Although being called a worrier is a lot less insulting than some of the comments directed at atheists that are very commonly heard without objection*. Which it appears the point of the campaign. Speaking as an atheist who has in the past been called damned, evil, and a whore (and that's just in person, let alone in print - one memorable incidence of the latter by someone who actually thought I should be flattered that to be told if I weren't an atheist slut he's ask me out), my heart doesn't bleed for anybody who is momentarily discombobulated.
[ETA: And that's why they're reductive. They're not meant to persuade. They're meant to make people double-take and think "why is that advert weird". If they were complex, they wouldn't be much of a parody.]
*And routinely expected to be. As Radio 4 put it, a complaint against Thought for the Day doesn't stand if the offending language is "grounded in scripture". I am waiting for the day they excuse racist argument on these grounds as opposed to misogyny.
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Date: 2008-10-21 12:01 pm (UTC)[ETA: And that's why they're reductive. They're not meant to persuade. They're meant to make people double-take and think "why is that advert weird". If they were complex, they wouldn't be much of a parody.]
*And routinely expected to be. As Radio 4 put it, a complaint against Thought for the Day doesn't stand if the offending language is "grounded in scripture". I am waiting for the day they excuse racist argument on these grounds as opposed to misogyny.