I called you Freckles, I was really insulting you...

17 posted on 04/14/2016 10:15:37 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Help, help!

I’ve been micro-aggressed!


18 posted on 04/14/2016 10:17:01 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Freckles are beautiful.
http://twistedsifter.com/2012/09/hyperrealistic-portraits-using-ballpoint-pens-vianaarts-samuel-silva/


19 posted on 04/14/2016 10:18:06 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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To: TigerClaws

I happen to like Scottish lassies with flaming red hair and freckles - no defects about those!!! Now, Liberals on the other hand, those ARE defective.


20 posted on 04/14/2016 10:38:19 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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