I went and voted to keep the ads. I think they are not only edgy, but socially responsible. They bring attention to topics that NEED attention (along with attention to their business) and do it in a way that if a child came across, they wouldn't know what they meant.

Just my two cents.

Looks like edgy's winning - about 70% to 30%. Yay.

*Snickers*

Yeah, ads give "just the facts" in so many other cases, that clearly that's the issue at hand.

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but either way, that phrase paired with the field of advertising just makes me chuckle.

And also, to be fair, just "just giving the facts" would be immensely edgy in and of itself. So I'm at at a loss in this vote!

It said 0% voted for each. Wouldn't my vote alone make it 100%?!

I actually have a problem with this ad. Maybe it's just me (it's quite possible it is), but it seems like saying "Your closet space is shrinking" is a direct allusion to the general social myth that women are shopping-obsessed. Just a thought.

79 to 20, Edgy

thegirlriots, I took it to be a reference to the puny amount of space in many NY apartments, irrespective of gender.

I didn't vote on this.

I don't think the ad is in the least bit "edgy". The ad states a fact that women are losing their rights as we are discussing this and the fact and the matter is that as long as we have rogue people in our federal government (such as Bush, Brownback and Sensenbrenner), then women will continue to lose their rights, until they have no rights left. The picture of the coathanger is in itself a fact of what women will have to do in order to save their own lives if the United States Republican Taliban Party remains in power.

I love the billboard. One thing they need to do is to put up a billlboard of a live crying newborn and the casket carrying the baby's dead mother with the caption: "This is what happens when women have no choice."

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--I love the billboard. One thing they need to do is to put up a billlboard of a live crying newborn and the casket carrying the baby's dead mother with the caption: "This is what happens when women have no choice."--

I agree. I recall an image I saw once that was absolutely gut-wrenching. It was a picture of a dead newborn baby tossed in the trash. THAT is murder, not abortion. THAT is what happens when women have no choice.

I don't know, I think they are just mocking the whole abortion thing. As well as playing on the female stereotype of power-shopper. I don't think it's "edgy." What does any of this have to do with storage? How are they raising this issue in any kind of useful way? They seem to be laughing about women's right to choose being limited. It just seems disrespectful to me.

i don't see anything in it that implies women have any kind of obsession with shopping. it doesn't say "her closet space is shrinking" or "your right to choose, ladies" - closets in NYC are tiny, you put one thing in em, they shrink. and the thing you put em in on is a hanger. no wire hangers!
i dig this ad cuz it is calm and puts it out there. i voted to keep it edgy, although i do agree that edgy vs factual ain't exactly the point.

I'm not pleased about the inference of the wire hanger and it's ties to abortions. I like edgy, but not tasteless.