Its a pretty well ingrained sentiment. That is to say that if a women showed her body in public the expected reaction would be for people to stare, ogle, and start filming with their smart phones. And for a man who did the same the expected result would be for women to shriek in horror, men to vomit, and someone to call the cops.

The potential psychological effect that on a person of going through their whole life with the idea that they inhabit a body that can never be considered sexy or attractive or appealing to look at is something I wish could be examined.

@Cute Bruiser: Yes, Rosie the Riveter would have been another great image to use but I feel like it’s been re-appropriated so many times that it doesn’t pack as much of a punch.

Which seem to mean, that I’m a PERVERT.
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If an add was placed indicating that we need to save men, because otherwise we’d be left with only women to make money; would you feel more insulted for the men or the women?

I feel that the unflattering man symbolizes that if women don’t get pap tests then we’ll be missing the most beautiful thing in the world and that’s all of you! WOMEN!!!

And Lisa stop labeling yourselves (women) as objects because in this day in age the only people in NORTH AMERICA who considering women as objects are you. I don’t see women protesting and commenting on the Underwear ads of Calvin Klein, where men are an object? I also don’t see how diet pills and skinny women have anything to do with BC cancer. I didn’t know proper dieting these days is considered cancer!!

I don’t know much about marketing but you can see that a lot of thought was put into this ad to make sure they don’t degrade women and hurt the feelings of people like you. But because you cant find any real fault with it, a negative interpretation of to this ad came through.

I’m not trying to poke harm to the women’s rights but sometimes its just ridiculous. I feel that women these days are equal or even stronger then men which makes me proud of them.