This ice cream ad has 31 flavours of anti-Catholic blasphemy!!!:
But no need for the Catholic League to get excited — it’s from the UK, where the ad is already being investigated by an advertising standards agency to determine if it violates blasphemy standards (blasphemy standards??).
It could be worse… the nun could be an altar boy.
(via Adfreak)
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Ooooh! Shame and scandal in the nunnery!
This looks to me like what Terry O’Reilly calls deliberately creating a public controversy. It is designed to reign in the public mindset at the cheapest cost.
By having the ad initially rejected and then investigated for blasphemy (?) the focus on the brand is intense.
Further, because no one will run the ad, it costs almost nothing for the publicity.
It could be worse… the nun could be an altar boy.
Ah, but then it would be defensible, right? After all, truth is a defense in these matters….
Mike, the libertarian blasphemer…
It could be worse… the nun could be an altar boy.
Ah, but then no one would believe the priest would be interested in the ice cream.
Dave
Exactly right… good strategy on the part of the agency. They spent way less in production costs for this ad than the value of the media they would have had to buy to get the same awareness.
Mike
Well, now we know why Hamlet told Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery!”
RB
It all depends on product placement
JAB – What’s interesting about this ad is that it apparently only generated one complaint, plus one magazine refusing to run it. Oh my.
Well it’s early days yet, so I expect lots of ranting and raving over this one. Meanwhile I’ll be sitting on the sidelines enjoying the spectacle as they all get into a masturbatory froth over this fresh attack on Catholicism.
And, Dave, I agree that O’Reilly would have a field day with this. Perhaps we should suggest it. Add fuel to the fire as it were..
David B.
Done!
Next, it would be great fun to see an anti-homosexual marriage ad using Carrie Prejean’s soft porn photos. That would get knickers twisted into double and triple knots.
I thought that good evangelical girls didn’t pose in the nude, but I’m obviously very behind the times.
brebis – A bible-thumping hypocrite? Say it ain’t so.
I don’t think Carrie is a good evangelical girl so much as a not very bright publicity whore. Then again, evangelism is a form of publicity.
David B – I don’t know about that… the ad is from the UK, and Donohue generally confines his babbling to things within US borders. Like Chocolate Jesus, and the Folsom Street Fair, and whatever book or movie is making his head explode these days.
Bruce – I think you’re right. *sigh* I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Hmmm, reminds me of those poorly written adult novels that are buried in the back of your local public library. Priests and nuns, pirates and noblewomen, gardeners and lonely wives, etc. It’s all in the re-packaging of an old theme.
Actually, it’s more a form of public prostitution, but yeah.
Donohue generally confines his babbling to things within US borders. Like Chocolate Jesus, and the Folsom Street Fair, and whatever book or movie is making his head explode these days.
And… sho’ ‘nough, Donohue spent his day going after Ron Howard and the newly released movie Angels and Demons.
Beijing – It’s just this side of kinky
Kind of fetish-y.
That said, I think it’s a master stroke of genius on the part of the ad agency. The ad will be pulled, but not before the controversy erupts and spews a lot of free publicity for this client.
Dave – I think I might send this to lifesite and get the ball rolling
“WARNING! DISTURBING IMAGE ATTACHED! PLEASE REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THE ROOM BEFORE VIEWING!”
Good morrow, all!
I suppose you could call that the Mother Superior Position.
But then, I digress…CTZen
I think I might send this to lifesite and get the ball rolling
Absolutely capital idea! Anything to support the designer ice cream industry and promote CONVENTional sex.
Oh yes, David B.
I received a reply from Terry O’Reilly. He said he found it interesting and we would probably be hearing more about this campaign soon.
Oh, more wonderful ad-vangelical hypocrisy! Is too much.
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/05/05/celebrating-mixed-messages/
And I don’t think we should heteronormatively rule out what might be under that habit. With all the clothing in the way, just remember what makeup and attitude accomplished in “The Crying Game”. It’s like… Schroedinger’s gender…and of course, just my part to add to the rumour mills of what’s going on in that picture.
Brebis – Holy cognitive dissonance! How much suspension of disbelief is required to make it through that little maze of mental contortions?
Niles – That occurred to me too, and I took a quick look at her hand to ascertain how “feminine” it looked… ie., dainty, nail polish, rings etc. Hmmm! That hand looks like it might not be the Master of its Domain.