Ads becoming sex offenders

As a consumer, I would like to let the advertising industry know just how thoroughly tired and insulted I feel being the butt of its infatuation with portraying women as bronzed accomplished superbeings, and men as little more than a bunch of sweaty apes.

It has become a sad old joke now and it is time to move on. In any case, since all the surveys show that women are still earning less than men, why does the industry seem set on alienating its prime targets?

Paul Davey

Brighton

Sussex

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