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.
Yes, so you have to get REALLY close down there and check the roots.
“Spectacular.”
Ah, happy memories.
Enjoy a warm Old Age lit by the flames of recollection.
LOL!
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)
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?
These are some of the redheads on Match.com?
My long-lost twin sister!
My long-lost twin sister!
Forty years ago, that is.
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”
Don’t mess with red or you’re dead. And what firearm? I didn’t see any. :)
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)
Great line from a great movie, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (the redhead),
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