[I Was Naked]
When I Wrote ThisBanned on Fox?
2007-06-22
I find this hard to believe from a network that gave us everything from Married, With Children to The Simpsons.
This same commercial is also banned on CBS, but I find the reasoning ridiculous. Though the commercial is promoting safe sex and condom usage, the networks are more concerned about the props.
First off, its a typical scene, men (pigs -but they cover that with a double entendre)hitting on women in a bar. So the problem? Horrors..there's alcohol... in a bar!! Oh No, what is this world coming to? What's next? Dancing? I know the commercial shows pigs, but I didn't see any sign of Kevin Bacon.
Now some people out there are going to be offended because the commercial is simply alluding to sex, and I could care less about the moral minority. What's the difference between commercials for feminine products which obviously refer to the female reproductive system and condoms? Though, I always found it funny in my head how the first commercial for Maxipad's must have been conceived.
I pictured a small room, large table and a think tank headed up by an eager executive embracing a new market. They have the concept, sell the product based on absorbency.. and sitting on tabletop are the pads, or as my girlfriend used to call them, mouse mattresses. Eager to show just how absorbent the product is, they'll simply pour a cup of water, which is way more fluid that any woman would be comfortable tooling around in, but it has to make an impact so she remembers the brand in the grocery store. Our enthusiastic ad exec reaches for liquid to pour into the pad and..wait! What the hell color do we use? Ok, red's out...yellow...no...green? ew..that could be a sign of infection..hmm..definitely not black..orange..no that could be a bad combo....uhmm blue? Ah yes,the only non offensive color in nature. Its soothing, its calm, yep..blue and coincidentally, women feel blue..oh wait..lets not play that up ...anyway...I digress, back to the topic at hand.
With such a hue and cry raised about sex education in schools, and how we can't educate little Billy because if we promote sex ed in school we may as well strap him to a clitoris, what does the American Public have left to get free information? What else will consumers pay the most attention to on a daily basis?
Television.
Advertisers have a lot to sell in thirty seconds, when the average cost of a commercial is $200,000.00 during prime time. During the Superbowl, that rate is 2.7 million. The public is bombarded with advertising, from everything hits your mailbox both on and off line, print, media, brand recognition, product placement in your favorite sitcoms, to designer labels others wear. Personally I refuse to wear designer labels, if I want to wear someone's name, its going to be mine. I wear a perfume that I get an incredible amount of compliments when I wear it. Even when asked, I'll only give out the name of the perfume and not the embarrasing bald promoter of one said product. Say all you want, but the girl knows how to endorse perfumes. I just don't brag about it, or show support by shaving my head. Though I think she would have been in a lot less trouble if she had embraced the Trojan brand.
Well without further ado, here's the new commercial that can only be shown after 11:30 at night. I find it amusing as a woman, and quite frankly I wonder how much they're charging for those condoms in the men's room. Personally in that venue, they should be complimentary.
http://us.video.aol.com/player/launcher?ar=us_en_video_320x372_snag&pmmsid=1928124&autoplay=1#
surrogate (2007-06-23)
I've always felt the same way about designer labels. I won't even wear t-shirts advertising a commercial venture... unless it's mine.
Quite the image of poor Billy.
Katie (2007-06-22)
i personaly think that people over react.. because in the end if someone wants to have sex they are going to if u teach them about it or not so why not teach them safe sex? kinda alittle.. mental if u ask me.
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