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You can't make this shit up....**facepalm**
The Most Sexist Advertising Slogans Of All Time
An Australian camping company has come under fire for painting insulting, misogynistic, and racist slogans on its fleet of vans.
Wicked Campervans, a budget travel option marketed toward tourists looking to explore Australia on the cheap, boasts brightly colored vans outfitted with loud graffiti artwork. Its slogans are far less, cheerful, however:
“In every princess, there’s a little slut who wants to try it just once”
“A wife: an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done”
“Fat girls are harder to kidnap”
“To all virgins: Thanks for nothing”
‘A blowjob is a great last minute gift!’
‘I wouldn’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die!’
‘Save the whales, harpoon a Jap”
Paula Orbea, a Sydney high school teacher, became horrified when her 11-year-old daughter came home from a trip and started quoting the messages painted on the vans. She kicked off a Change.org petition calling on company founder John Webb to “[e]liminate misogynistic and degrading slogans and imagery,” a push that has attracted more than 18,000 supporters.
“My daughter was upset by this because she felt, as a girl, that the slogan was refering to her and it made her fear being perceived that way – especially by someone she may cross paths with who may agree with that perspective,” the petition states. ” Slogans such as this ring too familiar to real life attrocities, such as the recent discovery of Rolf Harris’s sexual assaults; enacting on a girl as young as eight.
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http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/07/13/3459582/the-most-sexist-advertising-slogans-of-all-time/
An Australian camping company has come under fire for painting insulting, misogynistic, and racist slogans on its fleet of vans.
Wicked Campervans, a budget travel option marketed toward tourists looking to explore Australia on the cheap, boasts brightly colored vans outfitted with loud graffiti artwork. Its slogans are far less, cheerful, however:
“In every princess, there’s a little slut who wants to try it just once”
“A wife: an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done”
“Fat girls are harder to kidnap”
“To all virgins: Thanks for nothing”
‘A blowjob is a great last minute gift!’
‘I wouldn’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die!’
‘Save the whales, harpoon a Jap”
Paula Orbea, a Sydney high school teacher, became horrified when her 11-year-old daughter came home from a trip and started quoting the messages painted on the vans. She kicked off a Change.org petition calling on company founder John Webb to “[e]liminate misogynistic and degrading slogans and imagery,” a push that has attracted more than 18,000 supporters.
“My daughter was upset by this because she felt, as a girl, that the slogan was refering to her and it made her fear being perceived that way – especially by someone she may cross paths with who may agree with that perspective,” the petition states. ” Slogans such as this ring too familiar to real life attrocities, such as the recent discovery of Rolf Harris’s sexual assaults; enacting on a girl as young as eight.
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http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/07/13/3459582/the-most-sexist-advertising-slogans-of-all-time/
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it does boggle the mind. 
