Button
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Oh for pity's sake:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49332640. 128 humourless people have too much time on their hands and I, I take it, am paying for action to be taken.
Imagine a public safety advert on the subject of driving whilst using a phone. Do we now have to worry about the gender of the Police officer and driver portrayed in case they imply that most/an appreciable number of officers are of, say, plumbing type A and idiot drivers of plumbing type B?
Lord give me patience, but hurry!
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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You are Edna Welthorpe (Mrs), and I claim my liberated library book!
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Button- Location: Dover
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Granny, I'm torn between saying either "rumbled" or "you're just weird".
But the topic really gets my goat. If this was a sitcom about 2 individual fathers who every week left their eye-rolling small child in ever more ludicrous places, it would be treated as comedy, not statistically representative and therefore without implications for the standard of childcare by males in general.
But as an advert, apparently, the gender stereotypes are obvious and to be deplored. Why? Are men going to stop fathering children or be denied fostering roles if the advert continues to be screened? I suggest not and think that the advert is harmless.
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Captain Haddock
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First they came for the 'beach body ready' etc.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I do agree with you, though, Button. Kind of. My take is that folks watching the offending ads (or any ad for that matter) will bring to that experience varying qualities of interpretative sophistication which are out of the control of the advertiser in any case, no matter how subtle or subliminal they've sought to be. It seems to me that the charge of 'gender stereotyping' is aimed at 'protecting' a, largely imaginary, naive viewer. But we've all been watching TV so long now that all the conventions (including advertising ones) have been established and most everyone knows what they are, and they're rarely broken. We shouldn't be cutting TV cloth to make a suit for idiots. (Although this is largely what we have been doing for a couple of decades, with a few exceptions.)
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Jan Higgins
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There will always be a minority that get upset at the smallest thing.
Unfortunately these few are the ones that sometimes laws, rules etc seem to be aimed at, probably at the expense of the majority.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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This time the Home Office gets banned:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49488324. Oh well, no-one is above the law I guess, even if the HO wasn't selling as such, rather trying to impart information.
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Button- Location: Dover
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Only a matter of time before this gets pulled:
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Brian Dixon
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love it.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Hope not. It’s a good example of British humour.
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