Racy Burger Ad Leaves Teachers Furious
Sunday , September 09, 2007
A fast food chain’s racy new advertising campaign has left at least one teacher’s organization demanding it be pulled.
The ad for St. Louis, Missouri-based Hardee’s Corporation features a sexy teacher, making provocative moves in front of the class while two students rap to a song called “Flat Buns,” according to a report on myFOXstl.com.
Click here for the report from MyFOXStl.com
“How irresponsible can you get?” said the Tennessee Education Association in a statement on their website. ”At this very moment, there are female teachers in high school classrooms with 30+ students who are working hard to teach our children so that they can compete in today’s world. It is unbelievably demeaning to every one of them to promote a television advertisement showing a young teacher gyrating on top of her desk while boys in the class rap about her body in order to sell hamburgers!”
Hardee’s claims the ad is obviously a spoof, pointing out that the target demographic for the ad is young men who find this type of ad campaign appealing.
The fast-food chain courted controversy before with a provocative hamburger ad featuring Paris Hilton.
So, go to Hardees and watch the commercial.
Is it racy? Not necessarily. No worse than most of the other rap videos corroding young minds today. I think it’s pretty damn funny. And I remember a few of my teachers I wouldn’t have minded seeing do something like that.
In all fairness, the second ad on the Hardees site is a hell of a lot more “racy” than the one with the teacher. I didn’t hear any bitching about that one possibly corrupting young minds, but then teachers and their union are actually more interested in preserving their phoney-baloney jobs than they are in preventing soft-core pr0n from influencing young male minds. So naturally they’re only upset about the ad that makes teachers look bad. (They’ll probably endorse showing the other one in sex-ed classes.)