Advert Angst
May. 16th, 2004 11:40 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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transI was innocently watching television earlier tonight and an advert for Walls Cornettto came on. As to the content of the advert...I really could not believe it, but when the advert appeared a second time, my disgust was evident.
The advert started with some guys on a beach and one has a cornetto. A women appears from a cave and asks the guy with the cornetto to give it to her. When he replies 'Why should I?', she whispers in his ear 'I'm really a man. Give me the ice cream and I won't tell your mates', who then started flirting with her. It was all sang, of course, but that didn't change the context.
Funny it may well be, but this is based on Something About Miriam, that documentary that raised a media storm when a MTF transsexual 'fooled three guys into thinking she was a woman'.
Basically, it's supporing the idea that MTFs are out to trick guys. I had hoped that Miriam would be the end of it, but this advert shows it obviously isn't. Hopefully this concept won't enter public thought, but it scares me if it does. It makes us look like con-merchants, out to trick ordinary people for our own sexual gain. And as you well know, this most certainly isn't the case.
Perhaps I'm overreacting, but still...it worries me...
The advert started with some guys on a beach and one has a cornetto. A women appears from a cave and asks the guy with the cornetto to give it to her. When he replies 'Why should I?', she whispers in his ear 'I'm really a man. Give me the ice cream and I won't tell your mates', who then started flirting with her. It was all sang, of course, but that didn't change the context.
Funny it may well be, but this is based on Something About Miriam, that documentary that raised a media storm when a MTF transsexual 'fooled three guys into thinking she was a woman'.
Basically, it's supporing the idea that MTFs are out to trick guys. I had hoped that Miriam would be the end of it, but this advert shows it obviously isn't. Hopefully this concept won't enter public thought, but it scares me if it does. It makes us look like con-merchants, out to trick ordinary people for our own sexual gain. And as you well know, this most certainly isn't the case.
Perhaps I'm overreacting, but still...it worries me...