by Tdarcos » Wed May 19, 2021 3:45 pm
pinback wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:28 pm
I was going to mention how most ads now, if there's a couple, it's a mixed-race couple. Then I just (30 seconds ago) saw a Credit Karma ad where the couple was a black and white dude in bed.
Now that gay marriage has been legal in this country for six years, I think it's perfectly reasonable to show same-sex couples, and even mixed-races ones. As a notary public, I once took a home loan refinancing application from two men whose actions of care and concern for each other perfectly matched a heterosexual couple. One was white, and the other was black.
I heard similar comments (without the racial undertones) about an ad campaign probably thirty years ago where American Express was offering dual signature traveler's checks, in which you and the person you're traveling with (husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend) could sign the back and either of you could use them instead of having to split them and have some issued to one partner and some issued to the other. What irritated some people is how American Express put ads for them in gay-related publications and gay-oriented newspapers (like the
Washington Blade) and showed male couples in the ads.
pinback wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:28 pm
It's such pandering horseshit, I can't believe it. If you offer a service, I am going to, in
good faith, assume you also offer the service to jungle fever homos.
That's about as an unthinking and nasty comment as if I were to say that "your comment was the kind I'd expect from an alcoholic who used deception to hide his drinking from his wife."
One of the ways that it can be inferred as to an organization's compliance with anti-discrimination laws is how people are pictured in its ads. One real estate company got in trouble over its tendency to prefer white buyers over non-white ones. In their newspaper ads, all the photos of happy couples were while, while support staff (like gardeners) at the apartment complex were almost always shown as black. No black or mixed-race customer couples were shown in their ads.
pinback wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:28 pm
If you have to spend part of your 30 seconds to prove it to me, then you're both insulting me, as well as making sure none of the redneck bigoted assholes that make up 40% of this country ever use your service.
Well, if those "redneck bigoted assholes" would rather pay for a service from some other company that Credit Karma offers for free, then they're probably too stupid to manage their money anyway, and Credit Karma doesn't need to handle the credit checks from your West Virginia trailer-trash crystal meth smoking ass and your first-cousin underage baby mama.
pinback wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:28 pm
It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call.
If that's a quote from one of the
Alien franchise movies, I don't recognize it.
[quote=pinback post_id=121086 time=1621204088 user_id=5]
I was going to mention how most ads now, if there's a couple, it's a mixed-race couple. Then I just (30 seconds ago) saw a Credit Karma ad where the couple was a black and white dude in bed.[/quote]
Now that gay marriage has been legal in this country for six years, I think it's perfectly reasonable to show same-sex couples, and even mixed-races ones. As a notary public, I once took a home loan refinancing application from two men whose actions of care and concern for each other perfectly matched a heterosexual couple. One was white, and the other was black.
I heard similar comments (without the racial undertones) about an ad campaign probably thirty years ago where American Express was offering dual signature traveler's checks, in which you and the person you're traveling with (husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend) could sign the back and either of you could use them instead of having to split them and have some issued to one partner and some issued to the other. What irritated some people is how American Express put ads for them in gay-related publications and gay-oriented newspapers (like the [i]Washington Blade[/i]) and showed male couples in the ads.
[quote=pinback post_id=121086 time=1621204088 user_id=5]
It's such pandering horseshit, I can't believe it. If you offer a service, I am going to, in [i]good faith[/i], assume you also offer the service to jungle fever homos.[/quote] That's about as an unthinking and nasty comment as if I were to say that "your comment was the kind I'd expect from an alcoholic who used deception to hide his drinking from his wife."
One of the ways that it can be inferred as to an organization's compliance with anti-discrimination laws is how people are pictured in its ads. One real estate company got in trouble over its tendency to prefer white buyers over non-white ones. In their newspaper ads, all the photos of happy couples were while, while support staff (like gardeners) at the apartment complex were almost always shown as black. No black or mixed-race customer couples were shown in their ads.
[quote=pinback post_id=121086 time=1621204088 user_id=5]
If you have to spend part of your 30 seconds to prove it to me, then you're both insulting me, as well as making sure none of the redneck bigoted assholes that make up 40% of this country ever use your service.[/quote]
Well, if those "redneck bigoted assholes" would rather pay for a service from some other company that Credit Karma offers for free, then they're probably too stupid to manage their money anyway, and Credit Karma doesn't need to handle the credit checks from your West Virginia trailer-trash crystal meth smoking ass and your first-cousin underage baby mama.
[quote=pinback post_id=121086 time=1621204088 user_id=5]
It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call.
[/quote]
If that's a quote from one of the [i]Alien[/i] franchise movies, I don't recognize it.