New Aids campaign

I get the idea behind it, but it doesn't do anything for me.

Reply 3

wiwarin_mir

gossip_girl

that is the most stupidnest thing i have ever seen. where does it say AIDS? its so dumb

If you look, at the bottom of the picture.

It is not stupid, in fact it is rather clever.

Reply 4

TheLameMonkey

Is it wrong that the spider one turns me on?

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I mean, check out the ass on that spider.

Reply 5

Yes. That's wrong. :p:

The girl on the bed does it for me.

Reply 6

OP

So representing people who have aids as disgusting, venemous, objects of fear is a good thing? Pretty ill-thought out if you ask me.

Reply 7

wiwarin_mir

goldenbarnes

So representing people who have aids as disgusting, venemous, objects of fear is a good thing? Pretty ill-thought out if you ask me.

It shows that having unprotected sex will be a gamble, you could be signing your own death sentence.

I have seen another AIDs advert that had this girl handcuffed to a bed with this guy on top of her doing it in a remote mountain cottage. The guy siddenly drops dead and there is nothing she can do, also, equally effective.

Reply 8

goldenbarnes

So representing people who have aids as disgusting, venemous, objects of fear is a good thing? Pretty ill-thought out if you ask me.

They aren't, but they have those things inside them. They carry the means of your death within them just like the spider and the scorpion.

Reply 9

OP

lessthanthree

hardly.

The virus is the "creature" as it were - that kills you.

In reality of course that is the case, but in these pictures it's not just the virus that is being represented as a 'creature', it's the whole person.

And obviously the main point of the picture is that unprotected sex is a gamble, but if these posters became really widespread, then as soon as someone said AIDS they would think of that poster, and think of the 'vile creature'.

They're obviously not doing that on purpose, I just think some more care and thought could have been taken.

Reply 10

OP

Inverurie Jones

They aren't, but they have those things inside them. They carry the means of your death within them just like the spider and the scorpion.

I know in reality they aren't, but that's not the way the poster is presenting them.

Reply 11

blissy

15

I hate them! :eek:

Especially the spider one

Reply 12

goldenbarnes

They're obviously not doing that on purpose, I just think some more care and thought could have been taken.

Care and thought might render the ads less effective. Yes, they may upset some people, but that's just hard cheese, really ; they're intended to save lives.

Reply 13

OP

Inverurie Jones

Care and thought might render the ads less effective. Yes, they may upset some people, but that's just hard cheese, really ; they're intended to save lives.

Not care and thought as the output of the campaign, but they could have realised one of the representations they're presenting. There are other ways of doing it (as mentioned above) that can still be shocking and effective yet not portray aids sufferers as monsters.

Reply 14

OP