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To find the Malteaser advert to be bad taste?

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tessiegirl · 24/01/2019 21:26

Has anyone seen the Malteaser advert with the disabled woman?
She describes to her friends how she and a guy had been getting frisky when she suddenly had a spasm.
She then shakes the Malteaser bag obviously mimicking how she was giving the guy a hand job as she spasmed and proceeds to spill the contents of the bag which obviously alludes to the fact he 'finished'.
I don't know, the advert seems in bad taste somehow? Hmm

OP posts:
WithAllIntenseAndPurposes · 24/01/2019 21:28

Are disabled people not allowed to do the sex? Or is it the sex full stop that you object to?

Itwasbestoftimesworstoftimes · 24/01/2019 21:30

Why?

Disabled people can

A) have sex
B) make fun of sex
C) make fun of themselves having sex

Confused
Sparklingbrook · 24/01/2019 21:31

I think it's funny. Is that wrong?

Aridane · 24/01/2019 21:32

An interesting article in the Guardian on this

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/maltesers-advertisments-disability-disabled-actors

ILoveDolly · 24/01/2019 21:32

Normalizing the fact that disabled girls can have friends, a sex life, work, laughs? The ad is unusual yes but refreshingly so. My 13yo is growing up with a mild disability and girls like her NEED to see THIS future where life is fun and normal. Not that she herself will get this joke yet, but you get what I'm saying.

CoachBombay · 24/01/2019 21:32

To be honest I cringe when I see it, not because the actress is disabled, it's just I don't fancy hearing someone's sex story at 5:30pm when I'm trying to get a 4 year old to eat vegetables....it makes me wonder, and I'm no prude. I just don't think it's needed.

Aridane · 24/01/2019 21:33

I find the advert in poor taste (hand jobs), irrespective of disability

Aridane · 24/01/2019 21:33

Aw, shit - they're on at that time!

Suziepoozie · 24/01/2019 21:33

Yes disabled people have sex..but what do Maltesers have to do with sex at all? Why does sex need to be involved?! It’s a bit weird to use a sex based advert for chocolate that is aimed at all ages. Also find the one with the broken necklace really weird, about the snogging.

Sparklingbrook · 24/01/2019 21:34

Well we are all talking about it and Maltesers so something is working.

StealthPolarBear · 24/01/2019 21:35

Is that advert still on? We had a thread about this three or so years ago!

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 24/01/2019 21:35

Well it’s put me off Malteasers.

GabsAlot · 24/01/2019 21:36

really its yeard old and most diabled peopel think ts hilarious

are they not allowed to have sex or something

Sparklingbrook · 24/01/2019 21:36

I quite fancy a bag now.

Tenpenny · 24/01/2019 21:37

Yeah ive often thought this. I do think someone mimicking masturbation in an advert for chocolate is quite shocking Confused

Tenpenny · 24/01/2019 21:45

But its the hand job people find in bad taste - not the choice of actress! Know what i mean.

Im amazed it passed the censors

Oddcat · 24/01/2019 21:45

I think all the malteasers ads are awful. The one with the two doctors where one says she snogged a guy makes me cringe , especially when her friend questions whether that’s all she did. Yuck .

Tenpenny · 24/01/2019 21:47

That one is very cringe. The malteser ads from about 15 years ago or so were far warmer/funnier.

CoachBombay · 24/01/2019 21:49

The way I see it, I don't mind being in a group chat with the girls on WhatsApp whilst we send eachother the dick pics we've been sent and either presently or historically (one looks like a mushroom and it's continually shared when someone mentions anything to do with mushrooms 😂) and having a good laugh about them....but I don't want to be a party to other women's random sex talk.

Your not my mate, I don't want to know.

AnnaFender · 24/01/2019 21:50

Two reasons why these adverts come across so badly in my opinion;

  1. They're just not relatable - to anyone. Nobody ever bloody demonstrated an embarrassing incident using maltesers, disabled or not, so it feels cringey and contrived. We like adverts/jokes/whatever when it's relatable to actual things we do (which definitely doesn't include graphic descriptions of my boyfriend ejaculating using maltesers blegh).

  2. as spoken about in the article linked by the pp, the scripts focus on strong arming the featured disability into an embarrassing situation. Using example from one of the other ads, why can't someone speak in BSL about a relatable incident that could happen to anyone? Why does is have to be related to the person's deafness?

Anyway, I hate them.

Sparklesocks · 24/01/2019 21:52

I don’t mind it, it’s a bit cheeky but I like that they use disabled actors.
Also kids wouldn’t get what they meant so I don’t worry about that.

nothinglikeadame · 24/01/2019 21:59

I know what you mean OP.

I couldn't belive it when I first saw it.

If it didnt feature a person with a disability, people would be up in arms about an advert that so crudely alluded to a woman laughing about wanking a bloke off

BelfortGabbz · 24/01/2019 21:59

I'd find it in bad taste with any actress - maltesers....hand job....cringe.

YourWinter · 24/01/2019 22:01

I hate it, I don't want to see advertisements featuring innuendo about a hand job, and it has nothing at all to do with disability. I hate the one suggesting an inadvertantly swallowed item (ring? gemstone?) can be returned to its owner the next day. We all excrete, it's not entertaining to imply picking through one's faeces is reasonable.