Women as Billboards

I had a few places I had to go to this morning. On my way back to my apartment, I stopped by this traffic light (it was red btw) to my left is this restaurant/bar that many people from the university go to regularly. Between the two streets, the street I was on and the street the restaurant is on, stood a woman wearing nothing but her bikini holding up a sign that said that this restaurant was holding an outdoor barbeque tonight @7.

Did they really have to let this poor women out in the middle of the day, standing on the street holding up a sign, wearing nothing but her bikini? It was 30 degrees (C) outside, it was hot in American standards.

That is so degrading. Having a women wear that just to attract attention to some barbeque is a shame. It is one of countless examples that people use women to advertise for something that has nothing to do with their bodies! (check out Godaddy.com’s Superbowl commercials here). There is this ad for ecko unltd shoes (I couldn’t find the ad online) where they are advertising a normal sport shoe, with a woman wearing a bikini crawling on the floor while the shoe is wrapped with gold barbwire. The commercial has nothing to do with the shoe!

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PPS: Godaddy.com hosts this website

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    1. Gravatar Icon 1 KashCool Jun 1st, 2006 at 10:27 pm

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    2. Gravatar Icon 2 Fawaz Al-Daihani Jun 2nd, 2006 at 12:13 am

      I totally agree with you Yazeed.. Using women like that is a total disgrace and a shame.. It is degrading to women to use them like this..
      But I have to mention that any women stupid enough to be persuaded to do that does actually deserve to be degraded.. I know that sounds stupid but “come on”.. Why would a women do that to herself..
      On the other hand, don’t forget that in advertising “sex sells”..
      I seriously condemn it..

    3. Gravatar Icon 3 Farooha Jun 2nd, 2006 at 10:49 pm

      It’s sad the lengths people would go to to objectify women, man…

      Yazeed, let’s you and I pray for a day where either men get real high that other means “sell,” or men are equally exploited w bas!
      Amen!

    4. Gravatar Icon 4 Yazeed Jun 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 am

      lol

    5. Gravatar Icon 5 Ms. Baker Jun 3rd, 2006 at 12:47 pm

      Yazeed-

      The question is, why are guys so easily manipulated just by the sight of a woman’s semi nude body? The answer is not just “testosterone” because men have brains ansd souls and are not slaves to their hormones….or should NOT be that is…

      I see it two ways: yes, the woman is degrading herself - but she is part of the manipulation and knows it. She will get money to buy herself bread. She used what she had to pay her rent. Therefore, she is part of the power scheme over men.

      But it is the MEN who allow themselves to be degraded by allowing and being influenced by this, because the overlooked inherent subliminal message is : DUDES, YOU HAVE NO SELF CONTROL, YOU ARE RULED BY YOUR TESTOSTERONE AND ARE A TOTAL SUCKER.

      SUCKER.

      That’s the way I see it.

      MsB the humanist (not feminist), who thinks men need to awaken and put a stop to such nonsense just as much as women do…

    6. Gravatar Icon 6 Yazeed Jun 3rd, 2006 at 12:58 pm

      MsB

      I didn’t go to the barbeque, if that’s what you’re asking :P

    7. Gravatar Icon 7 Ms. Baker Jun 3rd, 2006 at 6:16 pm

      Yazeed -

      Considering your interest in Russians and Austrians - and I will leave it at that- (;P ;P) I would say you are far too sophisticated and worldly for bikini girl barbecues…

      MsB, who is teasing and thinks you are an extremely intelligent young man with a nice sense of humor and plenty of good breeding thrown in for good measure ;)

    8. Gravatar Icon 8 Yazeed Jun 4th, 2006 at 1:30 am

      MsB

      gosh, ur like the nicest person who comments in this blog :)
      might setup an award for something like that in the future :P
      thanks again

    9. Gravatar Icon 9 Mekal K. Faruki Nov 25th, 2006 at 9:24 pm

      mashallah. what shall we name this award?

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