Somebody Please Help Me Pull Out This Ad
My husband and I travel via EDSA almost daily to go to work. Especially in the morning, as EDSA transforms into a big parking lot, it is inevitable for those who pass by to see all those commercial billboards scattered throughout EDSA.
I really don't mind being called prudish but there is this particular ad found between Guadalupe going to Estrella (just after San Carlos Seminary and Bahay Pari) that I'm hoping will be pulled out soon (or put down, for that matter).
The ad is by Jag and the model is Angel Locsin. It seems that Angel has agreed to move out of the angelic image and into a more daring (mature?) look. What impression does Angel want to potray in that kind of pose? She's already revealing most of her "hinaharap". It's not the same sweet girl impression that she exudes when she's talking during interviews. Or maybe Jag is trying to be a local version of Guess USA with its ads filled with models clad in very revealing and skimpy outfits. Hmmm...maybe.
Anyway, I just want to say that as a wife and mother, I think we deserve better ads from these sellers. I believe that they can be more creative than that. Ads can still gather attention and a following in another (but more wholesome) way given the right marketing strategy.
Please help me put down this ad because everytime I see this picture, I am bothered. As parents, we want to raise our children properly. We want our children to realize that our bodies are gifts from God and should be respected. I fear that if these kinds of ads continue to proliferate around Metro Manila, sooner or later, they will be adversely influenced which might lead them to think that that is the "in" way of dressing or that if you don't dress up like that, you're "manang" or outcasted. As a wife, I also don't want my dear husband to "enjoy" looking at those kinds of pictures. Men are very visual. Thus, any man passing by EDSA (including the priests and seminarians from San Carlos) can immediately lust over such ads.
So if any one of you know someone I can write to or call in order to persuade them to put down this ad or if you are the one responsible for this ad, please send me a comment.
Thanks a lot!
A pic of the ad from afar...
I really don't mind being called prudish but there is this particular ad found between Guadalupe going to Estrella (just after San Carlos Seminary and Bahay Pari) that I'm hoping will be pulled out soon (or put down, for that matter).
The ad is by Jag and the model is Angel Locsin. It seems that Angel has agreed to move out of the angelic image and into a more daring (mature?) look. What impression does Angel want to potray in that kind of pose? She's already revealing most of her "hinaharap". It's not the same sweet girl impression that she exudes when she's talking during interviews. Or maybe Jag is trying to be a local version of Guess USA with its ads filled with models clad in very revealing and skimpy outfits. Hmmm...maybe.
Anyway, I just want to say that as a wife and mother, I think we deserve better ads from these sellers. I believe that they can be more creative than that. Ads can still gather attention and a following in another (but more wholesome) way given the right marketing strategy.
Please help me put down this ad because everytime I see this picture, I am bothered. As parents, we want to raise our children properly. We want our children to realize that our bodies are gifts from God and should be respected. I fear that if these kinds of ads continue to proliferate around Metro Manila, sooner or later, they will be adversely influenced which might lead them to think that that is the "in" way of dressing or that if you don't dress up like that, you're "manang" or outcasted. As a wife, I also don't want my dear husband to "enjoy" looking at those kinds of pictures. Men are very visual. Thus, any man passing by EDSA (including the priests and seminarians from San Carlos) can immediately lust over such ads.
So if any one of you know someone I can write to or call in order to persuade them to put down this ad or if you are the one responsible for this ad, please send me a comment.
Thanks a lot!
A pic of the ad from afar...
Sorry but I placed a ribbon to cover the part which is so disgustingly revealing...
Follow up blog here.
Comments
nope, i am not a guardian of morality or something. i am just a simple mother and this is my blog (where i can say whatever i want). in addition to what i said, i travel daily from edsa ortigas to buendia in makati. throughout that route, i think that this ad is by far the most sensual thing magnified through a billboard. i just think that this picture is more proper to be in a page of a men's magazine (which people have to pay for) and not fully-blown up like that for the indulgence of kids and adults alike. if you like the ad, then by all means i have no prob with that. i'm just saying that i don't like it.
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instead of making a fuss about that ad then i think what you can do is to either write to jag or to angel locsin which, i suppose, the latter will appreciate.