30
September
2005
September
2005
Got Wood? Mayfair Mall porn accusations nonsense
It's one of the most crowded malls in the metro Milwaukee and a bunch of pro-censorship big government Republicans are saying Mayfair Mall has got porn in the Victoria's Secret shop windows.
So I had to check it out for myself.
It's a bunch of seemingly wooden mannequins posed with lingerie. That's it. Is it risqué lingerie? Absolutely. Is there any other kind? If there was, why bother?
You would think these people would have better things to do with their time.
Jim McGuigan
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I saw the article regarding this in the Milw urinal-sentinel. I understand protecting kids, but really…this is the largest & busiest mall in Milwaukee. The article stated that they also had an issue with Spencer’s Gifts because it had items that were critical of president Bush…get over it! Last I heard, we had free speech in the US!
Don’t forget, these are the same folks who insisted that the detention ponds being built to control Menomonee and Milwaukee River flooding caused largely by mega-developments upstream would be nothig but cess pools, filled with garbage and dirty diapers. Amazing how the Zurawskis’ agenda is so far right wing as to be somewhere just east of Pat Robertson.
Oh, wait, did I say that? Oops. Now I’m a commie.
I recently visited Mayfair Mall for the first time in quite a while… and boy have things changed! I have to say that the Victoria Secret window display not only caught my eye, but drew my fascination of others fascination as well…
I thought to myself at the time that VS may have gone a bit too far with those mannequins… they were lifelike enough to have pores!
I may not have worded it with the alarming extremism of the Tosans for Responsible Government group, but in my opinion… if a company has to sink to those levels of attracting consumers… we as a society are pretty lame.
I’m in advertising and it strikes me as appalling that marketers today have to sink to the lowest common denominator of creativity to “inspire†customers.
How many times do we as consumers get our personal space invaded by campaigns that are so obvious in their intent, that they can’t help but work? And since when did that become the rule of engagement?
Once we, as creative designers, prided ourselves in our ability to “suggest†need and “imply†further investigation. Today’s marketers simply want to club consumers over the head and take their money. The next display at Mayfair’s VC should just be a coin operated cum-stained metal sliding viewer wall like from a roadside porno shop, or maybe just a series of peep-holes and glory-holes with the mannequins posed unsuspectingly on the other side—cuz after all, it is the “suburbsâ€.
We as a society may not need to follow with the furor of these radical CRGs, but before we all talk down to them… we should look at exactly how dumb we look when let erect nipples, supple hip bones and genetically-correct reproductive organs sell us underwear! Help me to understand how a perfectly realized model is much different from a real woman with white bodypaint… or another mannequin with life-like color in addition to its life-like features… hopefully those are still not considered “ready for prime timeâ€.
Yes, it is still okay to act responsibly and not be called Right-Wing Evangelical Conservatives—at least for the moment. Lets ask VS to please have some respect for the intimacy of their product and refrain from such obviously controversial marketing techniques… or at least have Mayfair hold to some standards.
And Creative Directors and Designers… how bout trying to work at your craft to strive for something besides the easiest way to make a buck… or is this what society has become?
I wonder?
Pores? Why were you that close?
What troubles me most about ColbyDog’s response there is that his seemingly intimate familiarity with cum-stained sliding viewing walls and peep & gloryholes seems completely at odds with the message he is trying to get across.
I didn’t understand and still don’t understand the fascination with the window display. I mean, it’s a window display — leave it at that. So what if they had some hotties do body casts to make the manequins, they’re still manequins. It’s not like the opening credits on Nip/Tuck where the hot manequin comes to life.
Maybe Zurawski and his pals are just upset they weren’t offered to be the cast models.