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OP posts:
BigFatPuddingMonster · 28/04/2024 15:17

It saddens me to think that (presumably) women here replying to the OP think she's a 'pearl clutcher' and not actually seeing the ebay ad as being hugely misogynistic. I'm with you, OP. The ad is completely inappropriate.

CurlewKate · 28/04/2024 15:17

@Soubriquet "Because it’s just a body. I don’t find it sexual at all."

Do you see nothing wrong with sexualised images of women being used in advertising?

@penjil it might surprise you to know that people can be concerned about lots of different things.

GoingRoundThatBlockAgain · 28/04/2024 15:15

You’re right, OP, this gratuitous everyday sexism should have died a death by now. I agree with @HelloWorld68, it’s sad that other PP don’t see the problem.

And while I appreciate that Dave’sDodgyDeals on eBay is hardly Ogilvy, it is against advertising standards to use women’s bodies in this way:

https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/offence-nudity.html#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20nudity%20in,appear%20in%20targeted%20media%20only.

Offence: Nudity

https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/offence-nudity.html#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20nudity%20in,appear%20in%20targeted%20media%20only.

SamuelDJackson · 28/04/2024 15:12

It is pretty ugh and irrelevant

StormingNorman · 28/04/2024 15:12

Sex sells

peakygold · 28/04/2024 15:10

There are A LOT worse things on ebay! You can buy lollipops which have been sucked (listings have appropriate photos), tights which have allegedly been worn by air stewardesses (with sexy photos), used/dirty underwear, and all sorts of other questionable things to satisfy the predilections of men. I used to report them occasionally, but I can't be bothered now.

HelloWorld68 · 28/04/2024 15:09

The saddest part of this thread is the posters who don't see anything wrong with it.

I assume younger posters who didn't have to put with this shit pushed into their faces when growing up.

The fact that it is (probably) against advertising standards tells you all you need to know. There is something wrong with it.

LittleGreenDragons · 28/04/2024 15:05

Bumblebeeinatree · 28/04/2024 13:20

I think it probably breaches advertising guidelines of sexualising women. I thought I read somewhere that decapitating women in an advert like that and just showing the skimpily clad body was a bit dodgy for adverts.

Are you trying to say her head is in the safe? 😱

I thought it was against advertising guidelines too.

Soubriquet · 28/04/2024 15:04

CurlewKate · 28/04/2024 14:54

@Soubriquet "Bit random I suppose but it doesn’t bother me"

Out of interest- why not?

Because it’s just a body. I don’t find it sexual at all.

penjil · 28/04/2024 15:01

Oh, stop clutching your pearls.

Have you seriously got nothing else to be worried about?

Find a hobby!

🙄

Desperatelyneedabreak · 28/04/2024 14:56

It's weird but I wouldn't care if I saw it I wouldn't even register it tbh.

5128gap · 28/04/2024 14:55

YANBU. When I'm shopping for Daisy Dukes I want to see what they look like on a model my shape and size. And I don't know what's with the security stuff? I suppose someone thought that was 'arty'. As for a woman with a spanner? PC gone mad!

CurlewKate · 28/04/2024 14:54

@Soubriquet "Bit random I suppose but it doesn’t bother me"

Out of interest- why not?

TulipTuesday · 28/04/2024 14:51

Bumblebeeinatree · 28/04/2024 13:20

I think it probably breaches advertising guidelines of sexualising women. I thought I read somewhere that decapitating women in an advert like that and just showing the skimpily clad body was a bit dodgy for adverts.

Ah, that’s where her head went

Soubriquet · 28/04/2024 14:49

Bit random I suppose but it doesn’t bother me

Yalta · 28/04/2024 14:48

I want to know what a woman’s arse cheeks has to do with selling a safe

or are they hoping to sell to people who think they get the arse cheeks as well😂

I would buy this and complain that I didn’t get the big spanner as well

Spirogyra · 28/04/2024 14:44

Dartmoorcheffy · 28/04/2024 12:51

They have achieved EXACTLY what they aimed for. By you posting about it, their item will now get thousands more views.

That won't help them. lf they have lots of views that don't lead to sales, that has a negative impact on their 'best match' ranking

Bumblebeeinatree · 28/04/2024 13:20

I think it probably breaches advertising guidelines of sexualising women. I thought I read somewhere that decapitating women in an advert like that and just showing the skimpily clad body was a bit dodgy for adverts.

Original poster
MichaelatheMechanic · 28/04/2024 13:17

CurlewKate · 28/04/2024 13:05

It's so depressing to hen we have to fight the same battles AGAIN and AGAIN...

^ this

I'm not a sensitive pearl clutcher just fed up of seeing this mysoginistic shit.

OP posts:
CurlewKate · 28/04/2024 13:05

It's so depressing to hen we have to fight the same battles AGAIN and AGAIN...

lonerider · 28/04/2024 13:04

Were you trying to put a spanner in the works OP?
(I'll get my coat😬).
I think a bloke in skimpy shorts with a sledge hammer would be a better add!

Original poster
MichaelatheMechanic · 28/04/2024 12:59

Dartmoorcheffy · 28/04/2024 12:51

They have achieved EXACTLY what they aimed for. By you posting about it, their item will now get thousands more views.

Does that make it right then?

Perhaps I should strip off when I take the photos of the mirror I'm going list?

OP posts:
chaticat · 28/04/2024 12:56

Weird

legalseagull · 28/04/2024 12:52

But how else would buyers know that women will want to shag them if they buy the super manly product

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