Comments on: Well, Something Is Ugly About These Ads

By: Simone

Simone — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:06:27 +0000

@ Nathan: I’m a proud Fat Acceptance advocate, and I’m fine with the occasional fat joke, so long as it’s genuinely funny, and not mean-spirited. I’m not above laughing at myself–or just about anything else.

These ads, however, are fat-hate, pure and simple. They are not witty, or clever, or original, in any way. They’re just mean.

Imagine if you heard dozens of “ginger” jokes, every single day. And if most of those “jokes” were simply people re-hashing the same tired old lies: that redheads are lazy, stupid, greedy, disgusting, and unworthy of love.

You’d be a little pissed off, am I right?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:19:13 +0000

Oops – didn’t realize I was posting on a blog with a subtitle “we’re here, we’re sphere, get used to it” … I’ll take my fatty criticism elsewhere… falling on deaf ears here.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:14:51 +0000

With how fast obesity is infecting our population, 3/5 girls being fat doesn’t sound like “fat hate” as much as “proper math proportions of society.”

People need to stop being so sensitive. I’m not embarrassed when people make ginger jokes because I’m not self conscious about my red hair. Similarly, only self conscious overweight people will take real offense to these ads… and if they don’t accept their own bodies, why should anyone else?

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:10:04 +0000

Ha ha Bacardi, I’m all done with you. I am a consumer of chick-drinks like the Bacardi Breezer, but it’s gonna be Smirnov Ice or Mike’s Hard Lemonade for me!
There was unmistakable fat-hate in those ads, but it was in larger context of woman-hate. All of the women pictured were perfectly nice-looking, some stylish, some flirty, all seemed to be enjoying themselves. (That was part of the “joke” I guess — they DON”T EVEN KNOW THEY ARE REPULSIVE.) Since they are all fine, no better or worse looking than most people, the message is: “ladies, you’d better be PERFECT according to our standards, because anything less than PERFECT is ugly and worthy of ridicule.”
Stupid asshats. Why don’t you try to sell to women by viciously insulting them? That’ll work, for sure.

By: misss-e

misss-e — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:27:22 +0000

This is totally unrelated to this post. Well my second point is anyways. First…I love how writing letters and emails actually has proven effective (see my blog for my hate mail to target). Second…I was reading the Ann Taylor thing and i just dont understand why stores try to act like they dont sell any size 12-16. Im a 20 now but when I was 12-16 those sizes were always gone…left were the 0-2-4’s. They just dont want to sell the sizes when in fact they should be developing plus sized lines. If we didnt shop why is Lane Bryant still open and going strong!?!?! What plus sized clothing store has ever gone out of business. Exactly.

By: Kari

Kari — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:14:40 +0000

Bacardi has Epic Fail’d on a massive scale. How was this *ever* a good idea?

By: Addish

Addish — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:10:18 +0000

Mo, completely giving this article a shout out on my blog….when I get around to it…most likely tomorrow I’m being lazy.

By: Addish

Addish — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:07:32 +0000

Wow, this goes way past insulting. Sally actually looks cute though, I really liked her photo.

And as for the Lucy ad, nothing says ‘classy’ or ‘hot’ like getting shitfaced in a mall. Way to go Bacardi!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:49:59 +0000

@Bethany I thought the same thing! She is really cute and I love her outfit and haircut. I would totally flirt with her at a summer party.

By: lisa-marie

lisa-marie — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:38:40 +0000

Wow, that is just outrageously horrible and cruel.