Thursday, July 29, 2010

Ads on First and First still want us to feel badly about our bodies

EV Grieve reader K. Knipfing points out the new ad on the northeast corner of First Street and First Avenue...



"You can never be too thin." As K put it: "A timeless message from Pretzel Crisps lightly reminding you that you will never reach any 'goal' when it comes to your body."

Previously at this spot, H&M advertised its $4.95 "bikini tops" ...




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

and you can never be too wealthy!

*Kate* said...

Hello, I'm a Bostonian blogger who is currently writing about my recovery from an eating disorder. The pretzel crisps ad was at my bus stop on Monday, and I too decided to take action. Unfortunately, they replaced the ad with: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". To see what I did with that - please see my blog: http://katieandeddy.blogspot.com/

Thanks for being equally as enraged.

Best, Kate