To think Poundland ad is not “genius” and is actually a bit I appropriate?

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Most comments on Facebook are proclaiming it “genius.” I don’t think a sexual innuendo is that genius TBF.

Plus why is it a woman lying on her back with a t shirt saying “power” and a man standing over her dominating her. They could have at least chosen another sexual innuendo.

Also difficult to explain to kids.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

That was the example I was thinking of too, pumper, but unfortunately, invoking Evans is like saying "candyman" three times into a mirror - it summons up any lurking rape apologists and then there's no more sense to be had from the thread...

SophoclesTheFox I know, it’s incredibly frustrating. I actually came on here expecting a forty-line post about poor CE but it hasn’t appeared yet.

No they don't that is your bias reading stories as to what you want them to be, show a recent example within the last 10 years that even suggest such a thing.

Do you live under a rock? They absolutely do.

Couple of high profile examples from recent times:
Ched Evans
Adam Johnson - and his victim was a child.

The bloke in Glasgow who got a suspended sentence for having sex with a 12 year old. Some of the stuff said about her, including by posters on MN, was appalling.

Eltonjohnssyrup

#elflivesmatter

Ooh I bet you think that is so witty.

Just to be clear this is Twinings' statement.

In a statement, Twinings said: “We are aware of an image that is circulating that misuses our product. We had no involvement in this and it is obviously not reflective of our brand values.”

I can imagine Twinnings being quite pissed off with this actually.

Ha yes! I only didn't post Ched Evans because I couldn't recall his name and didn't want to google again and feel sick to my stomach.

Ahem lass your point still stands but as Glaswegian I feel the need to correct you : it was Edinburgh.

I'm pretty dirty-humoured but even I find this tacky and degrading to women. Inappropriate for a national store chain.

Piggywaspushed apologies, you are correct. It was Edinburgh

And the other ads in the Poundland campaign?

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/poundlands-elf-christmas-campaign-twitter-961558

Extremely tacky considering it's a store for all the family. I'm not a prude by any sense of the imagination but don't think this is appropriate at all. Poor taste.

Well at least I know what teabagging means now. It was a new one on me. Don't think I'll be trying it any day soon. And if I was the Twinings marketing manager I'd be going f*ing mental.

Hilarious and not all misogynistic and harmful.

If you’re thick as fuck.

It is absolutely astounding that women (well, who knows, they might be men pretending to women....as the old joke goes, are there any women on the internet???) are on this thread DEFENDING men's 'right' to degrade and demean women!! The mind boggles!! 😮🤔

Anyway, yes, I go into Poundland at least once a week to get toiletries and all kinds of things. But no more. I'm done with that shop.

Hilarious and not all misogynistic and harmful.

If you’re thick as fuck.

I was trying to think of what to say about this business @arealhumanbeing but you have written exactly what I was thinking. That people are defending this and making out that anyone who doesn't think it's funny are lacking in a sense of humour, is genuinely mind boggling to me.

It really bothers me that my DD is growing up in a place where people, where women defend this shit.

It's actually quite obscene!

The outrage is funny, but the adverts are not.

The outrage is funny, but the adverts are not.

That's it in a nutshell.

Well their sales figures are out. After the elf campaign their sales jumped by 1/5 to £59 million. The campaign was a resounding success. For £25.00.

Because why bother spending money on a marketing campaign when you can just get a bunch of naive Mary Whitehousesque virtue signallers to do it for you because they're far too dim to realise they're just making them a shedload of money.

Their sales probably went up because everyone’s skint due to austerity and the looming end-of-days financial shitstorm that is Brexit.

Staying silent in the face of misogyny is never the right choice.

It's inappropriate and moronic.

I guess we can expect something similar next year then...

It went up 5% year on year so not because people were skint. They were skint at the same time last year. And that's a big jump.

It worked. It was a cheap poor taste joke and the whole campaign worked. Not because it was funny or clever or attractive. But because a lot of people getting their knickers in a twist made it go viral. And people were very entertained by their outrage. Because watching a lot of very po faced people being deliberately provoked into debating whether or not a plastic doll has given consent is entertaining.

screepy, well perhaps next year people will have the sense just to ignore it or complain privately?

I doubt it though because some people love being outraged so much they'll do it even when it's obvious they're walking into a trap intended to make them look as ridiculous as possible.