Rejected & Banned Ads.

By Alex in Art, Pictures on Dec 1, 2005 at 6:04 am

From the website:

"Mattel sent The Body Shop a cease-and-desist order, demanding to pull the self-esteem posters featuring Ruby – a rubenesque anti-Barbie – from American shop windows, because she was insulting to the real Barbie. Then, in Hong Kong, posters of Ruby were banned on the Mass Transit Railway because authorities said that in her nude (albeit nippleless and pubic-hair-free) condition, she would offend passengers. One shop in the US was forced to take down a Ruby poster after a mall patron said his daughter had been traumatized by seeing it."

For other rejected and banned ads, see: Best Rejected Advertising (click on the trash can).

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Alison
Dec 2nd, 2005 at 12:24 am
Precious bloody idiots.
Nina
Dec 2nd, 2005 at 11:55 pm
I have to agree with Alison!
Oyvind
Dec 4th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
This ad was on display in Body Shops in Norway some years ago. And on free postcards. I think it ran as a newspaper ad as well.
corinna
Dec 8th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
this is so odd! i am doing a paper looking at the research done on the effects of dolls on girls and boys’ body images and someone told me about this and couldn’t find it. then because of my blog http://www.dollybody.blogspot.com a friend sent me the link to this.

strange world.

i think she’s beautiful – i want that dolly! plus she reminds me of me!

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