The loopy radical feminist minority are at it again. This time they're offended by a scene in Marks and Spencer's Christmas TV ad, when Philip Glenister (aka DCI Gene Hunt) says Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without ... "that girl prancing around in her underwear." The ad then cuts to that girl prancing around in her underwear, who says "Moi?".
The Advertising Standards Authority is looking into eight complaints that the ad is sexist. Hmm. That's kinda the point of this one little scene - Glenister is reprising his highly successful and highly popular role as the fabulously unreconstituted 70s/80s sexist geezer. Marks and Spencer sell knickers. And "that girl" has been prancing around in her M&S scanties at Christmas for several years now. It's post-modern irony!
Here's what M&S should say to the complainers: Put your knickers on and make us a cup of tea.
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