{"id":200717,"date":"2020-01-12T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200717"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:47:13","slug":"pc-specialist-ad-banned-in-uk-because-it-doesnt-feature-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200717","title":{"rendered":"PC Specialist Ad Banned in UK Because it Doesn\u2019t Feature Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Joseph Watson \u2013 Summit News Jan 11, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PC-ad-banned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-200719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PC-ad-banned.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PC-ad-banned.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PC-ad-banned-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PC-ad-banned-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A PC Specialist ad has been banned in the UK for perpetuating \u201charmful gender stereotypes\u201d because it doesn\u2019t feature any women.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Apparently, the commercial, which features a white man, a black man and an Asian man, isn\u2019t diverse enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The UK\u2019s Advertising Standards Authority cracked down on the ad after just eight offended morons complained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite PC Specialist\u2019s core market being 87.5% male, the fact that their commercial isn\u2019t politically correct enough was its undoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qufOGlloLyI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As we previously <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/08\/14\/volkswagen-commercial-banned-in-uk-because-it-shows-woman-caring-for-a-baby\/\">highlighted<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a Volkswagen commercial was also banned in the UK for violating \u201cgender stereotypes\u201d because it showed a woman caring for a baby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The ASA also <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/05\/30\/uk-ad-featuring-sexy-female-mechanic-banned-after-a-single-complaint\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>banned<\/strong><\/span><\/a> an ad featuring a sexy female mechanic after a single complaint because it could cause \u201coffense\u201d and was sexually suggestive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Commercials that reinforce negative gender stereotypes against men, such as one about \u2018manspreading\u2019 that appear on the London Underground, are apparently fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There are also no restrictions on ads showcasing obese people, although commercials featuring slender women who work out are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/04\/04\/ads-for-homophobic-brunei-appear-on-london-underground-bikini-ads-banned\/\">banned<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now do female bagspreading. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gdm7hVlzfV\">pic.twitter.com\/Gdm7hVlzfV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/1114639887137898496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/01\/10\/pc-specialist-ad-banned-in-uk-because-it-doesnt-feature-women\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite company\u2019s core audience being 87.5% male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200721,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200717\/revisions\/200721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}