finally, my fist in your face

[rone]

I saw one of these billboards on the train home on Monday, but i forgot to share with you all its immense stupidity. You're welcome.

Comments

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing: I see clearly how it could be offensive to others, but I reject that dynamic as being just the kind of politically correct distinction that I loathe. I personally don't believe that collecting offense and overjudging one's environment makes the world a better place, so I try to be unoffendable. I don't always succeed, but mostly.

I personally don't believe people should be offended, even by the worst and most loathsome racism imaginable. I think people should be unoffendable, and not let things in their world coopt their emotions out from under them. I don't think we ought to give others a bristling arsenal of alphabetic weapons to use against us. I'm a word guy, though, so that probably figures into it. So, that's my opinion about that.

Anyway, I think if you had a Baskin Robbins ad for a new kind of vanilla, and the tagline was "Finally...a cold blonde", you would sell one hell of a lot of ice cream.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Like i said, you should go into advertising, then. I'm not hip with comparing women to ice cream or beer, especially not as a way to try to sell my products.

"I think people should be unoffendable" is foolishness. You're saying that we shouldn't let other people affect our emotions negatively; it's one thing to temper our reactions, but to suppress them is baloney.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, not suppression, it's just about choosing how I will interact with the world.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

If you choose to not provide any feedback to things that affect you negatively, i would suggest that it sounds like a less than healthy way to go through life.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree.