Time for the voice of reason to step in...
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Okay, has anyone seen these new commercials for these new Reebok shoes? The shoes that are supposed to help tone women's butts?
- One commercial features a fitness trainer who talks about how the shoes are designed to help tone women's legs, and butts... and the camera keeps panning down, and tightening on her butt, while she keeps having to motion for the camera to return to her face, etc.
- A new one today features a woman's breasts in a push-up bra, and these extreme close-ups of her breasts "talking" to each other about how jealous they are that men don't stare at them anymore, but rather, the woman's butt because of how toned it's gotten since she's been wearing these Reebok shoes.
You see that? This is PROOF that you can't sell ANYTHING in this world today without incorporating sex into it somehow! What is the matter with people today? !
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Every commercial on TV, past and present, no matter what it involves, or what it's selling is amusing, provocative and at times silly. They provide a laugh or two, but can be BS at times (even though they won't say it). No matter what they're selling, no matter how many times they're constantly shoving it into our faces, we just don't give a (beaver) dam. We'll decide for ourselves what we want to buy or consume.
But in response to your rant there, let me ask you and everyone else here on this board a question. And use your brains...
Which of these things is very likely to, and will damage lives?
A) a cover for an issue of Playboy magazine
B) a gun
Let me give you a hint: There's one right answer, and there's one wrong answer.
The correct answer is...
B) a gun
Of course. If you were a smart person, you'd know this.
This is the problem with America: you people always freak out over sex - the overall concept of it, the desires and thoughts one has when seeing an attractive looking lady nearby that they want to (you know)...anything that gets people "excited"; you all scream in horror over a centerfold spread like the end of the world is drawing near.
But let's cut to the chase, and look at the two distinctions: What is "sex"? It's two people (a man and a woman, traditionally, but not just) doing...whatever it is they do when they decide to...do that thing they do (as much as I want to make a point here, I'm trying to do so without going into too much detail).
And what was going on in the aforementioned commercial? Basically it involved a woman telling us that these new shoes will "help tone your legs and butt", followed by the "sneaky" camera repeatedly zooming in on her butt. Silly, yes. Cheeky (no pun intended), yes. While the overall product may be bogus, there was no sex involved at all.
That's the other problem: people see the female posterior as sexual taboo. You won't believe the comments left by people on Youtube. One user even went as far as to say that he/she was terrified of the commercial, and added that his/her kids were TRAUMATIZED (not kidding, the person really did say that).
After reading these comments, especially the one by that lunatic, I thought to myself, "Gee, are people really this insecure and stupid?"
In any case, this moron needs to know that EVERY living thing has one of these on their bodies, you see it everyday, you sit on it everyday, what's so "taboo" or scary about it? Get over it. Same with breasts (which only women have). Again, it's just a body part. Nothing to fear about them.
Which brings us to the point: Like it or hate it, or whether you guys (and gals) want to admit it or not, we all have these feelings --- be it fantasizing some hot blonde, or fascinated by T and/or A --- We're all old enough to know these things. And hey, I'm sure some of us even had these feelings before we could talk. It's nothing to be ashamed of. It's a part of human nature as the trees, birds, sky, grass, and whatnot. It's also part of growing up. Nothing ugly about it.
As Captain Zaffino (sp?) from the Garbage Pail Kids Movie said: "Ugliness is not in the mirror. Ugliness is cruelty, meanness of spirit, greed..."
Which is what these idiotic religious, family values, and "fake feminist" groups as well as the ---holes in government (like Bush) represent; these twits fuss over a "scandalous" magazine cover, or a "dirty" billboard, or regulate "entertainment", and yet they lie, cheat, steal, etc. (and this is always the case). Childish hypocrites they certainly are.
And besides, without sex, none of us would even be here today.
To finish things off: My advice for people who go ballistic over this kind of stuff is...
Stop overreacting and grow up. Take a class. Get some knowledge.