Sunday, 19 December 2021

More Inappropriate Ads.

I currently have an advert on my inbox page from Dunelm (they’re a British retail chain which specialises in haberdashery.) One of the items they’re trying to persuade me to consider buying is a duvet cover with a rural snow scene on it. I swear that if I had one of those I’d be getting nightmares about being trapped in a snowy wasteland wearing only a T shirt and underwear and suffering the rapid onset of hypothermia. Am I untypical? Are there really people who would buy such a thing?

And yesterday I got another one with pictures of big women wearing the kind of bras and panties normally associated with small women. I’m curious to know whether their algorithms have got my size and gender wrong, or whether they’ve been reading my blog and it’s meant to be a lesson in not objectifying women.

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