Hey Feministing. This is the kind of thing I usually wouldn't cross post from SAFER's blog as it doesn't directly have to do with our work, but a woman in Chicago contacted us trying to raise more attention on the current ad campaign the Chicago Transit Authority has endorsed by allowing the below ads to run on city buses. Please contact them if you're as angry as we are.
These are the promotional ads for Tucker Max's new film currently running on the side of some Chicago buses .
A columnist for the Chicago Tribune has also spotted a bus ad that says, “Deaf Girls Can’t Hear You Coming.”
I’m not even going to bother explaining AGAIN why Max’s messages are horrendous [even though, these ads take it to an even more horrifying level by...I don't even know? Is this really a joke about assaulting blind and deaf women? Can he really be that derranged? I get the double entendre too but...holy shit]. But this is different from the film or his in-person speeches—you can always just choose not to attend those. These ads are being forced on the public because the Chicago Transit Authority approved them. You can contact the CTA here .
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UGH!!! I f-ing hate Tucker Max!!
I live in Chicago and I haven't seen any of these billboards yet (thank goodness!). But I did just start seeing the trailer for his stupid ass movie on tv the other day. Makes me want to VOMIT!
I live in Chicago. I haven't seen the ads, but I've heard about them and have emailed the CTA to let them know how I feel.
One also says: "Strippers will not tolerate disrespect (just kidding)." ARGH.
These ads are also in New York City.
...the first thing I thought of when I read that was that it was an ad encouraging drivers to be more careful and not assume a given pedestrian has seen/heard their car. (Go ahead and laugh at my naivete.) Then I thought again, and...
...how did that /ever/ get allowed as an advertisement?!
It's not just Chicago. I've seen these plastered around midtown in NYC. I keep telling myself I'll go back to those locations at night and spray paint something ultra-clever and subversive on them, but really they just make me too angry and depressed to want to do anything.