Juliette <
[email protected]> writes:
>In article <
[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>>
http://www.asa.org.uk/adjudications/show_adjudication.asp?adjudication_id=36625&from_index=show_-
>> advertisers&dates_of_adjudications_id=530:531:532:533
>>
>> Complaint upheld against Cannondale advert
>
>Good, but they're not the only ones. Simon has got quite used to me flicking through magazines and
>tutting. I've also been to some online bike shops and seen near naked women. That's OK though, I
>just won't buy anything made by people who advertise in that way and I won't use online bike stores
>with bikini clad women on their front pages.
Me too. I've also stopped buy MBUK now they've gone down the 'Rider's Wives' route and their 'we
don't have to justify ourselves to you because we want tits and ass in our magazine' column last
month was outright offensive. They patently don't want me reading their magazine, so I'll no
longer be buying
it.
>As the adjudication said though, I'm not their target market and I don't suppose they'd be upset
>about losing my spending power.
I doubt it too. If you've not already come across it, the magazine 'Singletrack' seems to me (so
far) to be a much better balance - good articles written by more than just your 30-something bloke
on his canondale, and I didn't spot any ads trying to sell forks using glamour girls in body armour
and thongs.
http://www.singletrackworld.com/
>Juliette, not a miserable bag but has to draw the line somewhere
I'm not a miserable bag either, but it becomes very clear sometimes that some magazines &
manufacturers are all about being a boys club and girls are only
that.
Claire
--
Still prettiest by far.
)
