Furious complaints about innocent tv commercial
JamesC81
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231167/Fury-Kingsmill-advert-sexualises-children-Shows-skimpy-teenager-posing-provocatively-skimpy-school-uniform.html
The advert featuring 18-year-old Ms Berwin
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One outraged viewer wrote on a web forum: ‘Perhaps it’s because paedophilia is very much in the public consciousness at the moment but shouldn’t this be illegal? Nearly seeing up the skirt of a minor?’
The advert featuring 18-year-old Ms Berwin
I first saw that ad during X Factor and had to rewind it as I couldn't believe what I'd just seen. It's particularly striking given the Savile furore. If the ad has used an average looking teenager - short, hockey legged, acne ridden - then it could be classed as a 'joke for families'. Using a leggy model who looks exactly like the archetype you see all over internet porn shows it is barely disguised titillation. It astounds me that people are up in arms about the ASDA ad, when an ad portraying a teenage girl as a (wantonly asking-for-it) sex object is seen as amusing. Bizarre.
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if anything it`s realistic, girls have been turning their waistbands over for decades.
I had to lol at this
plus she looks about 21!
Anybody who thinks it is offensive, sexualising children or 'can see up her skirt' is most definitely mentally ill.
Besides, if people are complaining that it sexulises children, surely they're viewing the advert in a sexual way in the first place?
yeah this, when I was at school I didn't know a single girl that didn't.
^^^This - I didn't read the article so just watched the video - it was almost a replay of my later school years
I suppose it depends on the viewers perception of what they want to see in this case - as has already been said: most schoolgirls hiked their skirts; mine started out knee length and was thigh high (almost) by the time I got to school
Seems, to me, that on that sort of basis you could ban almost anything as long as you could manage to dredge up some weirdo who admits to finding it "provocative".
A load of a do over nothing.
Observational comedy, nothing more.
Some folk need to get a life.
Read the comments and ratings below and they show the readers think those who complained are way OTT.
My skirt was shorter than that in lower sixth too!:D
What surprises me is that the schools allow it.
as mine was in the early 1970`s.
those people need to get out more. literally.