10:52 am - 01/23/2013
British retailer Marks & Spencer was hit with complaints over a new ad campaign featuring Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in lingerie. The Telegraph reports that three digital outdoor advertisements, all promoting Rosie's own Rosie For Autograph line for Marks & Spencer, were described as "overtly sexual, explicit, degrading to women and reinforced sexual stereotypes of women" in seven complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the U.K.'s advertising watchdog.
But the ASA has spared the adverts (and British men's chance of seeing Rosie's fine figure on their way to work). In a new report, the ASA provided this levelheaded assessment:
We also considered that it was acceptable for advertisers of lingerie to show their products modelled in ads, provided they did so responsibly. We also considered that, because the ads were for lingerie, consumers were less likely to regard the partial nudity shown as gratuitous.
Sounds fair to us. Interesting, the ASA also acknowledged Marks & Spencer's claim that the Rosie For Autograph line was designed by a woman (ostensibly, Rosie herself) for women, "as opposed to being designed for the titillation of men."
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Ads For Marks & Spencer Called 'Degrading To Women'
British retailer Marks & Spencer was hit with complaints over a new ad campaign featuring Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in lingerie. The Telegraph reports that three digital outdoor advertisements, all promoting Rosie's own Rosie For Autograph line for Marks & Spencer, were described as "overtly sexual, explicit, degrading to women and reinforced sexual stereotypes of women" in seven complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the U.K.'s advertising watchdog.
But the ASA has spared the adverts (and British men's chance of seeing Rosie's fine figure on their way to work). In a new report, the ASA provided this levelheaded assessment:
We also considered that it was acceptable for advertisers of lingerie to show their products modelled in ads, provided they did so responsibly. We also considered that, because the ads were for lingerie, consumers were less likely to regard the partial nudity shown as gratuitous.
Sounds fair to us. Interesting, the ASA also acknowledged Marks & Spencer's claim that the Rosie For Autograph line was designed by a woman (ostensibly, Rosie herself) for women, "as opposed to being designed for the titillation of men."
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it's like asking if water is necessary for life. because EVERYONE DRINKS WATER.
It was my first superhero show, and I didn't even know that's what it was until later. But she fights evil, goes to school in her secret identity, gathers a super team of friends, has a love story, and saves the world a bajillion times from monsters and aliens and evil. At 14, I loved it.
There's also an epic, tragically romantic reincarnation back-plot!
And an awesome fandom with a lot of fics, like a fuckton.
If you want deep character analysis, watch Trigun.
If you want fun space adventure, watch Cowboy Bebop.
If you want epic action adventure drama and perfect perfection of all perfection, watch both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist.
If you want spy stuff, watch Noir.
If you want creepy giant robots and psychotic storylines, watch Neon Genesis Evangelion.
If you want fun adventure giant robots, pick a Gundam series.
If you want a moving, heartfelt sitcom, watch Fruits Basket.
If you want a loopy, zany sitcom, watch Ranma 1/2.
If you want fantasy adventure, watch The Vision of Escaflowne, or Inu Yasha.
...I don't watch a lot of recent anime though, so these are all 5-15 years old.
AND NO ONE EVER BELIEVES ME until I sit them down and make them watch it. They all quit after two episodes and don't stick around for when shit gets real.
Edited at 2013-01-24 02:33 pm (UTC)
The episode when Petz and Calaveras get healed?