Salon Promises Good Hair When Your Partner Beats You Up

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Salon Promises Good Hair When Your Partner Beats You Up (http://jezebel.com/5835548/salon-promises-good-hair-when-your-partner-beats-you-up)


Salon Promises Good Hair When Your Partner Beats You Up A Canadian hair salon is defending (http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/08/29/city-salon-unapologetic-over-racy-ad) its ad suggesting it can make you look good after your well-groomed boyfriend gives you a black eye. Never mind copious
criticisms (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150395292730206&set=a.10150395289750206.610405.713520205&type=1&theater) that it makes light of domestic violence — this, says the owner of Edmonton-based Fluid Hair, is "art."
The ad is part of a series featuring meticulously-styled women in incongruous situations with the tagline, "Look good in all you do." Most of them are innocuous or even cool, except this one and the one that suggests that a homeless woman on a dirty mattress outdoors got a mean blowout.
This particular advertising fail has a peculiar advantage over the rest, which is a creator whose chosen defense is, "We just like art, and it's also objective." And also this: "It might strike a chord, but as the way our society and community is getting, we keep tailoring everything because everyone is getting so sensitive...Anyone who has a connection or a story behind anything can be upset or have an opinion. We are not trying to attack anyone."

On the salon's Facebook page, Cameron writes (http://www.facebook.com/FluidHair?sk=info), "The passion I have for teaching about holistic options and routes and in depth knowledge of hair education is in all actuality hair raising." Her favorite quote on her own Facebook page is, "you should try everything in life twice except for incest and folk dancing." This apparently applies to the ad campaign, which Cameron told the Edmonton Sun will likely continue with a second batch. At least it won't involve incest or folk dancing?
City Salon Unapologetic Over Racy Ad (http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/08/29/city-salon-unapologetic-over-racy-ad) [Edmonton Sun]
Canadian Hair Salon Promotes Itself With Domestic Violence Imagery (http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2011/08/canadian-hair-salon-promotes-itself.html) [Copyranter]

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I definitely would not go to this salon.

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No, just NO.> “@msmagazine (http://twitter.com/msmagazine): What We're Reading: Salon Promises Good Hair When Your Partner Beats You Up ow.ly/6gOR0 (http://t.co/3LYKUIA) | Via @jezebel (http://twitter.com/jezebel)

[Korashk]

Lighten up. It's called a joke, and it's a good one.

[Amnesiac]

Everybody's uptight these days. Always drilling holes in themselves.

Seriously, a salon ad isn't going to be a catalyst for sexism. People can't take fucking jokes. This ad wasn't hurting anybody in any way. I have to agree with the owner, it was meant to cause controversy and succeeded in that goal. It's art.

[Sugaree]

Ayo gurrrrrrl, we gon' get cho' nails dun and git cho' hurr did and jus' make chu fo'get 'bout dat guy, k huun?

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Everybody's uptight these days. Always drilling holes in themselves.

Seriously, a salon ad isn't going to be a catalyst for sexism. People can't take fucking jokes. This ad wasn't hurting anybody in any way. I have to agree with the owner, it was meant to cause controversy and succeeded in that goal. It's art.

Well, there is the possibility that the ad would be offensive to domestic violence victims, and that joking about domestic abuse contributes to the problem and will make it harder to eradicate domestic abuse, due to not enough people taking it seriously and people considering it something to laugh about.

[Amnesiac]

Well, there is the possibility that the ad would be offensive to domestic violence victims, and that joking about domestic abuse contributes to the problem and will make it harder to eradicate domestic abuse, due to not enough people taking it seriously and people considering it something to laugh about.

I don't believe people should strive to avoid offending people. I highly doubt that something as taboo as domestic abuse will ever become "acceptable" because a handful of ads poke fun at it. Jokes don't change society. There are all sorts of things that poke fun at different races and sexualities, but those haven't swayed public opinion. I highly doubt ads like this will, either.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

I don't believe people should strive to avoid offending people. I highly doubt that something as taboo as domestic abuse will ever become "acceptable" because a handful of ads poke fun at it. Jokes don't change society. There are all sorts of things that poke fun at different races and sexualities, but those haven't swayed public opinion. I highly doubt ads like this will, either.

Jokes might not change society. But attitudes behind the such jokes will not help change anything for the better.

[Amnesiac]

Jokes might not change society. But attitudes behind the such jokes will not help change anything for the better.

They won't make anything worse, either, which is why they don't matter.

There's no point in attacking politically incorrect comedy. It's a form of entertainment that nobody takes seriously, for obvious reasons. Awareness groups for things like domestic abuse spend way too much time bitching about trivial things like this. There's no reason to. They should, by all means, promote their causes, but attacking people who are just having a bit of fun isn't the way to get people to support them.