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Buriram Province - General Category => International News clippings => Topic started by: smoooth2 on January 25, 2013, 08:12:49 AM

Title: Ikea ladyboy
Post by: smoooth2 on January 25, 2013, 08:12:49 AM

"News" item

http:??au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/15944884/disrespectful-ikea-ad-touches-nerve-with-thai-transsexuals/

Wonder which nerve it touched ?   :D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxtaTn8zSwg         It's a 20sec clip

Title: Re: Ikea ladyboy
Post by: smoooth2 on January 25, 2013, 08:16:08 AM

News story link should have been

http://au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/15944884/disrespectful-ikea-ad-touches-nerve-with-thai-transsexuals/

Title: Re: Ikea ladyboy
Post by: Ahab on January 25, 2013, 09:02:15 AM

Seemed pretty humorous to me, not disrespectful. I did not see it as stereotypical at all, most ladyboys that I have seen in Thailand are not very cute. The ladyboy in the ad was kinda cute, except for the humongous adams apple.

Title: Re: Ikea ladyboy
Post by: Speros on January 25, 2013, 09:23:38 AM

Political correctness...it will be the death of the human race, cant say, do or write anything that "may" offend some part of some community  loco
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers  hungry1