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It's the intention that is relevant to my post. Were Fender's words intended to offend or amuse? With a modicum of resilience and humour, plus a willingness to even consider what was intended I believe it would be hard to be genuinely offended by those words. Sure, you might still find them unfunny, out dated, naive, childish, dumb, annoying, pathetic, or many other things... but offensive?
What I was referring to was the willingness, even desire to take offence that has become so prevalent today. Having a sense of humour could really be the antidote to that, or from a different perspective, it could really get in the way whilst running to the moral high ground.
It's good to read a good few posts on here with people being reasonable.
Worryingly, there are a lot more people who follow others than who work things out themselves using reason. So to avoid the real world becoming that PC nightmare we need to rely on it ceasing to be fashionable.
Just back 10 years when a joke could just be good or shit without being a political issue.
I thought the Brazilians reference was simply to do with Brazilian rosewood?
It does look like a poor attempt at humour. I get they want to have some sort of personality injected into social media.
You see fast food outlets and food manufacturers ribbing each other (see weetabix etc). You can also see companies standing up for equal ops on social media (see Yorkshire tea and PG) and that's handled well. I think it's best to leave comedy to the comedians, as depressing as that may be.
It’s just banter, right?
In isolation, yeah. But when you are getting messages like that from all over, all the time, it builds and it builds and you end up with a bunch of men who think women only exist for their gratification and a bunch of women who think that’s all they’re worth.
It is tiresome.
That's why the "offense" thing comes out, that then enables some people to exert their power on the situation and demand it gets censored.
Whether you or I find it offensive or funny is neither here nor there. Regardless of Fender's intent, the brand should know the risk of any add they place and this one is so obviously going to offend a good number of people.... Plus they just took the moral high ground side in the Dennis affair...
That was my point.
The fact that it managed to objectify women without actually mentioning their gender shows you how engrained the issue is. We all know what the post implies. I’m sure you do too. But still, well done on making a balanced and valid point.
In YOUR end-oh, I say!
In order to draw the conclusion that the author is being sexist, you actually have to assume that he's being sexist in the first place.
Why would you assume that? "Because".
And that's just plain ridiculous. It's the very definition of a circular argument.
Even pointing out how archaic and off-putting to its new young customer base that sort of 'These guitars are sexy Brazilians sitting on your knee like a good girl or round your neck etc etc wink wink vaginas vaginas vaginas!' comments are.
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