Posted on 02/24/2016 11:50:52 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Australian Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has bullied a car service company into discontinuing its advertisement because the “sexist” portrayal of women allegedly results in the “vilification of women.”
ABC Australia reports Ultra Tune’s “Unexpected Situation” advertisement has been pulled after the ASB determined the ad violates a “code of ethics” pertaining to “discrimination against women.”
The 15-second advertisement in question features two women caught on train tracks and then panicking as a train approaches them.
In order to “avoid unexpected situations” like getting caught on train tracks, the ad suggests people should “get your car serviced at Ultra Tune.”
Although the advertisement ends with the empowered women walking away from the burning car (“Charlie’s Angels” style), the advertisement has still been condemned as “sexist” since the women are apparently portrayed as “bimbos.”
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Down Under Nanny State DANG!
You can vilify men and Christians but women are off limits.
I’ll bet the actresses in the ad were glad to get the work.
Will they pull all the ads that deliverately portray the man dumber than his kids, unable to repair things, not kowing how simple things work, unable to take care of his children properly, can’t cook and wifey has to do it, is portrayed grouped with the kids as another big dumb kid mom is at,odds with...?
Will they? Friggin hyocrite assh0les.
Women are strong, able, courageous, brainy, and the equal of men in every regard.
But of course you can’t tease them or they’ll pee themselves.
They would know how not to get stuck on train tracks.
Every single TV ad in the U.S. for the last 30 years has portrayed married men as incompetent idiots.
Apparently, married women (who control the spending) love that sort of thing.
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