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Air New Zealand has recently released a new in-flight safety video for flights within the Pacific. It features several young, attractive women demonstrating safety procedures in the setting of a Pacific island paradise while wearing bikinis.



Of course this has been met by howls of protests from all the usual suspects. Here is one example of news presenter Hilary Barry going as far as saying that she is "incensed" by the video.

Quote:"I'm incensed. I'm absolutely incensed by the safety video.

"I think it's highly inappropriate, sexualised, objectifies women, demeaning, it's just appalling.

"They should truly, cut their losses, take it down immediately," she said.

Even while trying to discard all my faculties of logic and watching this from the perspective of a feminist, I could see absolutely nothing that sexualises or demeans women. At no point are they shown in a sexual context. The only problem these feminists seem to have is that they are attractive and are wearing bikinis, which is pretty standard clothing for most women on the beach. It's not as it they were wearing thongs and rubbing lotions onto each others' arses. Just a bunch of women enjoying themselves on a tropical paradise like anyone would love to do. In fact the only place where there is sexual objectification occurs at 2:25 when Christy Brinkly implies that she is enjoying the view of the buff and obviously dim-witted pool boy.

This is obviously another dumb complaint from women who have long since hit the wall and based purely on jealousy. I have yet to come across one girl in her twenties who finds this in any way offensive. There is nothing wrong with using attractive actors in videos that are the face of a company. And since it was filmed on a tropical island, it probably makes more sense to have them in bikinis than, say, track suits.

I have generally avoided Air New Zealand in the past since compared to Asian carriers they are more expensive and the service isn't as good. But I might have to reconsider.

Post: #2

Hurray for Air New Zealand! I hope they stand firm against the hordes infected with rabies. Good luck!

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Post: #4

WNB! You didn't even have to ask....

Post: #5

The thread title generally describes the root cause for the feminist state of mind.

Post: #6

Losers wanting to regulate how winners do business and market themselves. Nothing new.

When I fly AirAsia, every stewardess is smoking hot with these tight little uniforms. It's awesome. Those people understand what makes humans tick.

They don't even pretend to want to hire ugly women. Several of my girls here have tried to get one of those gigs. The screening process in insane and you're competing with hundreds of other hot chicks.

And that's how it damn well should be!

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If feminists really cared about the "exploitation of women by their use as sexual objects", then they should approach the issue from an entirely different angle: help to hot women understand that their beauty and sexual allure is fleeting, and that they should diligently save the bonus money they earn from their looks for the future when they fade away. Then we would have women both earning money and ensuring that they do something smart with it. Everyone wins.

Instead, these freaks just don't want hot women to make any money at all. They'd prefer their sisters to work their assess off for pennies in the fast-food or garment industry, or be obedient office drones (for free, (Lean In TM)) at non-profits. And then they dare claim that they're concerned about women's welfare... yeah, right.

Post: #8

(02-13-2014 08:27 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:  When I fly AirAsia, every stewardess is smoking hot with these tight little uniforms. It's awesome. Those people understand what makes humans tick.

It's a different world away from the west. Here is one of several example of air hostesses on Asian carriers being fired for getting fat.

Post: #9

Women are sex objects so I don't know why feminists complain about that.

Post: #10

Media personality and former Member of Parliament Pam Corkery is also pissed off.

Quote:...it's still a load of mildewed garbage, starring four Sports Illustrated models in bikinis on a beach - surely the default setting of an unoriginal person in charge of a sketch pad.

Here she is in one of her more flattering pictures.

I think it's hilarious that this is coming from a woman who once planned to open New Zealand's first brothel for women to be serviced by men.

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(02-13-2014 09:05 AM)Horus Wrote:  Media personality and former Member of Parliament Pam Corkery is also pissed off.

Quote:...it's still a load of mildewed garbage, starring four Sports Illustrated models in bikinis on a beach - surely the default setting of an unoriginal person in charge of a sketch pad.

Here she is in one of her more flattering pictures.

I think it's hilarious that this is coming from a woman who once planned to open New Zealand's first brothel for women to be serviced by men.

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I've said this before, but this story illustrates the immense benefit (yes) of political correctness. All a marketing company has to do now to get free publicity is be very slightly politically incorrect. Just post your ad, pic, press release etc. and wait for fools like this women, and their media contacts to expend their energy (for free) creating absolutely free publicity for your business. Obviously you can't be too out there, but Air New Zealand has done well here. Very well. Tens of 1000's of dollars, at least, in free publicity thanks to this woman and the media she can get attention from.

The term I've started using for reaping benefits in an absurdley politically correct world is "Reality Arbitrage". It's a bit like the tale of the Emporor's New Clothes. If every fool is forced to believe drivel, and sometimes act as if the drivel were truth the power shifts to those who act according to reality and reap the benefits that lie in the gulf between drivel and reality (arbitrage).

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(02-13-2014 09:05 AM)Horus Wrote:  Here she is in one of her more flattering pictures.

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A champion of ugliness would naturally be incensed at the mere sight of genuine beauty. In a more sensible time these insufferable harridans would have vented their envious rage in private, but unfortunately our confused society has granted them public influence. Let's hope Air New Zealand chooses beauty over misanthropy and keeps the video.

Post: #15

Aare there any hot feminists out there?

Post: #16

course there were no complaints about Christie Brinkley with a much younger muscular man cleaning her pool..

Jealous old hag who has never had any real attention from anyone in her life angry at the fact that young feminine looking women enjoying themselves.

Feminists are mentally ill and in my opinion anti female.

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(02-13-2014 11:38 AM)soup Wrote:  Aare there any hot feminists out there?

There are loads of hot feminists, as long as you have a fat fetish.



I get the feeling that if she lost god knows how many pounds, she would be bangable.

Post: #18

i bet when she is hungry she licks that ice cream tattoo on her right shoulder.

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Feminists are in favor of sexual liberation, yet think that showing attractive women in a commercial is sexually objectifying them.

Obviously this makes zero fucking sense, and demonstrates that feminism is a complete sham. It has nothing to do with female liberation, equality or empowerment. It's simply the most insidious kind of equalitarian ideology, one designed to tear down the beautiful and replace it with the ugly. It's not the sexual objectification of women that feminists oppose, it's any kind of female beauty.

This is why the vast majority of feminists are ugly, fat or old: they are the only benefactors of reduced female beauty in society, since it makes them look (infinitesimally) better in comparison. I think it's literally impossible for a beautiful woman to be a feminist in good standing, because a feminist is literally defined by her rejection of female beauty. So if an attractive girl is infected with the feminist virus, she will invariably chop her hair off, pierce her face and cover her body with tattoos. She must destroy her own beauty. It's a mental sickness. Feminism is an anti-human ideology.

Post: #21

I heard New Zealand is just as bad as Australia culturally.

Meh...

Post: #22

Happy that for once something has come out of here that doesn't toe the feminist party line.

And happy for a change after sitting through this the past three years:

Post: #23

I am convinced feminism is a group evolutionary strategy for ugly women to reduce competition from attractive and/or feminine women. By lowering and/or eliminating standards of beauty on a large societal scale, they bring down the collective smv(Sexual market value) of the average women, thereby raising their relative smv.

Post: #24

Women exploit men basically all the time. Its call being a military soldier, Fireman , cop and construction worker .You going to tell me that doesn't count?

Post: #25

Hey Jimukr, unfortunately it doesn't count anymore....and to be honest it may never have counted as some folk could argue that feminism has just revealed women's true nature towards us.