OAA Apologise for "Career Women Make Bad Mothers" Campaign

[OAA]

The OAA are running a campaign to demonstrate the power of outdoor advertising to drive people online. This is being done in conjunction with a new website called ?Britainthinks.com? which encourages debate amongst the people of Britain.

We regret any misunderstanding that led to feelings of offence on the part of members of the Mumsnet community.

The intention of the website is to generate debate by posing questions that are deemed to be socially relevant by members of society.

We did not intend to cause any offence and we would stress that the questions posed were not the opinions of the OAA or any of its members.

Three posters were designed to initiate the debate using sport, life and politics and these are supported by dozens of other questions on the website itself.

Regrettably the question relating to ?career women? has caused offence and the OAA unreservedly apologises to anyone who has been offended. This was not our intention and, to ensure that this misunderstanding does not persist, instructions have been given to remove this poster.

Subject to the vagaries of the weather, all copy will be removed as soon as possible. The sites currently carrying this poster will be either blanked-out or carry one of the other designs. The poster will also be removed from the ?Britainthinks.com? website. All Digital posters have already been removed.

Agree with DomesticSlattern re Beta getting some crisis management advice. Teehee.

Anyone reading fancy leaking on here who they called?

The problem is that, I assume, they are STILL threatening legal action, and reading every bloody post on the site and then tightening Justine's thumbscrews every time they are hurt

Unless there was some sort of mistake in deleting the haiku thread?

aw swedes and I dyed my moustache blonde especially for our last meeting. And covered up my hairy legs with trousers.

Now Swedes. You don't really mean that.

Don't hide your depression **% suffer in silence and it's a growing problem.

or

How do men manage a family and a full time career?

It surely isn't for 'us' to decide anyway. This will be down to MNHQ won't it? I hope they say no.

OK, how about 'Free speech online - reform the libel laws now'. Boring but am all out of creative juices.

I would go with libel laws one actually.

Ahem.

How about STOP DELETING MY HAIKUS

I lose a LOT of important working hours trying to think up haikus you know

THE poster means of one design. I think it's a horrible trait to see bad in everything.

Phwaooahhhrrr. Look at the testicles on that.

It could say:

Am I being ureasonable ... to want to be as respected as a man?

Am I being unreasonable .... to want a family and a career?

Yes, a libel law reform poster would be good, though I wouldn't personally limit it to online.

But giving a deadline of 5pm to decide is pretty daft... obviously that would exclude a lot of career women from even seeing this proposal in time as not everyone can mix MNing and work.

And as if the MN could collectively decide something that quickly anyway!

Love the AIBU idea.

In fact, just use Am I Being Unreasonable?

very true, dittany. they don't need our input, they've seen the light now.

AIBU ...

TO WANT MY HAIKU
THREAD BACK WITHOUT GETTING A
THREATENING LETTER

If the words of the slogan are forged in discussion on Mumsnet, and if the B-Team want to use the Mumsnet provenance to publicise the poster, they will need permission from MNHQ.

So MNHQ could you just say whether you would be prepared to get into bed with them on this?

MadameDefarge

Aitch - of course they don't need our input. They are going to do a replacement poster anyway. It might be about Tiger Woods or another one about football.