Register

Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Chill out and chat with the foodie community or swap top tips.
NOTE: THE CURRENT CHATTERBOX IS IN THIS FORUM
User avatar
Posts: 1091
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:49 pm
Location: USA

Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby mark111757 » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:20 pm

Seems like the PC police don't want to be offended


IMG_20180207_190240_062.JPG
IMG_20180207_190240_062.JPG (172.5 KiB) Viewed 4154 times



I am not offended but I gather there are some that are

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Renée » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:03 pm

I am not really offended, but can understand that some people might be. I just think that it's a stupid advert! I do like Tunnocks teacakes though.

Site Admin
User avatar
Posts: 4191
Joined: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:56 pm
Location: Bushey

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Sakkarin » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:58 pm

I am offended because it is just lazy, gormless advertising with zero creative thought. I would expect better even from a first year student.

EDIT: Maybe it's a one off for Wimbledon, on a local billboard. Still lame.

User avatar
Posts: 923
Joined: Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:19 pm
Location: Barcelona

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Alexandria » Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:36 pm

Vintage style ..

Not offended whatsoever ..

The advert needs to re-engineered in my view to something much more impacting and dazzling ..

This advert, is "old hat " .. :thumbsdown :thumbsdown
Barcelona, soulful & spirited, filled with fine art, amazing architecture, profoundly steeped in culture & history, and it engages all your senses, and food fancies.

User avatar
Posts: 3687
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:53 am
Location: Cheltenumb

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Gillthepainter » Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:36 am

Socially unacceptable.
I wouldn't argue with anyone who was indeed offended by this sexist fodder.

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby jeral » Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:10 pm

To me, it dates back to the thinking of the 1980's when a pretty, often scantily clad, female was used to attract attention for just about anything.

I don't personally find the Tunnock's advert offensive, just stupid and extremely lazy thinking.

It seems inconceivable that all questionable adverts must have been signed off by at least twenty people, which makes you wonder if some are just being deliberately contentious.

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby jeral » Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:14 pm

Gillthepainter wrote:Socially unacceptable.
I wouldn't argue with anyone who was indeed offended by this sexist fodder.

Just thinking out loud, if they'd paired a man and a woman tennis players, both showing their teacakes in the same place (on hip), would that have been acceptable?

User avatar
Posts: 4986
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:30 pm
Location: Provence

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Joanbunting » Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:04 pm

Completely unacceptable for me too. If it were a man doing the same advert they would noy have lifted uo whatever they were wearing. It's a skirt thing.

I just got to wonder why would you put a yucky snack trash item there anyway / It smacks of that way back so poster of the tennis player doesn't it? or am I just showing my age?

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby jeral » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:36 pm

Good point about the skirt thing. Although I just can't find myself criticising or trying to exclude the idea that men like looking at pretty females or women at dishy men. If there were a sexual connotation, e.g. a man reaching for the woman's teacake, that'd be different. I imagine a feminist might say that a woman has a right to keep her teacake wherever she likes, so there. More things in the world to worry about methinks.

Yeah, the ubiquitious 1970's tennis poster in every boy's bedroom :mrgreen:

Or the Harry Secombe quip:
Scene: Boy and girl in pram.

Boy: "I'm a boy."
Girl: "How do you know?"
Boy lifts up blanket: "Look!
Girl: "Ooh! Blue socks."

User avatar
Posts: 427
Joined: Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:50 pm
Location: Whitefield, Manchester

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby WhitefieldFoodie » Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:15 pm

I do not find it offensive, neither does Tiff. BUT in todays society and the recent upsurge in feminism I think it is an unwise marketing decision. I find it no more "obscene" than the diet coke adverts of men in water drenched tops and pretty much every perfume advert.

Personally, I have no problems with sexualised advertising. In fact I think over censoring such material is worse than over sexualisation and could have massive ramifications on the way society views anything sexualised.

User avatar
Posts: 4986
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:30 pm
Location: Provence

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Joanbunting » Mon Feb 12, 2018 3:10 pm

WE have a chain of DIY stores in France called Mr Bricolage. Until very recently all there bill-board adverts showed skimpily clad females weilding oversized DIY equipment. It was so un-pc it was ludicrous but I pretended I found it very offensive , much to the amusement of male French friends - until I pointed out that, in this family if anyone is about to use an electric drill or something similar it would be me , not M and I would certainly be more suitably and safely dressed than those ladies.

They have since disappeared. Even the Lidl catalogue always used to show women using household items like irons, brooms,mops etc and men using the more dangerous things like electric drills, sanders and saws. Only a couple of months ago we had a breakthrough. A man using a food processor and a woman weilding a paint brush UP A LADDER :lol: :lol:

User avatar
Posts: 58
Joined: Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:33 pm

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby scullion » Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:08 pm

sorry but i find it very offensive, tunnocks teacakes should have been banned years ago - nasty things - and i can think of better places to shove them than in andy murray's tights - though why he's wearing those and a skirt beats me.

Posts: 1266
Joined: Thu May 03, 2012 10:35 am

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Lusciouslush » Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:59 pm

Well - here I am about to take off my welding mask & gloves..........................

& do I fancy a ' little cake' tucked up a little knicker (er)?

no, I do not...! Who would?!?!

Not at all offended by the ad......but (yawn :yawn :yawn ) boring..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

User avatar
Posts: 1773
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:40 pm

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby karadekoolaid » Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:34 am

I´m not offended by the ad. I absolutely don´t care a fig for PC.
However, the ad is hopelessly lost in space. What on EARTH has a cupcake to do with (a) playing tennis and (b) sticking the damn thing up a woman´s thigh??
The marketing manager who thought that one up should be sacked on the spot.
Somewhat akin to Jacob Rees-Mogg advertising Kim Kardashian´s T-shirts.

User avatar
Posts: 916
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:33 pm

Re: Who's offended next?? Tho it is publicity.....

Postby Pampy » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:31 pm

My thoughts exactly.

Return to Food Chat & Chatterbox

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 16 guests