What always gets me, is... Not a single person in the chain that handled the ads...no marketing director, no photographer, no prepress tech, no Jr executive... Not a single one looked at these images and said, "WTF" or even "Hey, maybe this isn't the best idea..." nobody in a boardroom or office bothered to suggest that featuring BDSM themes with children is sure to "cause controversy", "create a public backlash", or most importantly to a company, "harm the bottom line"...? No one had the brains or balls to point this out?
Okay yeah they're probably evil pedophiles.
But at best - even if I'm being generous - they're a bunch of fucking morons.
Truth is probably somewhere in between those extemes. Bosses with ideas and the e-sheep-like followers in lock-step. You all know the type: their noses are so far up into the boss's rectal cavity that if the boss turns a corner too tight you'll hear an audible snap! as they all simultaneously fracture their necks. Oh, also cowards too scared of offending the boss or not having a paycheck to stand up and proclaim "this ad is a shit sandwich".
What always gets me, is... Not a single person in the chain that handled the ads...no marketing director, no photographer, no prepress tech, no Jr executive... Not a single one looked at these images and said, "WTF" or even "Hey, maybe this isn't the best idea..." nobody in a boardroom or office bothered to suggest that featuring BDSM themes with children is sure to "cause controversy", "create a public backlash", or most importantly to a company, "harm the bottom line"...? No one had the brains or balls to point this out?
Okay yeah they're probably evil pedophiles.
But at best - even if I'm being generous - they're a bunch of fucking morons.
Truth is probably somewhere in between those extemes. Bosses with ideas and th e-sheep-like followers in lock-step. You all know the type: their noses are so far up into the boss's rectal cavity that if the boss turns a corner too tight you'll hear an audible snap! as they all simultaneously fracture their necks. Oh, also cowards too scared of offending the boss or not having a paycheck to stand up and proclaim "this ad is a shit sandwich".
What always gets me, is... Not a single person in the chain that handled the ads...no marketing director, no photographer, no prepress tech, no Jr executive... Not a single one looked at these images and said, "WTF" or even "Hey, maybe this isn't the best idea..." nobody in a boardroom or office bothered to suggest that featuring BDSM themes with children is sure to "cause controversy", "create a public backlash", or most importantly to a company, "harm the bottom line"...? No one had the brains or balls to point this out?
Okay yeah they're probably evil pedophiles.
But at best - even if I'm being generous - they're a bunch of fucking morons.
Truth is probably somewhere in between those extemes. Bosses with ideas and th e sheep-like followers in lock-step. You all know the type: their noses are so far up into the boss's rectal cavity that if the boss turns a corner too tight you'll hear an audible snap! as they all simultaneous fracture their necks. Oh, also cowards too scared of offending the boss or not having a paycheck to stand up and proclaim "this ad is a shit sandwich".
What always gets me, is... Not a single person in the chain that handled the ads...no marketing director, no photographer, no prepress tech, no Jr executive... Not a single one looked at these images and said, "WTF" or even "Hey, maybe this isn't the best idea..."
At worst, they're malicious pedophiles.
At best, they're all fucking morons.