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More commercials I can't stand: Virgin Atlantic sets us back 50 years
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Really, Virgin Atlantic? You couldn't have made a commercial without the horrific gender stereotypes? Apparently they want us to live in a world where the men are the pilots and the businessmen, and the (skinny, white) women are flight attendants dressed in short red skirts and stripper heels. Thanks, Virgin, for your big middle finger to the feminist movement.
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November 14, 2011 at 12:13 PM
I'm not sure when this ad was created, so Virgin could be trying to take advantage of "Pan Am" and the "glorious" air travel depicted therein. Regardless, ain't patriarchy grand?
Did anyone else notice that the flight attendants' skirt hems rose and fell in different parts of the ad? I didn't check for other instances, but early in the ad when the women are walking as a group, their skirts appear to be barely "fingertip" length, yet at the end where the two women are talking, their skirts stop just above the knee. So, women who speak have to be covered up? Or, do shorter skirts require silence? WHAT are they trying to tell us?!? I am sooo confused... LOL
I'm really not surprised Virgin took this tact... especially considering they have none.
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