{"id":5115,"date":"2008-12-14T06:46:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T11:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2010-11-30T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T09:41:43","slug":"weird-anti-drunk-driving-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/14\/weird-anti-drunk-driving-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Anti-Drunk Driving and Anti-Hunger PSAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arrive Alive<\/a> is an anti-drunk driving organization. As part of one educational campaign, they designed these…stickers? posters? stick-ons? I’m not sure what you call them, but things to stick on the wall of public bathrooms to make people think before driving drunk. Here are two examples (found at copyranter<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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I don’t quite know what to make of these. I mean, they definitely get your attention. But I also question the outfit they chose to show her in–what’s with sexing her up so much? With fishnet thigh-highs, a visible g-string, and stilettos, no less. And as copyranter points out, for the type of guys (and I know this is a specific group–this isn’t referring to men in general) who look for drunk women to have sex with, I think that top image might have a totally different effect than the organization is getting at. Maybe that’s part of the point–to scare women with the threat of making bad sexual choices (or being forced into sexual activities) while drunk. But then why put it in the men’s bathroom? I’m kind of stumped, really. Readers?<\/p>\n

Just a side note, I’m thinking the poster at the top, next to the urinal, is just going to get peed on a lot (after all, there are already lots of urinals shaped like women<\/a>), while the bottom one is likely to get puked on now and then.<\/p>\n

This just strikes me as another example of a PSA that manages to be creepy without necessarily being effective.<\/p>\n

Here’s a somewhat similar example. These ads are for Feed SA<\/a>, a New Zealand-based organization to provide food to people in South Africa. They paid some supermarkets to put these ads in shopping baskets (images posted by copyranter at Animal New York<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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I guess part of the point here is to make people feel uncomfortable while they’re filling their baskets with lots of food, in the hopes that they’ll go home and make a donation. And that, in and of itself, doesn’t surprise me; I used to foster dogs for a dog rescue, and let me tell you, we weren’t above occasionally using guilt or desperate appeals if we were in dire shape, and I think it’s a fairly standard (though not necessarily effective) practice among charity organizations. I’m not entirely certain why I find them disconcerting. Maybe there’s no good reason for it.<\/p>\n

Readers, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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