Wednesday, March 24, 2010

ATTENTION WOMEN: In case you didn't know, Abortion Changes You (TM) (according to this subway ad)

Offensive much?

Clearly aimed at the "whores" and "sluts" who take the subway all the time and think abortions are like getting a haircut, this ad does more damage to the anti-choice movement than it helps their cause.

Treating women as though they are all children, incapable of thinking for themselves does not endear them to your cause. And putting an ad like this in a subway makes you look kinda racist. Also putting a "TM" after your "slogan" seems REALLY lame--you're supposed to be saving lives not worried about competing anti-abortion movements who might lift your trademarked slogan.

Also nice is how the fine print on the ad informs us that the woman shown in the ad is, in fact, a model. As in, she's not really a woman who had an abortion as the over all ad suggests. Way to destroy any message you were trying to send.

Well done, anti-choice people! Free speech is nice and all but it helps if you, first, try not to undermine your own message by misleading people, and second, understand your audience a bit better.

Just my ¥2, as always...

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