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sheshe2

(83,347 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:32 PM Jun 2014

40 Of The Most Powerful Social Issue Ads That’ll Make You Stop And Think

Advertising Agency: DDB&CO., Istanbul, Turkey
Your Skin Color Shouldn’t Dictate Your Future



Advertising Agency: BBDO Bangkok, Thailand
See how easy feeding the hungry can be?



Advertising Agency: Big Ant International, New York, USA
UN Women: Auto-Complete Shows Perceptions Of Women




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40 Of The Most Powerful Social Issue Ads That’ll Make You Stop And Think (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2014 OP
... sheshe2 Jun 2014 #1
... sheshe2 Jun 2014 #2
The Iraq War ones were prophetic Warpy Jun 2014 #3
Yes and I thank you Warpy. sheshe2 Jun 2014 #4
... sheshe2 Jun 2014 #5
Thank you, she~ Cha Jun 2014 #6
Love ya Cha! eom sheshe2 Jun 2014 #7
Luv ya back~ Cha Jun 2014 #8
kick & recommended. William769 Jun 2014 #9
Thanks William. sheshe2 Jun 2014 #10
Sorry I have been absent been serving pizza's to disruptor's all evening. William769 Jun 2014 #11
Your absence is appreciated! sheshe2 Jun 2014 #12
Now if I can just find the damn jar! William769 Jun 2014 #13
Well.............if you can't. Then look for.... sheshe2 Jun 2014 #14
Thank you for spending your evening doing that. It is greatly appreciated. uppityperson Jun 2014 #17
Kicking... sheshe2 Jun 2014 #15
Many of these ads are genuinely stupid. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #16

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
3. The Iraq War ones were prophetic
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:21 PM
Jun 2014

The auto complete ones are disgusting. Men have a lot of work to do to change the vicious attitudes among their brothers toward the female half of the human race.

sheshe2

(83,347 posts)
4. Yes and I thank you Warpy.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:27 PM
Jun 2014
Men have a lot of work to do to change the vicious attitudes among their brothers toward the female half of the human race.

sheshe2

(83,347 posts)
10. Thanks William.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 10:52 PM
Jun 2014

I have no clue why this was ignored for hours and sank like a stone.

I checked to see if it was a repeat before I posted it.

Luv ya!

sheshe2

(83,347 posts)
12. Your absence is appreciated!
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 11:02 PM
Jun 2014

Pizza Pizza!

Thank you for serving them...........my tip is in the jar! I love MIRT!

I saw some that were removed. Ya'll rock!

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
16. Many of these ads are genuinely stupid.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 12:30 AM
Jun 2014

And are right only for all the wrong reasons. In other words, the literal rhetoric is true but the symbolic rhetoric says just the opposite.

For instance, what is superimposing the image of a Google search over the mouth of a woman doing other than furthering the rhetoric that women can't speak? And why is only the infant of color the one whose future profession is portrayed? And why do we have to think of an animal as being another animal in order to feel bad for its plight?

I really truly hate most ad campaigns, especially ones which claim to be on "social issues," because they play on our emotions by using whatever stupid image they think might make us react when in actuality they're just furthering stereotypes and ignorance through empty philosophy.

Is the only thing holding someone back from donating to needy children not seeing that specific ad of the poor third world child in the bottom of their grocery cart? I find that pretty doubtful. I think the ad campaigns do more to feed our egos, by making us believe we're doing something when we are not, than to actually make change.

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