So you want to see the ad that reminds us all of inequality among the sexes? OK then, Here it is:
Be glad you’re not an Indian woman … Unless you are.
OK, some people have claimed that this ad is phony.
Others swear that it’s real.
For some reason, no one can tell what company the ad is promoting.
Regardless of whether or not it’s real, this ad is horrible on so many levels.
First of all, the message.
I did not choose my husband but I can choose my jewellery.
Are you kidding me?!
This is so shockingly offensive to women, it bears repeating.
This is so shockingly offensive to women.
Sure, you may know that women in India are basically chattel, whose fates are more often than not decided by men or elderly women who claim to know what’s best for them.
Just be glad you’re not a woman in India … unless of course, you are. In which case, we highly recommend moving to a better place.
There is so much more that is wrong and horrible with this ad. For now, we’ll just leave this where it is.
You gotta admit … you probably needed something like Head On to relieve the headache you got, once you saw this Head On ad.
Some marketing people apparently believe that causing the audience a pain in the skull is a smart way to attract new customers.
If you never saw this ad before, and you are wondering why you suddenly have a headache … data shows, it’s not the ice bucket challenge that you deftly avoided doing last week, when it was still cool.
This ad actually ran – and it is a shame on advertising everywhere
Or, how to kill your public image
Worst genter stereotype ever?
Possibly the worst image and text printed in a publicity campaign for diamonds, ever
To many people, it is truly kind of shocking to think that the above photo and the following actually appeared together in a real ad campaign, published in major publications in large Metropolitan areas. I’m guessing that the publishers were going for the shock factor, both in terms of the horribly poor taste of the imagery, as well as the complete disregard for the beauty that is the English language.
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Instead, the focus is the representation of women, it’s one of those perfect feet and thin, is that women as a sexual suggestion.
individual woman, declaring the girl, which shows that the pure sacrifice, but as the material is diamond, in this case, Hess Bieber page 0.62, “says a small religious” purity.
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body image and body weight compared to an addiction to close. note that there is no direct comparison between the diamond and women.
artificial legs, and the integrity of the skin is very important.
this announcement, the beauty of the female Women’s Diamond is the beauty of the diamond, which suggests that the carving of old coal formed as a diamond is such a good thing, and it works, is a killer stereotype.
Now if only we could get some better writers up in that company, and possibly less chauvinist photographers and creatives, then maybe we could see an improvement in the quality of messaging that this horrible advertisement conveys.
Until then, we berate, scold and otherwise hold this ad’s proprietors in contempt of culture, class and good taste, and we penalize you 5 carats.
Here’s an ad that went viral, and despite its “cute” and “warm and fuzzy” emotional message … that moms are great heroines of society, it is actually a horrible ad.
If you’ve seen the ad, you’re probably wondering “Why is this so horrible?”
Well, the answer is quite simple. There were a good half dozen or so real job seekers, spending time, preparing, anxiously trying their best to impress what they believed was a real interviewer for a real position at a real company. The only problem is, the job was fake, the interviewer was not hiring anyone, and the entire process was faked for the purpose of producing an ad to promote greeting card sales for Mother’s Day.
Now, while we should all love and appreciate our moms … after all, we would not be alive without them, we should also not waste the time of real people who are nervously searching for a job.
As anyone who has ever hunted for a job knows, it is nerve-wracking. It is a grueling process. Job hunting is in itself a full-time, unpaid job.
The ad executives who conceived and produced this ad probably thought they were doing a great service to mothers and their children everywhere, in addition to doing whatever they could to push your emotional buttons, in order to sell more dead trees with ink on them, to show moms that they are loved by their children.
So you wanna be a rocketship star?
What the advertising execs obviously did not think about, was how lame and horrible it is to steal and kill people’s time, which they can never get back, while making them endure yet another horrible job interview, and may have even caused them to miss the one job interview that would have given them a better quality of life.
Nice going, American Greetings’ ad agency. You guys suck.
There are so many better ways to promote Mother’s Day than by stealing the time of people who can hardly sleep at night because they are worried about their next paycheck or other issues related to finding gainful employment. And yet, you chose this way to do it, lying to people, getting their hopes up, and then crushing them, all in the hopes of just squeezing some more money out of the wallets of your customers. For that, you get this dishonorable mention here in the top trusted media watchdog media that puts the unflattering spotlight on Horrible Advertising.
This ad so toweringly distasteful and stupid, you can’t help but hope that the campaign from whence it launched crashed and burned mid-flight.
Seriously … the ad campaign manager responsible for this piece of trash ad could not think of a more original, less offensive way to promote a serious health issue like osteoarthritis?
This ad is, in fact, so bad, that we have to issue it our first ever Simon Sez Warning:
Horrible Advertising 