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Q Of The Day: Setting Up A Visual Wrong?
by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 03:01:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/11256/q-of-the-day-setting-up-a-visual-wrong (http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/11256/q-of-the-day-setting-up-a-visual-wrong)

Monica Helms has posted on a new Boost Mobile ad that has Indy Car Driver Danika Patrick's pit crew crossdressed, and performing their duties as pit crew while engaged in a "visual wrong." They're calling the ad campaign this belongs to the "Unwronged" ad campaign. The ad:

A quote from the Danika Patrick from the second video:

    I think that they really have some cool concepts for their commercials that are definitely going to get people talking -- that are going to get people laughing.

Personally I don't see a problem with the ad other than the ones I see with ads anyhow -- the idea is always secondary to selling the product. Men in dresses, women signing their names on mens chests, dogs talking and wasabi brothers, it's all one.

Personally, I think Monica and Autumn are making more of the ad vis-a-vis trans folk than needs to be made. In point of fact, the ability to do this sort of thing in some ways normalizes the condition on a "by-blow" sort of level.

N~

I thought it was fine. It was really pro-trans yeehah! equal rights for all, but it certainly wasn't condemnation and these are the baby steps to social acceptance.

Danika Patrick

Here is the most accomplished woman in motor sports since Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney having come in third and forth in the Indy 500, as well as posting some of the fastest lap times in the history of the track, male or female AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SPELL HER NAME RIGHT! 

TOTAL FAIL.

Get a job and buy a sense of humor.

At first I was offended.  But then I watch it a second time.  And she is right, people will begin to talk about.  And then they will begin to look around, even if it in unconscious.

And maybe they will truly see that we are here to stay.

Janet

I liked the comment under the heading Much Ado About Nothing where the author said: The hair-trigger reactions to perceived insults -- intended or not -- dilute future ability to deal with real animus.  That seems about right.

Danica's comments re: performance enhancing drugs and not getting caught making it all right* todo so have pushed this little bit completly off the radar screen.

* was rhetorical not actually use thereof.

I'm not exactly aware of any drugs that help with hand to eye coordination at 224 MPH.

Quote from: tekla on June 04, 2009, 12:40:10 PM
I'm not exactly aware of any drugs that help with hand to eye coordination at 224 MPH.

O, Kat, I always found that crack was really good for that!! :laugh:

Remind me never to go driving with you.

And, I'm still amazed that having posted not one, but two clips that ID Patrick and spelled her name right, that they got it wrong in the write up.

Quote from: tekla on June 04, 2009, 12:45:55 PM
Remind me never to go driving with you.

And, I'm still amazed that having posted not one, but two clips that ID Patrick and spelled her name right, that they got it wrong in the write up.

O, it's been a long time since I used cocaine and even then never used crack and I don't drive much tbh. Usually the passenger and even when driving seldom exceed about 30 mph except on the interstaes where 60-65 is about normal. :) Genrally you'd be safe.

I've noticed that when someone's trying to make a spurious argument the details tend to ezcape them in the interest of flogging the argument. :)

Which I guess is also why she referred to her as "the Danika Patrick"

A quote from the Danika Patrick

I don't think there is more than one of them running around race tracks these days, the good old boys best hope not.  And, it is interesting that she did use her own crew for this, as you could not trust a bunch of actors with a car that expensive.  The sequence of them walking in heels for the first time was kinda cute really.  And I loved the moob signing deal, as someone who has seen lots of girls whip out the girls for some rock star to sign.

Quoteexcept on the interstaes where 60-65 is about normal.  Genrally you'd be safe.

LOL a few months ago on the interstate a narc cop in a pickup with blacked out windows stopped me with the blue flashing lights. He wanted to see if I was on drugs after I passed him at 140. After a little conversation he shook his head and let me go. He did not have tickets.

Been there myself. I was late for class and he asked me three times in a row if I had any meth (fyi I don't touch that ->-bleeped-<-). I don't know why he thought that would work. Like suddenly the third time I'd say, "What the hell I've never ridden in a police cruiser before..."

Hey just asking him back "no, but if you do I'll buy some from you 'cause I could sure use a bump" will get you that ride you've been dreaming of.  And there is some legal reason they ask you but I forget what it is.