Writing on Make the Logo Bigger, Bill Green questions Crispin Porter Bogusky’s use of sexual harassment in the office place as the focal point of one of its commercials for Haggar. Because the spot focuses on male sexual harassment, it’s perfectly fine to turn it into one big joke. Watch the spot. Now watch it again but imagine the men as women and the women as men. Would that approach be acceptable? Would it pass the PC test? We think not.
Yea, yea. We know. It’s a joke. We get it. But consider this. Why is it OK to joke about male sexual harassment while, at the same time, it’s not OK to joke about female sexual harassment?
