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The Body Shop
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Mattel sent The Body Shop a cease-and-desist order, demanding to pull the self-esteem posters featuring Ruby - a rubenesque anti-Barbie - from American shop windows, because she was insulting to the real Barbie. Then, in Hong Kong, posters of Ruby were banned on the Mass Transit Railway because authorities said that in her nude (albeit nippleless and pubic-hair-free) condition, she would offend passengers. One shop in the US was forced to take down a Ruby poster after a mall patron said his daughter had been traumatized by seeing it.

Source: bestrejectedadvertising.com

4 Comments

Ankit Soni@creativebits.org's picture 6 pencils

So much For censorship. Long live the Net!!! 3 cheers for AOTW!!!

Guest's picture

wow, that was pulled?
ridiculous. some people are way too sensitive

Guest's picture

this is not nice

Hadrons's picture 3690 pencils

I can't believe it actually happened.

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