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PiscesPretzel Ads Twist Body Image
We came across these N.Y.C. bus-shelter ads for Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps on the site Sociological Images. Some found the taglines disturbing. Concerned citizens plastered information about anorexia over the "You can never be too thin" line, adding the words, "Actually, you can."
Do you think these ads perpetuate a negative body-image stereotype?
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As a woman who has struggled with eating disorders and poor body image all her life, these ads were designed in extremely poor tastes. Ridiculous and definitely offensive.
ewwwwwww assholes! as a girl struggling with an ED, i will never buy this stupid product. how dare they send out that message!
I think the pun is that the pretzels are thin “crisps,” but I have to agree that it is in poor taste.
I battled with Bulimia, but honestly, I don’t find these offensive. If you don’t like the ad, don’t buy the product.
WTF that is awful, why would they even think that was a good idea? as if our society doesn’t already have a screwed up sense of how we are ‘supposed’ to look.
WTF that is awful, why would they even think that was a good idea? as if our society doesn’t already have a screwed up sense of how we are ‘supposed’ to look.
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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The anorexia motto: “nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels”, that ad is such a play on that and I find it incredibly offensive and in such bad taste.