How about 5) People who can't take a joke?
Ah, that would lend them a convenient win-win situation, wouldn’t it? Of course, the ad is meant to appeal to whomever, so if those people think it is clever, mission accomplished. But when the other side claims it’s offensive, well no problem, because it was just a joke, right? They should lighten up!
I've seen much more raw (racist) jokes flourish
I hope that’s not
actually intended as justification.
Hint: it's funny because it's based on something true.
Again, I’m not seeing why that should be justification. If tobacco companies showed their consumers dying in hospitals from lung cancer, would that be funny, because it’s true?
How about making the dying people into caricatures who comically take one last swig off the cigarette, look at the camera, then say, “I’d die for that.†Then fall down dead. Ah, it’s so funny, because the guy chose to smoke all his life, and he died, ha.
If you consider this out of context because cigarettes kill while posting pictures of your girlfriend’s naughty bits doesn’t “harm†anyone, try looking at it from another perspective.
Both take otherwise tragic real-life situations and try to put a humorous spin on them, all for the sake of getting into your pocket, even though of course it means keeping the travesty going.
Of course, in my example, most people can actually see the tragic side to the story, so it won’t quite work as well as hiding the tragedy in an empty meaningless shallow relationship.
But seeing it in an ad doesn't force you to goddamn duplicate it, as little as playing GTA forces you to steal cars
I’m not sure you’re seeing the point.
I never at all suggested that the problem with laughing at their ads is that it would force me to then become the people in the ads doomed to a life of failed relationships.
I’m not laughing at their ads because it’s a
personal offense. Why is it personal? Why wouldn’t it be? I’m the target of that ad, aren’t I? I’m the one they want to buy their products. So, doesn’t that suggest somehow that they must have tailored that ad for me? So, doesn’t that suggest that they think I’m a self-righteous male-supremist prick who wouldn’t know a meaningful relationship if it bit me on the ass? I sense some friction!
Hark! For me to consider their ad a direct insult to my character and intelligence must mean I am too sensitive! After all, I’ve never had a problem with Nintendo’s ads or Microsoft’s ads, even though I don’t even like Microsoft, so of course it’s my own sensitivity that would cause an issue out of the blue where none had been before.
And yet, millions of others noticed this same level of offense and one guy even found it worthy of mentioning in an article.
if you shun this joke and claim "I would never treat my girlfriend like that", you're probably either a) lying
Well, obviously not in my case.
or b) haven't been in a long-term relationship.
Again, I’m not sure why this is relevant. Are you
actually suggesting that all long-term relationships involving male gamers must somehow, at some point, include a stage where the male posts stickers of his girlfriend’s naughty bits on his day-to-day tools? I’ll give you grace in the issue of “pointless†questions, only because there usually is some point where
both sides have some tussle and feel the other side’s questions/issues are pointless. But I’m not sure why encouraging them to “escape†from it is more responsible than encouraging them to work it out.
There are extremely few "perfect matches" out there, live with it.
Oh, I certainly live with it. I just don’t try to turn it into a comical situation to extort money from people.
Bet you if the ad had featured women using PSPs in similar, slightly sexist ways, there wouldn't be a beep worth of complaints
Again, not the issue.
#1: No, I wouldn’t care if people attacked me in the same way. Why? Because I myself can handle it. I decided on my own to simply ignore it. Others may feel bad for me, just as I would feel bad for them being attacked, but because I can handle my own attacks means I am a hypocrite?
#2: That’s not the issue; my anger doesn’t stem from them attacking one group or another. It stems from them assuming I am clueless to the concept of a meaningful relationship, then trying to put a happy spin on that to get into my wallet.
I just get fumed up by uptight, ultra-sensitive (and often hypocritical) politically correct "feminists" who get all riled up about a relatively harmless joke just because it's about women.
Again this was never the issue.
As I stated one post ago, the issues governing sexual equality are not areas where I care to tread.
I
thought I had made this clear in my reply to Sad Jari.
Yes, I used my girlfriend (when I have one) as an example to relate to the situation, but the issue here is
personal. It isn’t about the attacks they made to
them, it’s about the ways they offended
me.
L. Spiro