Some post.com'rs Reject New Ad Campaign
Earlier, we told you about washingtonpost.com’s new ad campaign featuring these ginormous hands. Now, Erik Wemple unearth’s a campaign within washingtonpost.com to stop the ads.
The offended parties are seven anonymous women who apparently work in and around the confines of washingtonpost.com’s offices. Via a March 6 letter, they protest the presence of dot-com’s big hand, on every sort of modern, politically correct count in the book. Here’s a sampling:
“To see this big white male hand as we walk into work each morning is a sharp reminder of our past difficulties and, obviously, how far we have yet to go to overcome bias and workplace oppression.”
Ridiculous? Sort of.
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