I think what’s most offensive about these new condom ads is that once again it makes the creation of life an evil. So in a world where two people choose to sleep with those they don’t particularly care for, who’s the bad guy? The baby, of course. That’s why the sperm is made to look like Osama bin Laden, Hitler and Mao. So here’s the upshot: If you don’t use condoms you’re probably going to give birth to a murderous dictator. The irony is that it’s exactly this kind of devaluation of human life which has led to the widespread murderous regimes of the past century.
HT The Corner
April 15, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Also the Mao one is possibly racist. Bad choice to put the Mao hair on a sperm that is colored yellow.
April 15, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Wow…
So, if all male sperm is like an evil dictator, then guys firing blanks are the good guys?
And it will take how many generations (born exclusively from broken condoms) for humanity to die out all together?
Excuse me?
April 15, 2009 at 4:56 pm
File this under WTH were they thinking?
April 15, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Maybe they need one more… a brown one with The Obamessiah hair.
Hmmm…. don’t think we’d see THAT one in the commercial now, would we???
*sarcasm*
April 15, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Uh. Wow.
Those are pretty awful.
April 15, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Maybe I’m pushing the idea too far, but it seems to me that the intent behind this advertising compaign is to draw the question of ‘What if the parents of Hitler, Mao, and Osama bin Laden had used a condom that time?’
What a horrible way to look at ones potential offspring!
Of course what the ads neglect to show is the sperm with the faces of people like Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, and Lech Walesa.
But thankfully, these ads are so offensive that the won’t last long.
April 15, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Umm, I wasn’t aware that any of the depicted demi-gods were the result of “unplanned” pregnancies.
Hitler was born to a Catholic family. Mao to a tradtional Chinese family. Even Bin Ladin was born to a religious family. All were accepted with open arms by presumably loving parents.
So, what’s the point?
April 15, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I thought the first one looked like a microphone and was somehow connected to American Idol or something.
April 15, 2009 at 9:12 pm
These are just weird! What were the ad men thinking???
April 15, 2009 at 10:37 pm
This is so depressing. Babies are awesome. I just wish that more people understood that.
*sigh*
April 15, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I’m absolutely ashamed to be a human being some times. Geessh. These ads are just deplorable.
April 15, 2009 at 10:51 pm
But, I want to add: I’m very glad to be here! My mum was told she should abort me (had gotten pregnant too soon after surgery). Well, she told them NO WAY. Here I am and almost 40!!!
April 16, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Praise the Lord that you’re here, Sarah.
April 16, 2009 at 7:59 pm
What everyone who sees these thinks to themselves…(it is however a thought-crime according to DHS)
http://heyitsjustablogman.blogspot.com/2009/04/momma-forgot-her-bastard-prevention.html
(almost too easy)
April 17, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hey wakey wakey you condom manufacturer chappies. What if at the last moment Hitler, Mao or whichever dictator you want to think of, repented. Yes thats right he might be in purgatory and then after purgatory he goes to heaven.
These ads are very offensive. The FCC needs to pull them off, not only are they wrong morally they are also racially offensive.
April 17, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Those are FRICKEN GREAT! Awesome ad. Would love to see it run in the USA.
April 17, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Ever seen the movie “Demographic Winter”?
April 19, 2009 at 6:47 am
I’ve gotta say that the thought that I just might conceive a Hitler or BinLadin is enough of a turn off that I would forgo sex altogether. Turning people off of sex is not a good way to market condoms.
April 19, 2009 at 7:13 am
I guess the meaning is that condoms save lives, though it took me a while to see that, as at first I just wanted a red, white, and blue one with a picture of my face on it.
April 20, 2009 at 6:10 am
Sorry, where were these found? And which brand claims these as their representation?