Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Grow up, advertisers, where are your ethics?
CHINADAILY

The catch-line of an advertisement pasted on the floors of a subway car in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, triggered a raging debate on social networking sites on Wednesday after someone made a short video of it and shared it.

"Daddy, I want to marry you when I grow up," the catch-line said.

Such was the furor that the subway management company withdrew it by end of business hours on Wednesday. The advertisement had been around since early July. The authorities pointed at the commercial advertisement section of English-teaching agency New Oriental.

In an interview to thepaper.cn, New Oriental said it had forwarded the scenario they wanted — children expressing their love for parents — to their marketing department and did not expect it to go the way it did. They admitted that the text could lead to misunderstandings.

There are so many better ways to showcase one's love for parents. Just why would one come up with such a controversial logo?

Now that the advertisement has been withdrawn, it is also hoped that the subway management and the company that made the advertisement are more careful while reviewing their products in the future.

Words meant for public consumption must be chosen very careful and should not be misleading.

Big dog

So you’ve got them there too!!

billy a Loc: South Florida

Whether you believe in God and satan, sane vs. crazy, polite vs. rude, this world is becoming engulfed in something dark. Keep your own house clean. And, really, try Prayer...

bylm1-Bernie

The first thing that occurred to me when I read your post was remembering a time when my son, who was 4 or 5 at the time, asked his mother if he could marry her when he grew up. I have heard of similar stories from others. I think it is not unusual for kids to misunderstand the progression of life among adults. In modern times, it seems that there is more sensitivity to misunderstandings and therefore a need to be careful with what we choose to say. Maybe this is a corollary to the political correctness rule of today. For my part, I would choose to be a bit more tolerant and less critical of what others say or how they say it. Hope I haven't offended anyone.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Sexually suggestive, blatantly sexist, and demeaning content are the meat and potatoes of the advertising world.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Thoughts - Cncel culture

If not for the typo in the title - they would have cancelled you. Damn the algorithms!

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Prayer is a wonderful way to make sense of the life we have been given. I have been interested in Buddhism for some time. While the Buddha discouraged prayer because it doesn't work, he advocated spiritual enlightenment through meditation. I do both prayer, and meditation. I often meditate on G-d.
Science has given us a new concept of G-d. At the time of the Bible, G-d was a much smaller being. He was the supreme creator of the world. In the past hundred years, science has taught us that the universe is for all practical purposes eternal. It is so vast that we can not understand it. G-d is the creator of the universe, which makes him so much greater than we ever could imagine or even understand. Try meditating on that.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Maybe even the multi-verse if such a thing exists.

The more we know about the pitiful little 4 dimensions we perceive now the more there is to know about them...and everything we think we know gets revised regularly.

God is truly mind-blowing in an excellent and comforting way!

elledee

Just like America.....Never a dull moment in the people's republic of China 🇨🇳 must be a very interesting place to live