ASB clears Airbnb of ‘borderline sexualisation’ after equality ad airs during children’s show
The Advertising Standards Board has cleared Airbnb’s ‘Until We all Belong’ ad, after a complaint suggested it targeted children in a way that was “clearly unacceptable” and “borderline sexualisation.”
Airbnb’s equality campaign sees Australians trying on The Acceptance Ring – an incomplete ring symbolising the gap in marriage equality Australia needs to close.
The ad features people of different genders and ethnicities making pledges to wear the Ring until a time when marriage equality is passed as law.
It is unsafe for children to watch even the “children’s television’ channels. I am glad that I don’t own a tv in my house so that my children are safe from all the social filth being thrust on our children. I wouldn’t trust government agencies to tell us what is safe or not because they have no moral compass. The public are fast losing confidence in our public service.
You seem to agree with the complainant. What’s your actual problem with the ad? Is it just that it exposed children to the idea of gay marriage or that it explicitly supported gay marriage? What harm does it do to kids to see such an ad? Would you find an ad against gay marriage to be unacceptable for the same audience?
To me this ad looks like the tamest thing ever. The only bit I find distasteful is how Airbnb is trying to put their brand on a political/human rights issue.
For me personally I find it disgusting that some people seem so insistent on preaching HATE to children. The message of this ad is acceptance, a message I whole heatedly support.
You are a very sad person.
Religion has wrought more damage on children than TV ever has or ever will.
Despite that I respect your right to your beliefs. I wish you did the same unto others. Everyone should have the right to marriage.
Imagine attending a wedding and thinking that it was “borderline sexualisation”. Imagine if you thought that every time a friend became engaged it was “sexual”. Some people have sex on their minds. I worry for them.
Well done Airbnb.
This is an entirely appropriate social issue for them: they’ve been uncovering humanity’s prejudices through measuring the racism of hosts on the platform (http://time.com/money/4144426/.....t-harvard/).
I’d love to see the same study done on homophobia – when I’ve openly requested a room with my girlfriend, I haven’t been accepted by hosts.
Just to make a point for those who seem to think that “sex” is a word which can be used or ignored as the individual argument may require.
Marriage equality means the equality of sexual orientation, marriage is about sexuality and so (in the romantic sense) is so called love. It is entirely appropriate to think of sex when two people get engaged or married, because the overwhelming number of those who do, are sexually attracted, and wish to secure that relationship in marriage; “engaged” is short for “engaged to be married.”
All these ads are simply exercises in grandstanding, showing the world that there are politically right thinking people out there, and guess what? the name behind the ad is one, or a group of them.
The NO sayers, and the political push have no chance of crushing what is inevitable, this whole debate is a wast of money, time and effort.