Tampax ad banned

splinter65 · 30-07-2020 12:39pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

There was no sexual innuendo. It’s a tampon!

“Get it up there girls, amirite!!!” Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw. Cos all we women want is to get it up there.

gmisk · 30-07-2020 12:39pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

what sexual innuendos did they throw about?

Up "there" wink wink nudge nudge....lol
It was hardly a carry on film like...

They didnt.

The ad is clearly meant to ape "loose women" or a show like that. If you want to be outraged at women and their behaviour on tv they might be a better target....they are literally braying hyenas...

ohnonotgmail · 30-07-2020 12:40pm

gmisk wrote: »

Up "there" wink wink nudge nudge....lol
It was hardly a carry on film like...

They didnt.

The ad is clearly meant to ape "loose women" or a show like that. If you want to be outraged at women and their behaviour on tv they might be a better target....they are literally braying hyenas...

it is a tampon. there is nothing sexual about a tampon.

Limpy · 30-07-2020 12:40pm

Is the add about women "leaking" still doing the rounds that's worse.

meeeeh · 30-07-2020 12:41pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

not just trampy but:

vulgar, crass cheap and nasty.
laughing hyenas aping a bunch of men on a building site
trampy loudmouth vulgar idiots.
larger(sic) loutish idiots and have braincells
shouty thickos with no class or dignity

just some of the descriptions applied to the woman in the ad by the resident pearl clutchers.

British education system produces large cohort of uneducated or poorly educated so those in power can stay in power. This ad has it's target audience but I would hope it would be a lot smaller in Ireland and that we deserve a bit better. It's an equivalent of drunk British tourists on holidays that nobody likes. (I'm not saying all are like that).

gmisk · 30-07-2020 12:42pm

Limpy wrote: »

Is the add about women "leaking" still doing the rounds that's worse.

Of course....I love peeing myself at my dance class but sure doesn't everyone!

This ad had periods in it though God forbid!

YellowBucket · 30-07-2020 12:42pm

splinter65 wrote: »

I see literally 1000s of women in real life and on tv behaving like normal sane human beings every single day . I have no idea if you actually even know any women or ever go outside based on this comment.

So basically all tv and ads should reflect 1950s moral codes and not reality?

Tens of thousands of women also go out on a Friday night, shouting and having a laugh.

My granny would have had more direct conversations that advert, and she was born in the 1920s

You’re putting women into a box of what you’re defining is appropriate female behaviour because you don’t like loud women.

30-07-2020 12:43pm

splinter65 wrote: »

“Get it up there girls, amirite!!!” Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw. Cos all we women want is to get it up there.

If you don’t get it up there it will leak!

AryaStark · 30-07-2020 12:43pm

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Personally I thought it was a bit inappropriate for kids. It was broadcast when my 9 year old was watching tv - She didn't need to be watching that bollox

Your 9 year old will be wearing tampons soon... are you going to teach her the right way to wear one? I doubt it... the instructions are on the box yet lots of girls just stick it in a bit and are very uncomfortable. Also can cause infections when not worn right.

The woman in the ads voice annoyed me! But I don't think it was embarrassing and if you are embarrassed these days by periods then you need to get a life.

KiKi III · 30-07-2020 12:44pm

If men think hearing about a period is gross, they should think about what it's like to experience them. Waking up to find your thighs stuck together with mucus-y, bloody liquid because your period arrived in the middle of the night is gross. Ads are pretty much grand by comparison.

And what do women do? We hop in the shower, throw the sheets in the wash and head to work.

Anyone who complained about this is the ultimate snowflake.

I got my first at 11. I didn't have the kind of relationship with my Mam where we would talk about that kind of thing in any detail; this ad would have been useful to me.

ohnonotgmail · 30-07-2020 12:44pm

YellowBucket wrote: »

So basically all tv and ads should reflect 1950s normal codes and not reality?

Tens of thousands of women also go out on a Friday night, shouting and having a laugh.

My granny would have had more direct conversations that advert, and she was born in the 1920s

You’re putting women into a box of what you’re defining is appropriate female behaviour because you don’t like loud women.

all i can think of are the harry enfield spoof ads "Women, know your place".

kowloonkev · 30-07-2020 12:45pm

gmisk wrote: »

Up "there" wink wink nudge nudge....lol
It was hardly a carry on film like...

They didnt.

The ad is clearly meant to ape "loose women" or a show like that. If you want to be outraged at women and their behaviour on tv they might be a better target....they are literally braying hyenas...

it's a lot easier to avoid a show like loose women than an ad on the national broadcaster every 15 minutes

statesaver · 30-07-2020 12:46pm

Who watches add these days anyway ? I always change channel when adds come on.

YellowBucket · 30-07-2020 12:47pm

statesaver wrote: »

Who watches add these days anyway. I always change channel when adds come on.

I suspect mostly those who are outraged, yet secretly fascinated with the mundane mechanics of tampons.

Hijpo · 30-07-2020 12:47pm

These kinds of adverts should be strictly targeted to mobile devices for people they apply to.

Same with erectile dysfunction ads. Made sure to include that before all the new age feminazis and their feminazi fan boys in this thread lose their sh** with me.

sydthebeat · 30-07-2020 12:47pm

splinter65 wrote: »

“Get it up there girls, amirite!!!” Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw. Cos all we women want is to get it up there.

do you only use your vagina for sex?

30-07-2020 12:48pm

statesaver wrote: »

Who watches add these days anyway ? I always change channel when adds come on.

Exactly. And if something in the ad resonates with a viewer, they’ll watch it.

homes_for_all · 30-07-2020 12:49pm

YellowBucket wrote: »

Oh FFS. Seems we’re back to the prudish old days of a bygone Ireland.

Also it’ll be happily running on loads of U.K. channels that we all have anyway.

Well done the rosary bead clutchers - making Ireland look like a backwater again!

The Irish obsession with perceived international opinion, and desperation for same, is something else.

"Hey, don't you dare complain about something lest Belgium think less of us!"

sammyjo90 · 30-07-2020 12:49pm

Having had a friend ask me at 16 (SIXTEEN!) what hole they go in I thought that ad was great!
Not every girl has a mother to ask about these things

YellowBucket · 30-07-2020 12:50pm

Well it’s just yet another example of Ireland regulating women’s behaviour! Seems we can’t drag an aspect of this country out of the 1950s moralising nonsense.

We’re not that far away from the committees of permanently morally outraged and clearly controlling every aspect of life here. It’s literally only a few decades.

Mad_maxx · 30-07-2020 12:50pm

i thought it was funny , benny hill type humour but presumably educational ?

Clare Kat · 30-07-2020 12:50pm

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Personally I thought it was a bit inappropriate for kids. It was broadcast when my 9 year old was watching tv - She didn't need to be watching that bollox

Hate to inform you, but she will be using them shortly and should know how to use them properly. Just saying

eviltwin · 30-07-2020 12:50pm

I’ve no opinion on the ad because while some people find it irritating or cringe there’s nothing inherently offensive about it. Can people not use the remote and mute or turn of the tv?

I’m more surprised that such a small number of complaints were enough to get it taken off air in the first place.

Bobblehats · 30-07-2020 12:52pm

statesaver wrote: »

Who watches add these days anyway ? I always change channel when adds come on.

I knew a fella who would conversely only perk up when the ad breaks came on. And soak them up in wide eyed fascination I’d watch him; watching them and jot down how he responded. Curious specimen

YellowBucket · 30-07-2020 12:54pm

eviltwin wrote: »

I’ve no opinion on the ad because while some people find it irritating or cringe there’s nothing inherently offensive about it. Can people not use the remote and mute or turn of the tv?

I’m more surprised that such a small number of complaints were enough to get it taken off air in the first place.

That’s the problem with most of those processes. You see it in the BAI broadcasting complaints too. For example Derek Mooney had complaints upheld for discussing that he would like to get married, this was before any Irish marriage referendum was even called, yet a complaint from a company that had ceased trading and was linked to very conservative elements here forced RTE to apologise and had the poor guy more or less silenced & pushed aside.

Ireland is still very weird on many of those regulatory regimes.

A few angry letters can cause a series of actions that lead to some decision like this.

I mean the arguments made here on this thread would also see The Derry Girls banned for being “shouty” and a bit crude.

One eyed Jack · 30-07-2020 12:54pm

YellowBucket wrote: »

I suspect mostly those who are outraged, yet secretly fascinated with the mundane mechanics of tampons.

I don’t know how you could infer from the idea that anyone who watches ads suggests that any of them could be outraged, yet secretly fascinated by the mechanics of tampons?

84 people made an official complaint, out of a population of 7 million. It takes some leap of the imagination to imagine that most people who do so are secretly fascinated by the mundane mechanics of tampons, let alone outraged by the idea alone.

Rather it appears you are being purposely disingenuous in order to miss the point being made that the ad itself is the problem, not the product.

Sardonicat · 30-07-2020 12:54pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

do you only use your vagina for sex?

I find mine quite handy for smuggling contraband. When travelling, its where i store my credit card and cash. Oh, how I laugh when I think of the bag snatcher eagerly ripping opening the handbag he ripped from my arm only to find a handful of clicky applicator tampons inside.

feelings · 30-07-2020 12:56pm

I am not dismissing your concerns, you are entitled to be concerned for whatever you want. But it's a very frightening and warped sense of concern IMHO and it appears most boards users agree.

splinter65 wrote: »

I can’t be concerned for the pandemic and offended by a horrible depiction of women at the same time? Why not?

homes_for_all · 30-07-2020 12:58pm

feelings wrote: »

But it's a very frightening and warped sense of concern IMHO and it appears most boards users agree.

I suggest you stay away from any horror movies if that frightens you

YellowBucket · 30-07-2020 1:01pm

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I don’t know how you could infer from the idea that anyone who watches ads suggests that any of them could be outraged, yet secretly fascinated by the mechanics of tampons?

84 people made an official complaint, out of a population of 7 million. It takes some leap of the imagination to imagine that most people who do so are secretly fascinated by the mundane mechanics of tampons, let alone outraged by the idea alone.

Rather it appears you are being purposely disingenuous in order to miss the point being made that the ad itself is the problem, not the product.

It’s called humour. Look it up a sometime.

Randle P. McMurphy · 30-07-2020 1:03pm

The ad was horrendous on so many levels. It should never have been aired in the first place. I would never go to the trouble of complaining about a tv ad, I just switch over. With standards so low these days and the increasing desensitization of viewers I'm surprised it got banned though. There are couple of channels I won't watch at all because of the constant use of horrendous images to extort money from people. How they get away with it I'll never know.

KiKi III · 30-07-2020 1:06pm

Randle P. McMurphy wrote: »

The ad was horrendous on so many levels. It should never have been aired in the first place.

Which levels?

Sardonicat · 30-07-2020 1:08pm

KiKi III wrote: »

Which levels?

Every level. Not just the tip. Right up to the grip!

30-07-2020 1:09pm

Billgirlylegs · 30-07-2020 1:10pm

210 comments over 16 pages woohoo.
Crappy ad but job done - hundreds of people talking about their product.

anyway- it takes 60 complaints to investigate an advertisement.
This one generated 84, and that is termed widespread offence so it has been withdrawn.

CrankyHaus · 30-07-2020 1:10pm

What is exactly is in the ad?
Oral instructions on how to use the product?
Video diagrams of proper use?
Still sounds like an improvement on the usual montages of grinning women rollerblading on trampolines.

30-07-2020 1:12pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

What is exactly is in the ad?
Oral instructions on how to use the product?
Video diagrams of proper use?
Still sounds like an improvement on the usual montages of grinning women rollerblading on trampolines.

In white shorts!

sydthebeat · 30-07-2020 1:13pm

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

210 comments over 16 pages woohoo.
Crappy ad but job done - hundreds of people talking about their product.

anyway- it takes 60 complaints to investigate an advertisement.
This one generated 84, and that is termed widespread offence so it has been withdrawn.

and even if the ASAI receive 1000s of emails in FAVOUR of the ad.. they cannot reverse their decision and wont allow the ad to play.....

go figure.....

KiKi III · 30-07-2020 1:13pm

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

210 comments over 16 pages woohoo.
Crappy ad but job done - hundreds of people talking about their product.

anyway- it takes 60 complaints to investigate an advertisement.
This one generated 84, and that is termed widespread offence so it has been withdrawn.

The launch of the investigation is triggered, they don't have to uphold it.

They're standards are:

- All marketing communications should be legal, decent, honest and truthful.
- All marketing communications should be prepared with a sense of responsibility both to the consumer and to society.
- All marketing communications should conform to the principles of fair competition as generally accepted in business.

The ad didn't contravene any of those standards, unless you consider talking about periods inherently indecent, which would be one of the most snowflake-y things I've ever heard.

Errashareesh · 30-07-2020 1:13pm

I don't think anyone here is denying, or attaching shame to, menstruation. I didn't like the ad, and I agree it was trying to look raunchy - not showing it until after 9pm seems fair I think.

But "banning" it? Ffs.

There are so many things that potentially cause discomfort on television - instead of zoning in on one but not the others, the channel can be changed.

Clare Kat · 30-07-2020 1:16pm

YouTalking2me wrote: »

The fact it was removed over 84 complaints out of 7 million people, is why the country is backwards imo.

Dead right, it’s pitiful. Another thing for women to be ashamed of.

KiKi III · 30-07-2020 1:17pm

Hold on to your hats lads, Bridesmaids is showing on RTE1 tomorrow night and that has an extensive diarrhoea scene. The following night is Quantam of Solace which features extensive scenes of violence.

Can't imagine people who can't stand one minute of discussion on periods would be able for either of those.

MrMusician18 · 30-07-2020 1:19pm

Zaph wrote: »

No it's not, the ASAI isn't a state body, it's described on their website as "the independent self-regulatory body set up and financed by the advertising industry". This is censorship by a tiny vocal minority of busybodies who have nothing better to be doing with themselves.

It actually hasn't been banned. Compliance with ASAI decisions is voluntary.

The ad was crass.

KiKi III · 30-07-2020 1:21pm

MrMusician18 wrote: »

It actually hasn't been banned. Compliance with ASAI decisions is voluntary.

The ad was crass.

How so?

whisky_galore · 30-07-2020 1:21pm

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

210 comments over 16 pages woohoo.
Crappy ad but job done - hundreds of people talking about their product.

Well, only one segment of the posters here are ever going to need to use it.

Mister Vain · 30-07-2020 1:25pm

KiKi III wrote: »

Hold on to your hats lads, Bridesmaids is showing on RTE1 tomorrow night and that has an extensive diarrhoea scene. The following night is Quantam of Solace which features extensive scenes of violence.

Can't imagine people who can't stand one minute of discussion on periods would be able for either of those.

Not to mention a 007 who see's women as disposable pleasures. Scandalous.

sydthebeat · 30-07-2020 1:25pm

Errashareesh wrote: »

I don't think anyone here is denying or attaching shame to menstruation. I didn't like the ad, and I agree it was trying to look raunchy - not showing it until after 9pm seems fair I think.

But "banning" it? Ffs.

There are so many things that potentially cause discomfort on television - instead of zoning in on one but not the others, the channel can be changed.

really?

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

It's a vulgar ad that has thankfully been banned. What I'd prefer if all ads about that stuff were banned, I understand the companies need to advertise their products, they should do so in a respectful way.

No one wants to be put off their dinner with graphic descriptions of that stuff on TV.

Clare Kat · 30-07-2020 1:27pm

YellowBucket wrote: »

That’s the problem with most of those processes. You see it in the BAI broadcasting complaints too. For example Derek Mooney had complaints upheld for discussing that he would like to get married, this was before any Irish marriage referendum was even called, yet a complaint from a company that had ceased trading and was linked to very conservative elements here forced RTE to apologise and had the poor guy more or less silenced & pushed aside.

Ireland is still very weird on many of those regulatory regimes.

A few angry letters can cause a series of actions that lead to some decision like this.

I mean the arguments made here on this thread would also see The Derry Girls banned for being “shouty” and a bit crude.

You are so on point. Just going out on a limb here, but would have to wonder are these the same people who rang into Liveline to complain about sex scenes in Normal People.

sammyjo90 · 30-07-2020 1:28pm

Errashareesh wrote: »

I don't think anyone here is denying, or attaching shame to, menstruation. I didn't like the ad, and I agree it was trying to look raunchy - not showing it until after 9pm seems fair I think.

But "banning" it? Ffs.

There are so many things that potentially cause discomfort on television - instead of zoning in on one but not the others, the channel can be changed.

I didnt think it was trying to be raunchy.lighthearted and educational maybe... nothing they did was raunchy just a bit OTT. But its to grab attention

I also dont think the people who need to know about how to put in a tampon properly will be watching tv after 9pm

sydthebeat · 30-07-2020 1:29pm

MrMusician18 wrote: »

It actually hasn't been banned. Compliance with ASAI decisions is voluntary.

The ad was crass.

it actually HAS been banned.

The chairperson of the ASAI was on Ciara Keely today and said that the ad had to be removed, and could only be reinstated if it was altered.

Tampax ad banned

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