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[xenologer]

Advertisers ban the V-word. American Public saved from indelicacy.

The venerable menstrual supply company Kotex recently decided it was time to shake things up with an ad campaign that used, gasp, the word vagina. Fortunately for us delicate Americans, according to the New York Times, all three major networks refused to run the ad, saying the word vagina is not suitable for broadcast. When the ad company, JWT, changed the wording to "down there"…only two networks turned it down.

Hilarity.

Comments

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Free speech doesn't mean it's ok to shout "vulva" in a crowded theater.

Or something.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Or even while walking along the beach in soft-focus.

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Especially not.

You know, maybe they should start making ads that are suggestive in the same way that throwing a football through a tire swing suggests getting a boner... somehow. Like, the roof could be leaking, and the woman could put a bucket under it and then smile with extra-special satisfaction. Or she could mop a floor, put up some of those yellow collapsible caution signs, and someone else could pat her on the shoulder and say, "way to go" or something.

Or... I don't know, it's hard to come up with these. Like, what would be a cramps euphemism, or an appropriate visual metaphor for getting knocked up vs not getting knocked up?

ooh, I know - she could be out pulling weeds with satisfaction. "That'll show you for trying to grow here... you opportunistic little bastard."

This is why I don't work in advertising.

[archmage-brian.livejournal.com]

I actually think the whole bucket under leaking roof commercial is fucking genius.

Also, this link is relevant. I promise.

Maybe this isn't oblique enough.

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

"As a gardener, I like to decide what foreign life grows in my personal space. That's why I use Ovublox. It keeps the babies out."

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Like, what would be a cramps euphemism

Since violence on TV is still acceptable, how about: Tying a thick rope tightly around the abdomen-midsection of someone, shoving them off the corner of a three-story building, and tying the rope off to let them dangle for a few hours ten feet above the sidewalk? That'd be similar.