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Funny? Tacky? Sad? No way in hell I'm picking sides.
With Bush nabbing only 16% of Manhattan voters way back in 2004, those ads aren't exactly risky. I thought of them more as pandering than subversive.
The Brad, I find the coat hanger on the "Right to Choose" billboard a little ewwy.
And in Manhattan, these ads barely qualify as edgy.
Now the real issue is having so much crap it exceeds your living space. Down with storage facilities!
I get the double entendre. I think it's in poor taste, though. Just as some people can't help but think of the mechanics of two men having sex when they hear the term "gay marriage" I can't help but think of what that hanger is meant to do when I see it in conjunction with a right to choose statement.
I'm certainly too sensitive to work in NY advertising. I'm sort of glad about that.
and politically risky, then I have the exact opposite feeling you do about it: not gratitude but bitterness.
If political "irreverence" were really tolerated, even promoted, in this country over the past decade and especially over the past six years, this country would be a different place than what it is today.
We live in an unbelievably conservative society- don't let the Manhattan bubble fool you into thinking otherwise.
But, that was designed by ad executives and seems a better description would be "ingratiating" which is tacky.
Let's wrap everything in black cotton and get permission to speak. Let's make 'The Handmaid's Tale' a documentary. I am 100% ok with that. Let's kill America before it kills us.
