Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Tri-Cyclen commercials

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the commercial showing young girls trying new things, with the voiceover of "try being good! try being bad! try sleeping in! try being your own girl!" and so on and so on. But only recently did it occur to me that these girls--these 14 to 15 year old girls are advertising birth control. Its not that I'm against sex or anything, its just that these girls seem really really young to be advertising birth control. Some of the girls even look like they could be in grade eight or something. It really makes me wonder what the advertisers are trying to do. are they trying to get teens and pre-teens to have sex at a younger age ? the weirdest thing about this commercial is that it really doesnt stand out very much at all; most people don't even notice its advertising birth control, and if they do realize that they don't put together that the commercial is insinuating these pre-teen girls are having sex. The main slogan of the commercial is "try being your own girl." Is it trying to tell young girls that they can only be themselves by having (extremely) underaged sex ?

1 comment:

hews said...

I thought it was like a bullying commercial ahahahah....