"Flat Buns"

[omega minimo]

That burger joint has been pushing the How-Disgusting-Can-Commercials-Be envelope for years now (decades?).

The new multi-media "Flat Buns" campaign, complete with additionally provocative late-night edits, tries a new low.

Anyone who's seen it has got to wonder:

Why do we have to have any of the boneheaded fights and flamewars that we have had about gender/power issues, when the evidence is right there in yer face?

[Warpy]

1. Why the hell don't they just cut to the chase?

Why don't they all date drag queens?

If they want young male bodies with vaginas, why aren't transsexuals more in demand?

Flat buns, my round FEMALE arse!

[mzteris]

2. um - I think you're missing the point.

[omega minimo]

4. plenty of (disgusting) points to go around

funny they sell FOOD with disgust :eyes:

[Warpy]

5. Good gawd, I sincerely hope so.

[mzteris]

9. am I missing something?

I'm sorry - but - sometimes I can be a bit dense. Are you joking, or what?

[omega minimo]

3. .

:spray:




scraping the bottom of the barrel with beastie boy clones.....

[intaglio]

7. This advertising is physical propaganda

and I think caters to a paedophile market.

The anorexic, under age models are sexualised versions of female children. The only atribute required to appear adult are oversized, artificially firm breasts.

[omega minimo]

10. The US version may be different?

A blonde barbie teacher being upstaged by two lame beastie boy wannabes......

[dipsydoodle]

6. There a mild terminology issue here

in the UK buns are boobs.

[lapfog_1]

8. it can join another joint (in Pheonix)

called the pink taco.

(no, I'm not kidding)

[Captain Hilts]

13. I saw a woman in my 'hood the other day that had 'pink taco' printed on the back of her shorts....

I couldn't believe it.

Why do women dress like sluts?

[omega minimo]

14. fwiw, you may have noticed

that much of the fashions available in the stores in recent years look like cheesy 70's hookers clothes.

[lapfog_1]

15. 70's hooker clothes had more taste...

And it's partly our rap/hip hop culture, plus a reactionary misogynistic streak (women are valued only for their looks and are only good for sex) running through our society right now.

[omega minimo]

16. and yet so many (young) women consider themselves liberated

and not "feminist"

[Captain Hilts]

17. It's also a Hispanic thing. The Hispanic women in my neighborhood uniformly...

wear shrink wrap.

[omega minimo]

18. So this "illin" burger campaign sneaks up to the hip hop/race issues by

throwing back to the jokey beastie boy schtick -- taking on a blonde barbie teacher....

[Katherine Brengle]

19. Because society tells them to.

Why blame women for adhering to social norms in order to be accepted?

[la la]

11. what I'm questioning is..........

the flat buns commercial with the 'kids' and the teacher.

now,that, to my mind, is not appropriate, what with all the crap the media pushes about female teachers 'seducing' young males!

:wtf:

[omega minimo]

12. yup

sending all sorts of ill messages, including to kids who see it.
last night saw the late night edit that has the "teacher" gyrating up on the desk....

[lips]

20. paging miss hilton, mistress hilton...please report to the administrator's office..

[Captain Hilts]

21. The Guardian on women exploiting themselves. Interesting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2167935,00.html