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tw · 11-21-2005, 04:42 PM

One look at that billboard - and I see an ad that encourages wife beating. Look, for the message to have effect, the message must convey to the man an emotional distress at what he has done. That billboard - without any text - only glorifies the wife beating - or at least makes it appear to be something that men can do.

Appreciate that I was raised watching commercial created that Americans believed - such as smoking cigarettes does make one healthier. Yes, eliminate the current bias, and that is exactly what most Americans believed in the early 1960s even when the Surgeon Generals report confirmed in 1964(?) what was proven sometime in the 1940s.

I see an ad that actually does just the opposite of what is intended. I am sure most all do not see the same. But then I was raised to see the mindset of an advertising executives - propaganda expert.

11-21-2005, 04:42 PM	#18
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	One look at that billboard - and I see an ad that encourages wife beating. Look, for the message to have effect, the message must convey to the man an emotional distress at what he has done. That billboard - without any text - only glorifies the wife beating - or at least makes it appear to be something that men can do. Appreciate that I was raised watching commercial created that Americans believed - such as smoking cigarettes does make one healthier. Yes, eliminate the current bias, and that is exactly what most Americans believed in the early 1960s even when the Surgeon Generals report confirmed in 1964(?) what was proven sometime in the 1940s. I see an ad that actually does just the opposite of what is intended. I am sure most all do not see the same. But then I was raised to see the mindset of an advertising executives - propaganda expert.