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In reply to the discussion: Belvedere Vodka Unveils Horrific Ad Acting Out Rape Scene [View all]ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)103. bizarre
Any inoffensive meaning that they might have thought that they were showing is so obscure as to be incomprehensible...I've been looking at this for a while now and I just can't figure out what else they might have been trying to convey with this. Given the image and the language the only interpretation of this that makes sense to me is that she doesn't want to go down on him and he is trying to keep her from getting away...not funny at all and, yes, very offensively makes light of sexual assault.
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Yeah there seem to be an awful lot of "I'm sorry people were offended" non-apologies made these days
PoliticAverse
Mar 2012
#51
Can't see at my office, but will check when I get home late tonight. nt
Snake Alchemist
Mar 2012
#48
As someone who has been known to call others hypersensitive about such things at times
DefenseLawyer
Mar 2012
#12
People generally don't look terrified when falling off the couch, and falling off the couch is not
Brickbat
Mar 2012
#27
I never saw him grab a woman. I remember him with the biggest slim jim I've ever seen though. nt
Snake Alchemist
Mar 2012
#49
If the ad depicted a Jew being pushed into an oven or a black man being lynched, we'd...
Poll_Blind
Mar 2012
#58
exactly!! Sex, however is FUNNY, so forcing or pranking women is just
BlancheSplanchnik
Mar 2012
#82
First, it's terribly naive to think that aggression is the only expression a rapist could have
MrScorpio
Mar 2012
#80
What agency wrote this nasty copy!? Is Belvedere a new sponsor for Limbaugh?
myrna minx
Mar 2012
#72
Is that lipstick tube reflecting the size of the guys dick? No doubt!
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2012
#76