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Anti-abortion dry cleaner puts message on his wire coat hangers

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Pro-Life Dry Cleaner Puts Anti-Abortion Message on Coat Hangers

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Classy.

This reminds me of my recent bus excursion to Texas. All over the place in the American hinterland there are farm houses and water towers with gaudy anti-abortion messages plastered all about them, usually done up in annoying colours and occasionally misspelled. They remind me of Las Vegas, for some reason.
 
That's.....odd. I have no problem with a private business advertising political messages. I wouldn’t give this story a second thought if the message was put on their plastic garment covers. But a HANGER seems like a really weird place to put an anti-abortion message. It is also a reminder of what women had to resort to before abortion was legal, so it also seems to undermine their message as well.

Hey, it’s a free country, but that is a strange tactic.
 
Sure, I don't think anyone's advocating not letting these people do whatever they want. That said, I find it tasteless and appalling and I'd never frequent their business.
 
I find it odd that you would find the idea of an individual's statement regarding choosing life appalling and tasteless. I am pro-choice, but to me, the idea of killing a fetus is far more appalling than letting it live.
 
That's.....odd. I have no problem with a private business advertising political messages. I wouldn’t give this story a second thought if the message was put on their plastic garment covers. But a HANGER seems like a really weird place to put an anti-abortion message. It is also a reminder of what women had to resort to before abortion was legal, so it also seems to undermine their message as well.

Hey, it’s a free country, but that is a strange tactic.

It may be due to the infamous image that hangers have when discussing abortions. Personally, I don't have a problem with it.
 
I find it odd that you would find the idea of choosing life appalling and tasteless. I am pro-choice, but to me, the idea of killing a fetus is far more appalling than letting it live.

I find it odd that you would find that I think the "idea of choosing life appalling and tasteless", as opposed to the idea of putting an anti-abortion message on a coathanger "appalling and tasteless", on the basis of this thread. Really, if that's your takeaway from all this, my advice to you is to work on your reading comprehension skills.

That said, I'm not especially sentimental about the issue of abortion. But I was pretty clearly talking about this advertising scheme in the context of this thread.
 
I find it odd that you would find that I think the "idea of choosing life appalling and tasteless", as opposed to the idea of putting an anti-abortion message on a coathanger "appalling and tasteless", on the basis of this thread. Really, if that's your takeaway from all this, my advice to you is to work on your reading comprehension skills.

That said, I'm not especially sentimental about the issue of abortion. But I was pretty clearly talking about this advertising scheme in the context of this thread.

It looks like a pretty succinct and symbolic message to me. I guess I'm just not so easily offended by someone's ability to make a direct statement so clearly.
 
It looks like a pretty succinct and symbolic message to me. I guess I'm just not so easily offended by someone's ability to make a direct statement so clearly.

I found it dumb as Hell, tacky, and an imposition on the customers (who may not appreciate overt politicking in their laundry mat). Again, nobody's going to try to take away his right to do whatever he wants. If he wants to run off potential customers, I'm more than happy to let him do so.
 
I found it dumb as Hell, tacky, and an imposition on the customers (who may not appreciate overt politicking in their laundry mat). Again, nobody's going to try to take away his right to do whatever he wants. If he wants to run off potential customers, I'm more than happy to let him do so.

Did you find it dumb because you disagree with it and you want to suppress the opposing view?

I'm going to bet that the owner is willing to lose some money to save an innocent human life.
 
Did you find it dumb because you disagree with it and you want to suppress the opposing view?

I don't think you understand what "suppression" means. "Suppression" means actively forcing someone not to express a certain view. Again, the guy can do as he wants. It's his laundry mat. But opting not to go there, and agitating that others of a like mind not take their business there, isn't "suppressing" anything. That's the way markets work. And to insinuate it is "suppressing" his freedom of speech does nothing but suggest to me that you've never actually had your freedom of speech suppressed and wouldn't recognize it if you did.
 
Sure, I don't think anyone's advocating not letting these people do whatever they want. That said, I find it tasteless and appalling and I'd never frequent their business.

We know how you people feel about fly-over country. It's been understood for 20 years.
 
I don't think you understand what "suppression" means. "Suppression" means actively forcing someone not to express a certain view. Again, the guy can do as he wants. It's his laundry mat. But opting not to go there, and agitating that others of a like mind not take their business there, isn't "suppressing" anything. That's the way markets work. And to insinuate it is "suppressing" his freedom of speech does nothing but suggest to me that you've never actually had your freedom of speech suppressed and wouldn't recognize it if you did.

I find it to be poetic justice that he uses coat hangers for an anti-abortion message.
 
They are free to do what they want, but everyone else is also free to stop doing business with them. I know I would.
 
I find it to be poetic justice that he uses coat hangers for an anti-abortion message.

Okay. Which has what, exactly, to do with the notion I'm "suppressing" his freedom of speech by expressing my own?
 
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Pro-Life Dry Cleaner Puts Anti-Abortion Message on Coat Hangers

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Classy.

This reminds me of my recent bus excursion to Texas. All over the place in the American hinterland there are farm houses and water towers with gaudy anti-abortion messages plastered all about them, usually done up in annoying colours and occasionally misspelled. They remind me of Las Vegas, for some reason.

Its a new business advertized in the WSJ... selling advertizing on drying cleaning.. Its free to the dry cleaners. You can advertize anything you choose... But, who reads their drying cleaning?
 
Okay. Which has what, exactly, to do with the notion I'm "suppressing" his freedom of speech my expressing my own?

The extreme right like to use the argument that anyone who disagree's with their opinion is suppressing their freedom of speech by speaking out against it. That is a whole lot easier than defending their positions.
 
It may be due to the infamous image that hangers have when discussing abortions. Personally, I don't have a problem with it.

Of course you don't. That's because you've never had to live in a time where women died from coathangers being shoved into their vaginas.
 
Of course you don't. That's because you've never had to live in a time where women died from coathangers being shoved into their vaginas.

And neither have you, sonny.
 
Of course you don't. That's because you've never had to live in a time where women died from coathangers being shoved into their vaginas.

Where you alive in this time? Is that even relevant though?
 
Hey! Watch those cracks about Vegas. We're pro-money here, we don't care if you live or die.


Pro-Life Dry Cleaner Puts Anti-Abortion Message on Coat Hangers

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Classy.

This reminds me of my recent bus excursion to Texas. All over the place in the American hinterland there are farm houses and water towers with gaudy anti-abortion messages plastered all about them, usually done up in annoying colours and occasionally misspelled. They remind me of Las Vegas, for some reason.
 
I lived in that time. We also used coat hangers to unlock car doors. No TV either.

Excuse me, I must return to my iron lung now.
 
Where you alive in this time? Is that even relevant though?

And neither have you, sonny.

That's precisely the point. I don't care for going back to a time where women had to go through that. Certain elements of the extremist religious right wing obviously do (this guy for example).

It's a simple point for you two fellows, I don't need be a Jew who lived through 1945 in order to know the Holocaust was bad. I don't need to be a chicken in order to know KFC is not a good thing for chickens. However, that you two can't seem to understand that using a ****ing coathanger just to have an abortion (and so that the desires of your religious and arguably fictional deities can be fulfilled ) is bad, leaves me with two options: Either you're letting your own religious hatred for CHOICE blind you, or you really don't understand what's wrong with using a coathanger in order to support the anti-choice side. So which is it boys?

Essentially, from a professional point of view (I work in advertisement) this 'ad' is telling women that he wants to go back to that time. The choice of medium is all one needs to deduce that.
 
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That's precisely the point. I don't care for going back to a time where women had to go through that. Certain elements of the extremist religious right wing obviously do.

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I don't think you understand the pro-life stance if you think that's what it's all about.
 
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