Being a big kid at heart, one of my (many) failings is chocolate. I adore it and eat far too much of the stuff.
Feeling a bit low today, I decided that I needed a packet of delicious "Minstrels" to help cheer me up. Clutching my fifty pence piece, like a kid with his pocket money, I made my way to the nearest shop, grabbed a packet of the delicious “melt in your mouth, not in your hand” treats and paid for them.
It was my intention to eat them when I returned to my desk, but temptation being what it is, I pulled them from my pocket only to notice this:
Now, call me prudish, if you want, but don’t you think it is inappropriate to advertise something as vulgar and trashy as “Sex in the City” on chocolates bought by young (and not so young) kids?
I’m not one for immediately criticising something, simply because it is a bit risqué, but please, this TV show is banal, poorly written and trades on its morally objectionable and vulgar sub plots. I don’t have children, but if I did, I would not want advertising for this dangerous nonsense on my children’s sweets.
What do you think?
Monday, 23 June 2008
Not impressed!
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9 comments:
I agree with you totally. It's actually the film which is being advertised, but that's just as bad. It has actually made me reconsider my chocolate purchasing habits - at least until the end of this ad campaign!
What do I think? I think you should have scarfed that chocolate down and THEN taken a picture. Time's-a-wastin'.
As for S-in-the-City haven't ever seen it, but I would assume with a name like that it would be trashy!
Whatever possessed the Galaxy people?
I agree. Virgin are as bad. They have a sleazy advert trying to persuade people to use their TV services. it's just unpleasant-and puts me off completely.
Quite right. It would put me off buying them. email the company - it's the only way they'll stop.The fact that I have to explain their skanky posters on every street corner when we are in the car is pain in the neck.
not to be a stickler (Unless we are talking about the great late Cardinal) its actually "Sex AND the City". Lots of folks make this mistake and it in no way takes away from your point of which i agree. Nothing with "sex" in the title should be used on products that would appeal to children.
Hi,
You will have heard the saying that Religion is the opium of the people. It would be truer to say that sex and alcohol is the opium of the people. If they get plenty of both they will not think about reality. You must have noticed most young people are hooked and you can't be hooked and attend Mass, so they don't.
Frinders
Very true!
That show is right up there with "Desperate Housewives". You can only image the looks on faces in the congregation when father asked if anyone had taped last weeks episodes of both shows as he had been on retreat and couldn't watch them....
You are absolutely right. Even secular psychologists have asserted that intruding upon the innocence and latency of childhood with sexuality beyond their years -- and moreover, a decadent sexuality -- will disrupt the healthy and wholesome, moral and psychological integration and development of the entire personality.
I don't think it's ever a matter of being "prudish" -- I think we as adults have failed to react enough -- have failed to push back with healthy violence at the rising tide of moral decadence to stop its insidious, if at times subtle and not so subtle (on CANDY???!!!!) advance. It's debasing entire civilizations. And our poor children will be the first and most tragic victims.....children having children, broken marriages, confused and reckless sexuality ....and this is the future of our world.
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