I can't help but laugh at some of the ridiculous, uptight comments I scrolled through on this page. I am a 37-year old college educated woman who works in a professional environment (as if any of that is germane) and there is nothing offensive, frightening, embarrassing, humiliating or disrespectful about a woman in a bathing suit. It's an advertisement, designed to get attention, and that's precisely what it's done. Why the attention by some is so negative is beyond me.
I am starting to become very concerned that there seems to be a general consensus developing in our society that all things have to be PC and/or appeal to all people and that anyone who doesn't like something has the right to change it to their liking, or have it eradicated. Get over yourself -- you may be able to impose your puritanical views on your own children, but you can't force them on me or mine. You only live once, people -- lighten up and don't waste your time fretting over a bikini-clad model on a plane.
And while I have no objection to, say, featuring a female athlete hoisting a trophy in a similar context, I do not agree that it would have been a more appropriate image than the one used in the current campaign. Not everything has to be serious or serve an educational purpose!
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