Risque Ad: Live It Up in Louisville, Kentucky

Risque Ad: Live It Up in Louisville, Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, KY (AP) -- Want to live it up in a thriving metropolitan city and find a girl with a tattoo on her -- well, in a strange place?

A recent ad campaign launched in Kentucky says all that can happen in Louisville. But some officials aren't laughing at the tongue-in-cheek ads boasting the benefits of "Possibility City."

Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins and other city officials have said several of the ads are in poor taste.

One depicts a young man who wants to get out of fictional Oblivion, Ohio, so he can find a girl with a risque tattoo. Another alludes to warnings on erectile-dysfunction medications, saying happiness lasting more than four hours is normal.

Despite the criticism, the marketing firm that created the campaign said the ads have gotten a positive response.

http://www.news10.net/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=68620&catid=335

With more than half of us cheering all the way.

No.

http://xkcd.com/603/

I'm going to keep posting this until people learn that Idiocracy is not a valid argument.

Second of all, I didn't mean the entire premise of the movie.

Look at the OP... and think about what the story in the OP shares with the movie.

When it has to advertise for people to come move there.

;-)

;-)

Sexism not only occurs when females are objectified... it also occurs when male marketers don't realize that women are human, too, and may want to move to a town because the men are... I don't know... not sexist, great listeners, attractive, stable.

Also advertising for young men to come to town because there are all these women with tattoos doesn't take into consideration two points:
1. The women may not like the man from Ohio. He may be a sexist pig or a phony or a dolt; and
2. If you're not attracting enough women to meet said demand (because you're not equally advertising to them), then you're effectively baiting and switching.


P.S. Why are there Hooters in nearly every metropolitan area, but no place of equal standing in nearly every community for women to be served chocolate by handsome young men?

I certainly find many, if not most of the Metro Council offensive as they are a collection of corporate stooges, nannystaters, authoritarians, wimpy faux liberals, wimpy real liberals, corporate nanny staters, country club Republicans, and Reich Wingers.

A totally worthless ensemble.

Anyone lured there by anything, including these ads, is likely to be sorely disappointed.