In the pages of GQ or Maxim, you wouldn’t think twice about the above ad, which is for Jiwani, a tailor specializing in custom-made suits. But place the ad in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and you’ve got a controversy on your hands.
Slate examines the controversy:
Evidently, at least two-dozen readers of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly were infuriated by the ad’s placement in a legal publication; law being that rare profession in which “women struggle mightily to achieve the same respect and status as men.”
So, setting aside the fact that the ad isn’t really all that creative or original, can the media placement of an ad render the ad inappropriate?