Posted on 09/10/2007 5:50:28 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
A fast food chains racy new advertising campaign has left at least one teachers organization demanding it be pulled.
The ad for St. Louis, Missouri-based Hardees Corporation features a sexy teacher, making provocative moves in front of the class while two students rap to a song called "Flat Buns, according to a report on myFOXstl.com.
"How irresponsible can you get? said the Tennessee Education Association in a statement on their website. At this very moment, there are female teachers in high school classrooms with 30+ students who are working hard to teach our children so that they can compete in today's world. It is unbelievably demeaning to every one of them to promote a television advertisement showing a young teacher gyrating on top of her desk while boys in the class rap about her body in order to sell hamburgers!"
Hardees claims the ad is obviously a spoof, pointing out that the target demographic for the ad is young men who find this type of ad campaign appealing.
The fast-food chain courted controversy before with a provocative hamburger ad featuring Paris Hilton.
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I doubt it.
I hate to break it to all of you, but the target demographic realizes this commercial for what it is. A mock of the Sir Mix A Lot ‘Baby Got Back’ video. The fact that only one person here seemed to get that reference makes me believe that most people here are not in that target demographic.
I am about 4 years over the hill for their demographic. I guess I’m a geezer now and will just have to get used to it.
Actually the song “Flat Buns” is a modern day spinoff/remake/parody whatever of “Baby Got Back”. Does anyone know who sings it?
The 30-35 year old part of the demographic might know Sir-Mix-A-Lot but I don’t think the 18 year olds know him anymore than they know Perry Cuomo.
It is a little tough to take when somebody claims that a professional adult actress is a “victim”.
Is this ping list a “how to” lesson for teenage boys to get some love from their hot female teachers?
I don’t know where these women were when I was in school.
I’m sure many of them do. I knew plenty of songs from the 70’s when I grew up. Not all of them, but certainly the one’s that were popular enough to have invaded pop culture and lasted. I would say Baby Got Back has done the same thing. They may not know the video but they know the song. Heck, I just saw it on a Simpsons episode that was made this year or last.....
That’s true I suppose. I’m a fan of Pink Floyd and Led Zepelin and they did their best work when I was still 9 years old.
There was an article I saw today to that affect on Real Clear Politics.
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