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I've heard some people in the community say this is offensive, but I think it is casting CD etc. in slightly positive light. Sure she acknowledges that people might be offended, but then she praises it.

Danica Patrick Commercial - Boost Mobile (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lGA0VTRNhI#ws-lq-lq2-hq-vhq)

What are your thoughts?

I don't find it offensive. I agree with you it's nothing against CDs, just acknowledging them. And it's pretty obvious the actors are meant to be CDs and not TS.

I found that funny. People need to lighten up.

Theres probably 10,000 auto mechanics in the US who would consider the "dress code" a very small price to pay in order to get a spot on Danica's pitcrew.

Yeah...I got a kick out of it too  :laugh: Lighten up  :laugh: Not everything that features CDs or TG people is offensive. I thought the crew did a great job no matter how they're dressed is what stuck in my mind. If anything it was good press  :laugh:

The ad, imo, is not positive nor is it negative. It's a freakin ad and is meant to sell a product!

It's not hateful or holding up trans-folk to ridicule. To some extent it might even be seen as positive insofar as it helps to break down stereotypes and normalize "cross-dressing."

I've noticed that when one is a hammer one usually sees everything as a nail. :)   

More discussion of it at https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,60627.msg390353.html#msg390353 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,60627.msg390353.html#msg390353)

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It's no more 'offensive' than any of the other spots run for Go Daddy.  I was kinda amazed them good old boys could move that fast in them heels.

Offensive?  No, more like commentary on the role reversal (and probably the sexism encountered that goes along with it) of beinga female NASCAR driver. 

She does not drive NASCAR yet.  That commercial is shot using CART/USAC style cars, which she does race.

Or that.

i'm all for teamwork, as long as everything is protected i wouldn't care how they dressed. what matters is to win races, or in some drivers cases just finish them safely. i think if somebody like Jimmie Johnson had done the commercial then peeps would be severely worried, but it's Danica, it's a wonderful commercial. but i'm partial to anything Danica anways  ;). the girl i have at work who runs asset protection looks a lot like her but has better curves   ;D ;D ;D ;D

Didn't find it offensive. Didn't see it as positive either.
What I saw was a poor pun commercial..

Not at all offensive, but I do think it was a horrible commercial in general, like most are. :P

Not offensive in the least bit. Wouldn't it be nice if pit crews could really express themselves in this way and not get ostracized for it?

As a post-op MtF, I found it amusing and not at all offensive.

BTW I worked in auto racing during my entire RLE, with no problem. None. I'm still involved to a lesser degree, and still accepted.

Mark another one in the "not offensive" column. It's obviously a reference to Danica being a woman in a "man's" sport. The ad wouldn't make any sense if it were Dale Earnhart, Jr. instead of Ms. Patrick, would it?

Quote from: Alyssa M. on June 13, 2009, 12:10:55 AM
Mark another one in the "not offensive" column. It's obviously a reference to Danica being a woman in a "man's" sport. The ad wouldn't make any sense if it were Dale Earnhart, Jr. instead of Ms. Patrick, would it?

I hear he's trying to enlist her pit crew for himself  :laugh:

I hear he's trying to enlist her pit crew for himself 


the sad thing is he MIGHT actually win A race with her pit crew, and thats sad for NASCAR's most popular driver :( :( :( :(

Her crew was good, but at the end of the day no one had been faster than Helio Castroneves all month, as as long as he was in front with clear air, no one was going to catch him in the last 30 miles.  Maybe next year.

thank you heatherrose, you've summed up a lot of my current feelings, perfectly

Oh girls, here I thought it was bad enough when a guy didn't know the difference between open wheeled racing and NASCAR.  LOL.  Exile from Guyville for sure.

Just remember, the leaders of the community don't write blogs.  Nor do they tend to reply to them.  They are doing real leader things, you know drawing org charts, having meetings, eating doughnuts.  The blogs are for the people not doing that.

Trans people seem so touchy about stereotypes, perceived or actual.

I don't see every black man in the country witchin a fit when Ice Cube is on the radio rappin his junk about shooting cops and white people and tappin whores and snorting cocaine.

Just because they don't agree with it, doesn't mean they're overly sensitive to the point of being obnoxious.  I'm sure a lot of people laughed at that commercial, the ones who weren't disgusted by seeing fat guys running around in skimpy stripper getups.

I wanna make a commercial about fat ugly people... and diet soda.

Quote from: tekla on June 17, 2009, 08:45:07 AM
Oh girls, here I thought it was bad enough when a guy didn't know the difference between open wheeled racing and NASCAR.  LOL.  Exile from Guyville for sure.

Just remember, the leaders of the community don't write blogs.  Nor do they tend to reply to them.  They are doing real leader things, you know drawing org charts, having meetings, eating doughnuts.  The blogs are for the people not doing that.

I've got better things to do than watch cars turn left. 

Personal Opinion (of course)

American commercials appear to be so tame. Very conservative.

This commercial wouldn't register on the radar in Oz.

Don't understand the "joy" of Nascar. Just seem to go around in circles. No chicanes etc. Then again I don't watch motor sport anyway :laugh:

So my opinion on car racing is pretty well crap really.

Cindy

Not all NASCAR event are turn left, this weekend we do the famous "beer and Bordeaux" race at a road course in the heart of wine country.

Personally, I love the classic weekend at Laguna Seca in Monterey where all the old Dino Ferraris, the bathtub Porches, the old Shelby GTs get hauled out of the garages and car shows and really run. 

And yes Cindy, it is very tame stuff, but we have a soft underbelly of whiners here that is amazingly loud and shrill.  We try to ignore them however.

Quote from: CindyJames on June 18, 2009, 03:26:08 AM
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Don't understand the "joy" of Nascar. Just seem to go around in circles. No chicanes etc. Then again I don't watch motor sport anyway :laugh:

So my opinion on car racing is pretty well crap really.

I have to agree that oval racing leaves me somewhat cold.

The most enjoyable for me are the MotoGP motorcycle racing.  It could be the 125cc's with no-fear teens 6-abreast around corners, or the big bores with folks like Rossi et al doing their thing.  Personally, even F1 gets dull compared to a good m'bike race.

-J

Nothing beats a high speed cop chase.  Think of how much more interesting NASCAR could be with guns blazing and pit crews running out to put down spike strips in front of their competitors.  Now, that's excitement.

lol!

Mind you, please please can we not have that really annoying retired sheriff (John Bunnell) with his exaggerated melodramatic narrative?  I think he narrates on World's Wildest Police Videos.

Drive fast; turn left. (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-pbQvpJsTvxU/)

Ahh the Games.  Now that was sport.  "Those who are about to die salute you!"  Most excellent entertainment, the original circus.  I mean, even in the filming of the Ben Hur race someone died - and you have to love Hollywood - they left it in the film so we can see him die over and over still today.  Hard way to go, but hey, even if the stagehand died, no reason to scrap the print eh?

Still, most film buffs find the Ben Hur race a pale copy and rip-off of the 1925 race staged for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ staring Ramon Novarro.  Over 200,000 feet of film was shot for that sequence.  Pretty amazing stuff.

You can see it here.
http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ben-hur-chariot-race-clip/ (http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ben-hur-chariot-race-clip/)

NA$CAR isn't racing anymore, it's TV entertainment.

Give me short track open wheel racing anyday (sprints, super modifieds, midgets etc)

Quote from: tekla on June 18, 2009, 09:42:54 AM
Personally, I love the classic weekend at Laguna Seca in Monterey where all the old Dino Ferraris, the bathtub Porches, the old Shelby GTs get hauled out of the garages and car shows and really run. 

Saw a bit of that last year.  Pretty neat.

NA$CAR isn't racing anymore, it's TV entertainment.

Not even good entertainment at that.  Once they tossed out the stock cars and put custom engines in them so fast they needed restrictor plates, they turned the suck up 3000%.   It's just not the same.  However I lived off and on near Knoxville Iowa, and every year they had the sprint car championships there, and that stuff was rock and roll each and every second.

OMG one of these days I'm going to the Knoxville Nationals. I'd love to see that in person

Even people who think racing is go fast turn left are blown away by Knoxville.