Yes that says "Look good in all you do" apparently including accepting your violent partner's "I won't do it again" necklace bribe for the black eye he just gave you. How someone could use domestic violence to promote their business, let alone glamorize it, I don't know. This ad completely disgusts me and if you click through you'll see their other images are not much better. Even more shocking is that the salon refuses to apologize for the images.
Women who experience violence need help and assistance not some salon making light of their horrific experiences. What do you think? Are you as disgusted as I am? I can't say I'm shocked since advertising often uses violence against women as a thinly veiled theme for their advertisements, but this is deliberate and direct.
If you can please make a donation to Glasgow Women's Aid, who desperately need your support more than Fluid salon do.
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6 comments:
Speechless :-(
The link is NOT through to their site it is through to another blogger who is equally appalled.
tasteless, and OH FFS. We have not, surely, gotten to DV/DA "chic"? I despair.
I'm not clicking cos I'm not going to give them the hits, but I've seen the stuff elsewhere - it's a number of things but it's also semiotically confused - is she "grinning and bearing it" ? is this supposed to play on the idea of abused women "putting on a brave face"? What does the image of a black eye have to do with hairdressing? oh aye, absolutely nowt.
Pointless, belittling, minimising shite.
It's sure been getting a lot of coverage here in Canada, that's for sure. The owner was doing on cameras earlier this week defending the position. I fail to understand how they thought that was a good campaign. The idea that "any publicity if good publicity" is very very untrue.
Thank you for posting about this, because I think it's just atrocious. And the fact that this salon is now trying to spin the attention into some twisted form of advocacy disgusts me further.
It is shocking that a business should even entertain this. I do wonder if it isn't a cynical attempt on their part to grab the headlines. Have they been reported to the equivalent of the ASA?
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