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 dont 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, Im a secret leopard. Or, maybe theyre 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.
Or lethal.
;)
or dangerous. I speak from experience.
yeah, I got engaged to one of those. Turned out she was also engaged to a Navy man.
Said she was going to Georgia to see family for two week.
Something didn’t sit right so I passed her house and there she was in the red mini she worse JUST for me!!
we had a Camaro/firebird chase through the streets but they got away.
took a long time to get over that one.
wow was she sexy. devil in a red dress.
Theres no woman on Planet Earth more passionate and sensuous than a red head.
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So true. I’ve always had a weakness for them.
I’ve learned that some can be very volatile at times so you’ve got to be careful.
Alas, I’m at an age when words like “dangerous”, “lethal”, and “batsh*t crazy” can only evoke fond memories.
Enjoy it while you can - it doesn’t last forever and you have memories to make; memories to sustain your Old Age.
Trust me - when you’re old, you’ll look back and smile, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Sigh.
G*d in heaven!
I’m dying here....
See post 25.
Nah, I had to cut and paste. Besides I can’t remember if it’s in Belgium or the Netherlands.
Sorry, make that 26.
My mind is wandering.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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I’m 47. those days are behind me too.
But wow, was she something!!
Forty-seven????
I’d KILL to be forty-seven again.
oh. sorry.
You must have a lot of wisdom to pass on to the younger menfolk.
How do you know if they are REALLY red? They can bleach their pubics.
Think of the ad as a type of twit detector.
Forty-seven????
Id KILL to be forty-seven again.
Agree. I was dating one of those bat S### crazy redheads at the time. No way I would have survived this long if I was still with her. I have seen things that can’t be unseen. Absolutely crazy but she was spectacular.
I remember at the age of 92 my mom said “Oh to be 80 again.”
She was talking about her aches and pains.
Oh Lord!! I hope she wasn’t talking about her second husband that she married when she was 74!!!
Experience, yes.
Wisdom, alas no.
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