lomatopo Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Well at least one of the characters was not in "blackface", or sporting Nazi attire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totster Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I love it, very funny and I can't see the offense. totster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unanimosity Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Sort of frightening to see how well he switches from a male voice to a female voice.......... It's not over-dubbed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globeman Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I wonder how they felt about the sperm bank robbery ad? Yes, that was low comedy genius - but it did ridicule the far-sighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globeman Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Why dont they pick on the ladyboy in the advert for selling them out? Oh yes he/she is Thai therefore CANNOT be wrong! That's a bit of an assumption, isn't it? Forgive me, but you seem in need of a rest home cure. Sometimes it seems that Thailand was created solely for the purpose of discriminating against farangs, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PhilipCook Posted January 24, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2013 If this was a Thai company, bank, restaurant this would this be considered cute. Ikea's mistake was to use Thai marketing tactics because they aren't Thai and should not pretend to be. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeycountry Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I agree, most ladyboys are not deceitful, they are openly trying to steal your money or your phone. Why they are tolerated,and not removed from various party areas such as Soi Nana, Walking Street, Soi Bangla, Soi Green Mango etc. is beyond me. Afterall, I am quite sure that if a known gang of ordinary male thieves were standing there openly robbing tourists night after night, even the ineffective Thai police would do something about it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) I've heard that they can be very deceitful...especially at around 2am after a heavy night out..... Strange thing to say - there's a very big difference between the normal ladyboy and the ones that you see at 2am in probably a tourist area. Why do many people think of prostitutes or promiscuity when ladyboys are mentioned? I've known some who are the opposite. Edited January 24, 2013 by Neeranam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candypants Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I've heard that they can be very deceitful...especially at around 2am after a heavy night out..... Strange thing to say - there's a very big difference between the normal ladyboy and the ones that you see at 2am in probably a tourist area. to encounter that, you need to actually get out of the tourist area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimamey Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Well this is certainly educational for me. I never realised that transgenders had no sense of humour. When was this letter sent? The advert ran from the 28th December to 13 January and they're sending a letter now? Have they only just noticed?. Maybe they were too busy getting unsuspecting males (probably farang) to buy stuff in Ikea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candypants Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 If this was a Thai company, bank, restaurant this would this be considered cute. Ikea's mistake was to use Thai marketing tactics because they aren't Thai and should not pretend to be. how then would you reccommend they market to thais in thailand? does the same apply to kfc, macdonalds, sony, aplle or any other rmultinational with a thai operation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectre324 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Years ago an American businessman fell in love (heat) with a lady boy, and never did realize he/she was a lady boy until he took her to the American Embassy to fill out Marriage papers! he was told that in the U.S. a man could not marry a Man! kind of ruined his whole day! kept looking in the post to see what hotel he jumped off of! often wondered what took him so long to figure it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasy Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I wonder how they felt about the sperm bank robbery ad? 555555 both are extremely funny the one from the sperm bank I can see over and over again. funny facts of life that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomatopo Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Redecorate yourself. The French one is "cute", if a bit painful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RoA8Ye2cmE Edited January 24, 2013 by lomatopo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro01 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I would suggest that if people want to be treated as equals, they not throw their toys out of their prams over a little joke like this. We really should not need to be bending over backwards for these people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomatopo Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Progress? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanson Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I agree, most ladyboys are not deceitful, they are openly trying to steal your money or your phone. Why they are tolerated,and not removed from various party areas such as Soi Nana, Walking Street, Soi Bangla, Soi Green Mango etc. is beyond me. Afterall, I am quite sure that if a known gang of ordinary male thieves were standing there openly robbing tourists night after night, even the ineffective Thai police would do something about it! Is this your attempt at humour or are you being deliberately obtuse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chooka Posted January 24, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2013 So you go out to a bar, have a few beers and take a girl home and when you unpack it you find you to many pieces. You go to Ikea buy a product and take it home unpack it and end up with to many pieces. What is the difference? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickymaster Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Years ago an American businessman fell in love (heat) with a lady boy, and never did realize he/she was a lady boy until he took her to the American Embassy to fill out Marriage papers! he was told that in the U.S. a man could not marry a Man! kind of ruined his whole day! kept looking in the post to see what hotel he jumped off of! often wondered what took him so long to figure it out! often wondered what took him so long to figure it out! Ladyboy or transsexual? Ladyboy he should have known. Transsexual can be difficult to know (I have been told... ) Maybe it was a virgin with a no-sexual-activity-before-marriage policy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 i think it is very funny. shes pretty hot to boot You mean "HE" not my cup of tea. I prefer women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucie Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I wonder how they felt about the sperm bank robbery ad? I thought the sperm bank one was funny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harada Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I am all for equal rights and respectful of all humans but I dont think this is really that deceitful. The most deceitful thing about the ad is that those boxes usually weigh around 50 kgs! You gotta be Arnold Schwartzenegar to throw them over your shoulder like that Maybe she was Arnold Schwatzenegar at one time,havent heard much of him since the love love child episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R10wota Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Well let us imagine a normal man and a woman in this ad. Would it give the same message ? would it leave a negative impact on all the women? would it still be decietfull? Why are some people so shallow? If you know that you are not like that then laugh it off and enjoy the humour. Why get angry as if they are showing something what you think you are? There are a lot of ads that are more sexist than this. Yes Thai Ads... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globeman Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 And another "stereotype" that becomes painfully obvious over this non-issue: Thai transgender people have no sense of humour. As the saying goes, "humour is if you can have a laugh about yourself". Actually, Thai comedy makes fun of transgendered folks a lot, and I expect they get a bit sick of it. If you compare it to British humour, which, originating from a more egalitarian society, spares no one from ridicule - upper classes, nobility, the average man on the street, northerners, Londoners, politicians, etc... Brits can look at their own stereotypes with some sense of irony. Thailand's humour has not advanced to this level yet (if it ever will)... the upper classes see nothing amusing about themselves and of course can have such ridicule blocked. So Thai humour tends to make fun of its "freaks" - its exceptions to what is "normal". This includes ladyboys, as often as not. Or the stupid clownish guy, or the guy with the funny face - or dark skin. Oh yeah, it's all in good fun - for the good-looking (by their own standards) light-skinned, socially "normal" folk. For the record though, I do think the commercial is funny. But I can see how ladyboys might seize the opportunity an international chain ad like this one presents to make the point that they are sick of being perceived as freaks and the constant butt of jokes - in the media and everywhere else. A complaint doesn't necessarily mean that they don't find it funny, or have no sense of humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I agree, most ladyboys are not deceitful, they are openly trying to steal your money or your phone. Why they are tolerated,and not removed from various party areas such as Soi Nana, Walking Street, Soi Bangla, Soi Green Mango etc. is beyond me. Afterall, I am quite sure that if a known gang of ordinary male thieves were standing there openly robbing tourists night after night, even the ineffective Thai police would do something about it! Is this your attempt at humour or are you being deliberately obtuse? Maybe I am obtuse too ....... I have fended off more than one pickpocket attempt by them, and consider them a quite annoying part of Thailand. Wait is that politically incorrect to say?? I think this commercial is somewhat funny. I guess the Transgender Group does not believe in the common expression that any publicity is good publicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globeman Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I agree, most ladyboys are not deceitful, they are openly trying to steal your money or your phone. Why they are tolerated,and not removed from various party areas such as Soi Nana, Walking Street, Soi Bangla, Soi Green Mango etc. is beyond me. Afterall, I am quite sure that if a known gang of ordinary male thieves were standing there openly robbing tourists night after night, even the ineffective Thai police would do something about it! In a perfect world, known thieves should be moved on, (if that is actually legal), but not simply because they are men dressed up as women... or Jews... or Blacks... "known male thieves" would not be moved along because they are male. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I would suggest that if people want to be treated as equals, they not throw their toys out of their prams over a little joke like this. We really should not need to be bending over backwards for these people. bedning over forwards perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimamey Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I would suggest that if people want to be treated as equals, they not throw their toys out of their prams over a little joke like this. We really should not need to be bending over backwards for these people. bedning over forwards perhaps? Beat me to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawndoc Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 With all the movies and TV shows that mock ladyboys, this commercial is what they choose to get upset about? Really? If a show or movie has slide whistle and other goofy sound effects, its guaranteed to be full of ugly TG stereotypes and humor at their expense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiThaiMai Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I don't see all that much 'derogatory' towards the transgender grouping in this brief vdo; slightly humorous perhaps,and at best. On the subject of "transgender" have you seen this amazing vdo-clip: Certainly blew me away ! Worth a look & listen. MaiThaiMai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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