Old Navy's Brady Bunch Parody Ad

[boycott]

Have you ppl seen Old Navy's Brady Bunch Parody advertisement for their Rugby shirts? Notice the racial makeup of the members in the squares, you have brunette dad, blonde mom, brunette old brother, brunette old sister, black mid brother, Asian mid sister, blonde little brother, and brunette little sister. What happened to Asian brother? Recently they changed the older brother from brunette to latino guy of whom I almost mistook for Asian.What's your take on this ad? I mean it's a parody of the all American family that everyone grew up to enjoy sadly even myself as an Asian, but the blatant omission of any Asian male just hurts. This is the third time, first time was the ad with Lisa Ling as she states "I love my men strong" while she pranced around whites and blacks and Asian males were nowhere to be found. Second time was the George Hamilton commercial, where to his right was an Asian woman and his left a white woman.

[DaBestSpooner]

I'd rather see asian males in ads for "luxury" brands like Prada, Comme de garcons, Hugo Boss, Gucci, and trendier "urban" brands like Stussy, Samsonite Recon, Head Porter, Triple 5 Soul, than for a two-bit no frills tacky brand like old navy"

As for the ad itself, its tacky, poorly directed, and utterly annoying, signs of a good agency who designed the ad for people like you to remember and constantly think about when you walk by old navy.

Old Navy is going down the drain anyway, they're shutting down a whole lot of stores including the 18.000 sq foot flagship new york store, and the parent company gap just closed down 30% of their stores.

as for lisa ling, she married a chinese guy didnt she?

[angel nympho]

What about the blantant omission of a black female??? Oh my God, you read way too far into things.

[kimpossible]

Originally posted by DaBestSpooner@Aug 21 2002, 10:47 AM
I'd rather see asian males in ads for "luxury" brands like Prada, Comme de garcons, Hugo Boss, Gucci, and trendier "urban" brands like Stussy, Samsonite Recon, Head Porter, Triple 5 Soul, than for a two-bit no frills tacky brand like old navy"

As for the ad itself, its tacky, poorly directed, and utterly annoying, signs of a good agency who designed the ad for people like you to remember and constantly think about when you walk by old navy.

Old Navy is going down the drain anyway, they're shutting down a whole lot of stores including the 18.000 sq foot flagship new york store, and the parent company gap just closed down 30% of their stores.

as for lisa ling, she married a chinese guy didnt she?

lol

Lisa Ling? I know that she had somehow snagged Rick Yune, by drugging and/or blackmailing him I assume. Don't tell me they're married?

[DaBestSpooner]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 22 2002, 06:22 AM

lol

Lisa Ling? I know that she had somehow snagged Rick Yune, by drugging and/or blackmailing him I assume. Don't tell me they're married?

she musta been on drugs? rick yune, the russell wong of 2000?

[kimpossible]

No, she must have drugged or blackmailed him. Cuz I have no idea how she got him.

[DaBestSpooner]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 22 2002, 07:10 AM
No, she must have drugged or blackmailed him. Cuz I have no idea how she got him.

he's no takeshi kaneshiro, not even below kaneshiro's league.

[kimpossible]

I'm confused about confusing you. On top of that I don't know what you mean about Rick Yune not being Kaneshiro Takeshi and not being below Kaneshiro's Takeshi's league. They're both hot guys, each is hot in his own way.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 21 2002, 04:50 PM
I'm confused about confusing you. On top of that I don't know what you mean about Rick Yune not being Kaneshiro Takeshi and not being below Kaneshiro's Takeshi's league. They're both hot guys, each is hot in his own way.

are you going to have a kid that will someday look like kaneshiro takeshi??? you know he's half taiwanese half japanese.

[kimpossible]

I know, I just forget his Chinese name. It's Jing something... do you know it?

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Originally posted by boycott@Aug 21 2002, 06:24 PM
Notice the racial makeup of the members in the squares, you have brunette dad, blonde mom

you see? it represents society's longstanding efforts to cast asperations on the masculinity of light-haired adult men and the femininity of dark-haired adult women. (Think back. when was the last time you saw a blond guy cast as the hero in a movie, outside of surfer movies? now how many times have you seen a blond guy cast as the incompetent, bumbling villain?)

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 21 2002, 10:38 PM
I know, I just forget his Chinese name. It's Jing something... do you know it?

if i recall correctly (which i probably don't), he uses the same name in either language, ‹à�é? (Jin1 Cheng2wu3) ...

update: okay I guess the board can't do double-byte chars? the words are jin1 as in jin1rong2 (financial), cheng2 as in cheng2shi4 (city),and wu3 as in wu3shu4 (martial arts)



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[thaite]

I don't know who y'all are talking about, but sheeeyit, he's not even a buoywonder. B)

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by buoywonder@Aug 21 2002, 06:06 PM
I don't know who y'all are talking about, but sheeeyit, he's not even a buoywonder. B)

from Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels. i love that shirt. i want one.


<img src='http://kaneshiro.hoops.ne.jp/photocollection/movies/tk-fallen3.jpg[/img]



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[thaite]

That's him? Hell no, he's not even a buoywonder. <_<