>Air New Zealand produces quirky advertisements and safety videos (check on Youtube) usually with double-entendres and inside jokes for those who live down under.
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>But the latest is causing a storm about sexualizing women. Filmed in the Cook Islands which in 2014 is the way the Bahamas were 50 years ago, iow an unpaved paradise, it features swimsuit models.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL6R2yq7R8M>
>Curiously, this one didn't generate the same reaction:
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>E.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS06IW1bdLg>
>Is this sexist, or just Air NZ being very smart generating free publicity?
Quickest way I know of to answer that question is to reverse the gender. Would it still be funny/quirky/etc with barely dressed men?
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