Subway Slammed for Sexy Halloween Costume Ad

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Michael Allen - Opposing Views


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Subway recently aired a commercial featuring a woman wearing various sexy Halloween costumes, thanks to the restaurant's healthy menu.

The outfits in the ad include a viking, schoolteacher, nurse, linebacker and devil (video below).

However, The Hollywood Reporter notes there has been outrage on Twitter where people have accused Subway of being "sexist, misogynistic and sizeist."

According to Mediaite.com and The Hollywood Reporter, some of the angry tweets include:

Time out. Hold up. What the hell Subway?! Have y’all seen the Halloween Subway commercial? WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!?

Just saw the new @SUBWAY commercial shaming people into being "in shape for Halloween costumes". Way to be misogynistic AND sizeist.

So disappointed with @SUBWAY new commercial wants you to keep eating their subs so you can fit into the slutty Halloween costumes. #Subway

Really, @Subway? We should eat your crappy sandwiches so we can look hot in skanky Halloween costumes? REALLY?

I will never eat at @SUBWAY again in protest to this ad. Sexist, stupid and sexist. Did I mention sexist?

The Huffington Post seethed, "While we doubt anyone will take this seriously, the very idea that women have even more things they should be dieting for is pretty gross."

Jezebel called the ad "obviously sexist... stupid and lazy."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RasO_knJuf4

[Hal-9000]

don't wear the sexy nurse costume if you're a lard ass :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

You just found the twitter fatties :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

:-k

They should have found a more attractive woman for the ad. It would have pissed all the twitter fatties off more.

[RBP]

I learned a new term for the internet fanatics who do this. They proudly call themselves SJW - social justice warriors.

And Jezebel is not exactly an independent source of opinion on anything.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[Noilly Pratt]

Funnily enough, I just learnt about SJWs this weekend. Amazing how things propagate so quickly.

I remember the controversy it caused when one of the summer students we had at work came in at Halloween dressed up as Emma Peel. She definitely got some male attention that day! :D

[Hal-9000]

Porky's posts :rofl:


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[perrhaps]

"Sizeist" ? Is that really a word? How about "Lardassomist" instead?

[Hal-9000]

Cantkeepthefoodouttathemouthist

[deebakes]

fucking ridiculous :facepalm:

[Muddy]

I liked the commercial..

[deebakes]

i just spent about a week in greece and the differences between how they act and think versus here is remarkable. topless beaches/pools are everywhere and people just seem happy :shrug:

also the fact that obese europeans are hard to find doesn't hurt either :lol:

[Muddy]

Thats because those people work in the stone mines all day..

[Griffin]

I'd like to go with Viking Lady again also! :doggybanana:

[RBP]

I hadn't watched the commercial until just now.

Much ado about nothing.