Hi everyone! Usually I try to avoid anything political (or personal) on my blog(s) because I just don’t want to go there if I don’t have to. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and just because I may not agree with something I can accept it and cross my fingers that the same is done for me. Anyway I recently saw an ad for Obamacare created by a pair of non-profit groups encouraging women to get health insurance. Not so bad right?
To be honest I’m not one to be easily offended but even this had me shaking my head. They make the women in the ad seem shallow and eager to hop in bed which is NOT the only reason women use birth control. As someone who used birth control in the past I find this generalization really offensive because I needed it for medical reasons. I wasn’t on it for the heck of it, I needed it for my health. These ads don’t acknowledge that, instead they go for the kill and suggest women who want to have sex should get insurance so that birth control is covered.
They even use Ryan Gosling in one of the ads! It could have been successful ad had the airhead language and content been changed. Overall this was not a good way to encourage women to get insurance and did more harm than good. It comes off as more of a joke than a statement, which shouldn’t apply to anything linked with health insurance. As always a link to the original article is below.