>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?
Sex appeal sells. That's not new. I am surprised the first ad generated outrage.
I really liked New Zealand women. The thinking man's dream. They were smart, convivial, friendly. And goers, I mention only in passing. There was one I really should have asked to marry me.