This ad has been creating controversy in the media this past week and for good reason. Originated on the CBC Canada website, the article talked about the condo developer taking the ad down and offering a formal apology as well as the agency that created them offered an apology but the comments on the article are much more interesting than the article itself, I have quoted a few below.
“They are sexist, tasteless and old-fashioned. They will attract the wrong sort of people who think this sort of thing is okay.”
“has anyone ever heard of this popular slogan: SEX SELLS”
“I don’t know about the rest of you… but I’m not wasting any of my 25 year old scotch on a 25 year old Blonde.”
“The ads don’t appeal to me. But you have to be pretty uptight to let these harmless ads bother you. Wil Knoll says he wouldn’t want to be in a room with people who thought it was a great ad. I don’t think I’d want to be in a room with Wil Knoll.”
From Twitter:
@Jaynauta: I bet the goal of that condo ad was to cause I huge uproar. I’m a guy
For the new up and coming generation (my generation) we don’t need to worry about information. Within a few clicks you can find pretty much anything on the internet today and it’s only going to get more cluttered with, non-other than, more information. When I was in high school we struggled to find information in the text books we were forced to read, that were outdated. If we had a question that wasn’t in the textbook we struggled to find answers because we didn’t have tools like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs filled with hyperlinked sources.
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