Trevor

Spring Valley ad
Sep 2008

Agency: George Patterson Y&R
Creative Director: Ben Coulson
Art Director: Chris Northam
Copywriter: Simon Bagnasco
Agency Producer: Luisa Peters
Directed by: Nice Trees
Production: The Directors Group & Iloura
Character Design: Julian Frost

• Category

  Entertainment

[Sarah Brown]

Transpbobia for fun and profit!

[kellyholden1983]

1)Homophobia fail.

2)I'm sorry, but what exactly is 'transvestite' about a guy wearing men's clothing?

[thestrugglewithin]

At least this company had the guts to say it as it is instead of conforming to extremist liberal PC lunacy. 

[thestrugglewithin]

Its not transphobia. Its saying that its complete utter FAIL to wake up next to a transvestite ~instead~ of where you (male implied in the add) SHOULD be; girlfriend.

Aka, the latter would be abnormal (as trans-sexuality) and the former is normal (as is heterosexuality).

I find it hilarious that when I was typing this, I spelled 'trans-sexuality' incorrectly, in which the spell check recommended "heterosexuality"

[thestrugglewithin]

1) Its not homo or transphobia. Its saying that its complete utter FAIL to wake up next to a transvestite ~instead~ of where you (male implied in the add) should be; girlfriend.

2) yea, I agree on that point.

[bubbleandsqueeky]

LOL. so cute...

[rmk911]

that thing is fucken cute.

[fatmungus]

Political correctness is way too far gone these days. This add has nothing to do with discrimination anyway. I'm sure they used a transvestite only because it sounds better in terms of the joke delivery. Your also missing the point of the add. Maybe you yourself should find your sensible ;)

[austealth]

omg why couldnt have stopped trevor getting to me!

[vodkatechnique]

i also dont see obese people getting bashed up or loosing their jobs because they are obese.

[vodkatechnique]

I was more of the Sensible's reaction when he moved away - 'ew, im not standing next to THAT'.

its not making a scene about being different, its the fact that transgender people deal with that sort of shit every day.

And i never said 'obese', just said ugly.

[bloodwhiterose]

So it's more socially acceptable to make fun of 'ugly' women than homosexuality or transphobia? I suppose if they had put an obese woman on the ad not half as many people would have complained. You'd hear more "fat bitch" comments than "that's discrimination towards obese people". Just another excuse to make a scene about being different.