Ran across an interesting item in my book research on advertising. It seems that a trade group called the Advertising Women of New York gives out awards each year for the TV and print ads it considers the most offensive for the previous year.
On the list of sexist ads for 2004 are a Pamela Anderson spot for Sirius Satellite Radio in which she buffs a car witth her derriere and a Miller beer ad featuring two women in bikinis in a catfight.
But as an example of a “positive” ad, reports The Wall Street Journal, the advertising women’s group offered a MasterCard ad showing a women opening a can of pickles after “her weakling husband fails the test.”
Ah, progressives.
