Spirit Airlines Launches New, Offensive Ad Campaign

I actually think it excellent. Let the "I don't give a damn about the environment" states get slaughtered economically. Spill, baby, spill!.

I thought the "Beaches" part was just a stupid mockery/play on the word "bitches" pronounced with an accent.

No doubt. I'm wondering who tatted "50" on their boehner.

The ad neglects to mention Spirit's $50 surcharge for every bottle of tanning oil you take on your flight.

Stunning.

Spirit has a penchant for double entendre in their ads. A quick Google Image search will show that this is only their latest issue.

I guess some are too easily offended? Whatever you do don't go to Europe, they actually show nudity on TV. Pffft

Huzzah!

The campaign is, of course, as sexist as it is offensive to the residents of the Gulf Coast

I'm not so sure. Have you ever spent much time in the south, from big cities to the smallest towns? While it might be the Bible belt, their 12 and 14-year old daughters are running around in daisy dukes, hair teased up, with the reddest lipstick. From the perspective of where I live, they look like little underage prostitutes. But in the south, kids are running around impregnating each other thanks to abstinence only "education" and parents that seem oblivious to the contradictions between their holier-than-thou "Christian" attitudes and the little tarts and date rapists at home.

If only I could laugh at the ignorant states whose beaches will be forever spoiled by the oil gusher catastrophe. But, too bad Alabama and Mississippi. (Two of the most ignorant redneck states ever invented.)

Goodbye tourism for you. You'll never, ever get it back.

How's that drilly thing workin' out for ya!

this is tpm news?
who wrote this shit?

Have Fembots taken over TPM today? I don't know who Megan Carpentier is, but please spare us her views on "objectifying" a woman in a bikini who chooses to make money by modeling. I'll assume that Megan doesn't make her living as a model, and that's fine, but please don't let TPM be her soapbox for offensive commentary such as this!

I rarely get to read such overwrought "commentary" on such a nothing issue, but then I don't hang out on Tea Bagger sites. (BTW, where is TPM's horror at the way white men are always portrayed in commercials? Hint: Guess which one is always the moron who doesn't get it.) So let it rest. It's just a commercial.

Besides, it's pretty damn funny AND packs a little political punch. The beaches Spirit is pushing in the ads are all in places that opposed offshore drilling out of the fear that precisely this type of spill would happen. The Gulf Coast chanted "drill baby drill" and they got what they deserved. If the rest of us now benefit, maybe there's a lesson there.

Please, Ms. Carpentier, find some real discrimination to talk about. God knows, there are women being paid less, being sexually harassed and losing their jobs because of their sex. Write about that and we'll cheer you on.

Give me a break, you will never divorce sex from advertising, nor should you. Is it so horrible to sell beach vacations with attractive women? Do you protest Mr. Clean commercials with such vigor?

As for the oil comment -- well, it's damn true and it's a message worth sharing. People in the south have lost some of their beaches, perhaps they will be receptive to a trip outside of where they normally spend their vacations. Who would want to vacation in an oil covered wasteland?

I for one think any highlighting of the destruction caused by the oil spill, whether commercially motivated or not, is a good thing. Many people who shouted 'drill baby drill' have also enjoyed gulf coast beaches. Maybe if they are reminded that their summers have been stolen by their oil addiction they will stop voting for politicians completely who are subsidiaries of oil companies.

It's advertising they're supposed to get the most bang for their buck (sorry). If they had said women aren't qualified to fly to the beaches because they're weak or just because they're women. That would be sexist.

On the other point of using this ad now with all the coastal citizens hurting, seems to be in very poor taste.

Where I'm from, many women would identify with the woman in the lounge chair and think "I want to be that woman." Aspirational, not sexist. Unless you're from a cold, cold place and not used to taking your clothes off outdoors. The oil reference is what's tasteless.

As expected Spirit Airlines has now pulled this campaign due to widespread disgust.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/spirit-airlines-new-ad-mocks-bp-oil-spil/19526777/