{"id":24793,"date":"2010-06-23T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24793"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:10:00","slug":"spirit-airlines-ads-joke-about-oil-spill-and-objectify-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/23\/spirit-airlines-ads-joke-about-oil-spill-and-objectify-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines Ads Joke about Oil Spill. And Objectify Women."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/06\/spirit-airlines-doubles-down-on-offensiveness-for-new-ad-campaign.php\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> has an article about a new advertising campaign from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit Airlines<\/a> (as of this morning the images are still available on their homepage, though I presume &#8212; hope &#8212; they&#8217;ll be taken down soon). In order to highlight their fares to coastal locations no affected by the oil spill, they created an ad campaign titled &#8220;Best Protection&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-24796\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/23\/spirit-airlines-ads-joke-about-oil-spill-and-objectify-women\/picture-5-8\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24796 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/Picture-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get it? <em>BP<\/em>? Oh, funny.<\/p>\n<p>The ads show bikini-clad women sunning themselves on the beach and carry the tagline &#8220;check out the oil on our beaches.&#8221; Two examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-24794\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/23\/spirit-airlines-ads-joke-about-oil-spill-and-objectify-women\/spirit3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24794 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/spirit3-500x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/spirit3-500x275.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/spirit3.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-24795\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/23\/spirit-airlines-ads-joke-about-oil-spill-and-objectify-women\/spirit4-cropped-proto-custom_2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24795\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/spirit4-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;m just stunned. Seriously, how do these things get made? Who comes up with this, and how is it that nowhere along the line from the idea to actually putting the images up on the website does someone in authority say, &#8220;Um, I think this is a really bad idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Classy, Spirit Air. Classy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has an article about a new advertising campaign from Spirit Airlines (as of this morning the images are still available on their homepage, though I presume &#8212; hope &#8212; they&#8217;ll be taken down soon). In order to highlight their fares to coastal locations no affected by the oil spill, they created an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,2123,55,2096,2093],"class_list":["post-24793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disaster","tag-environmentnature","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-objectification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44391,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions\/44391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}