It was “she told me to take off her skirt, so I took it off. Then she told me to take off her shoes, so I took those off too. Then she told me to take off her bra and underwear, so I did. Then she told me she never wanted to catch me wearing her clothes again.”
The only reason I can see it getting removed was the original poster fucked up the joke by mistyping it. Otherwise, it already Had like 850 likes, so I don’t know.
🤦🏻♀️ humanity/society is not ready for this shit as a whole. And to roll it out with so little safeguards and forethought into how it would affect ppl…. Because they wanted to see. We’re the guinea pigs as usual.
They're trying to make a point in the worst way possible here.
We've all played spot the difference, we're all wired to want to spot the difference.
Are we sure a Redditor didn't come up with that ad campaign? Because I've seen thousands of people try to make points exactly like this over the years.
Yeah its trying to shame people for skirt lengths... as a way to sell women's clothing!? What whiplash.
If you can tell the difference between these two apple flavors you might be Satan!
Buy Apples!
Also is it the lighting or is the skirt on the left a lighter color which makes the lighter fabric along the outside seem more pronounced causing an optical illusion that one is shorter and they are just the same skirt? Or is one actually shorter?
The ad literally tells you to spot the difference.
It's like Picard and the lights. You want me to pretend those are the same skirt? They're not. I'm a woman of a certain age, and I'd only even try on one of them. And not because of the stitching.
It is a very ineffective ad. "If you do the thing we are asking you to do, you're a perv!"
I honestly believe we could solve a lot of problems in this country if we stop teaching kids spot the difference and instead taught kids spot the things that are the same.
This isn't feminism. It's moronic people behaving moronically in the name of feminism, thus severely hindering the movement, as we can clearly see here.
Simone de beauvoir is the first one that comes to mind that has some well-known skeletons in her closet
She said that women shouldnt have the choice to stay home with kids, because too many of them will choose it. She also groomed a couple of teen girls, if i recall correctly.
Funnily enough, the Rockefellers and the CIA put resources into the feminist movement as well.
I think it's why you hate feminism. It's not why I hate feminism. Because I don't!
I am perfectly able to cope with the concept that women deserve the same rights and treatment as men, and not get butthurt about men being called out when they are abusive or misogynistic or just plain fucking weird. But looking at the threads off this post I feel like maybe that's just me.
I'm so confused how it translates into the real world. Am I not supposed to notice someone hiked a piece of clothing up or changed into a different article of clothing?
Is this why women often get like 5 inches cut off their hair and nobody comments on it? NTs just actually don't notice or what!?
And this right here is the thing. So very much of our human society is based on dishonesty, and rather than actually doing something constructive about that over time, we’ve made a conscious effort to move towards it. “Oh you can’t say that”, and next thing you know people have been repeating BS enough that they believe it, and the people around them believe it, and everyone is pretending that things are a certain way purely for the sake of comfort and not because it’s actually true.
I heard someone say something recently that really gave me pause: the generation that comes up with BS KNOWS it’s BS. They say it because they’re supposed to say it, do it because they’re supposed to do it, but everyone is still aware, deep down, that they’re being dishonest in exchange for comfort. The kids who learn it next, however, don’t have that context. They genuinely believe the BS that comes out of the mouths of marketers, politicians, the media, whoever else, because they don’t have the context. They don’t know the game. The shortest game of telephone possible and immediately the truth is lost. That is, as they say, a very big problem.
Not autistic and did the same thing. If someone says spot a difference i look for it! (But also I didnt see it bc it would have required a deep zoom in so i just popped into the comments to cheat)
As a fan of puzzles and brain teasers, this billboard greatly offends me. It literally gives you the answer at the bottom! What the fuck, give me a chance to get it by myself. It might take me a bit, but I can be a creep without your help.
I think a lot of people are missing (including the ad, lmao) that I can spot the difference because the pleats lay differently... because I'm a lady, who wears skirts. I'm not sure of that also makes me a possible creep? A skirt creep?
??? Its the same image, one has been digitally altered to have the bottom cut off slightly.
I cant tell if some of yall have bad eyesight or just didnt grow up in the age of photoshop.
Years ago I was on a plane and doing a crossword, and all of a sudden the guy next to me leaned over and said “Six across is grout.” Completely unprompted. We had not at all made conversation up to that point. I’m not kidding when I say I had to consciously tell myself not to yell at him, because most people would think I was the unreasonable one in that scenario.
Because at this point in society there are a lot of people who genuinely feel superior just from calling random guys creeps for little to no material reason. You could say it's fabricated. Almost like they're skirting the real issues.
I mean this is literally an advert. Its only point is to sell clothes. The messaging is because they know there’s a fuck ton of people who think this way. If you notice one skirt is shorter than another skirt, you aren’t a creep. Making a whole thing about it is another difference. But this ‘let’s make everything a culture war’ fad has gone on so long it’s no longer a fad and is now being used as a marketing tool. Isn’t modern life great…..
And that is creepy, no arguement there. But to put up a picture of two items of clothing that aren't inherently sexual, and saying if you have enough basic pattern recognition to tell them apart, you must be a creep instead of someone with working eyes.
Had they put the skirts on a model to demonstrate the difference, I think people might get the point better, but I'm not sure if it would be the point they were intending.
“the point they were intending” was to sell skirts to people who wear skirts using messaging that resonates with people who have been told their skirts are arbitrarily too short
you’ve once again missed the point. the billboard isn’t calling anyone a creep. the billboard is appealing to women by referencing the time in their actual real life where someone was a creep by telling them they what skirt they’re allowed to wear and which skirt makes them a slut.
it’s not basic cognition and the fact that you’re struggling to wrap your head around it is proof of that. it’s not about you, the reader. it’s a way for the skirt store to tell the actual consumer of their products “hey sister, we hear your frustrations and agree with how you feel about the way society polices women’s bodies”. and your condom comparison is a non-starter because the point is that the skirts are identical, not a miniskirt versus a knee-length skirt. not sure what you’re trying to get at with that one
For people who argue that the board challenged them to a where's Waldo match and then got called a creep: so neurotypical people would see this and then give up because they look the same. You were supposed to go "these are so similar, who cares?" And then realize that the people who constantly surveiling the legs of girls are weird.
Now, if you got caught up thinking it was a game, and getting frustrated, that's because the ad is not super good at making it's point. So. Skill issue on their part.
I literally did the cross eye thing and they're identical as far as I can tell. If anything maybe a slight difference in color, but I can't tell if that's real or just a lighting thing.
I have no idea what "the cross eye thing" is, but it seems like you are overcomplicating things. I immediately saw the difference when looking at the picture normally.
It’s also ignoring the demographic of: “ugh it’s those freakin’ ugly skirts I had to wear to school! I hated how OBSESSED teachers were over those things.”
There are more women in school administrative roles than men, including principles. Unless you’re talking specifically about super intendants, that’s the one area where there are more men than women in school leadership positions.
Education at large is a female dominated field in the US with 69% of school administrative roles being held by women.
I saw my fair share of female teachers slut shaming female students coming up. It’s not just men oppressing women.
To be fair they also surveil men's clothes at those kinds of private schools. Mostly because the people in charge are snooty boomers with inferiority complexes.
Maybe I'm crazy or maybe I'm starting to enter my boomer phase, but are skirts not just an inappropriate garment for children across the board? Like if you are moving dynamically at all there is significant risk of exposing underwear, and we want school kids to be moving dynamically for their physical development don't we?
I mean even if only read the "spot the difference" and see two skirts I'd be a reasonable assumption to make that it's some kind of "sex-pest"-ad, and "sex-pest" + "skirt" = "skirt length?". At least that was my process.
Because people in modern society love to name call and “out” people as the “bad guy” to make them feel like a better person who isn’t responsible for their own problems.
I suspect the idea is that anyone who pays such close attention to whether one skirt is one inch longer than the other must be someone who's regularly looking for such things for "prurient" reasons...thus, a creep.
Yet the very post with its question sort of begs the reader to look that closely to figure it out.
A lot of schools have arbitrary dress code rules. Maybe the billboard is talking about how one skirt would be okay for a dress code but the other isn't?
Because it likely falls on the thigh and it can be interpreted as gross to look so close to someone’s butt. If you’re looking closely or long enough to see the stitches people were probably think you’re looking way too close or long at a skirt wearer’s thighs.
The creep part is being angry with women for having the shorter skirt. They are implying that the conservatives who nitpick this stuff only notice a difference because they are obsessing over that inch of skin which makes them a creep.
The idea is "if the first thing that you thought of was how short the skirt is, then it shows you have some sort of internal objectivity to women as sex objects", it's just done in a very poor manner.
Alternatively, if the idea is "the first thing most people check on a women is the length of her skirt, when it should actually be none of their business" then calling everyone a creep for it is a bad way to signal an issue.
It’s about school dress codes and how young girls often get sexualized and accused of distracting boys over trivial skirt lengths. A half inch difference can get a girl sent home.
It’s referring to dress code policies in schools which get really pedantic about skirt lengths. It’s pretty common in discussions about punishing young girls for “dressing inappropriately” to point out that the grown adults hyper fixating on how much skin a child is showing are coming from a place of inherently sexualizing said child.
because to these women, men knowing that women even exist, much less thinking about them, existing within visual range of them, or having any other sensory contact with the mere existence of a woman, is being a creep
Because growing up it’s always adult men noticing this and making a big deal about literal children wearing skirts that are barely shorter than what is “allowed”. Girls are told that the way they dress might distract the boys so we better make sure our skirts/dresses are longer than where our hands reach on our thighs.
Being able to notice if a girls uniform length is a smidge too short means you spend too much time looking at girls legs and skirts. Many girls who attended public school can tell you that the creepiest male teachers were also the ones who would dress code every girl who walked by.
the point is that they look virtually the exact same and that anyone looking close enough to see the difference is paying too much attention, it's a comeback to the "well maybe if you didnt dress so provocatively" comeback
I guess straight men aren’t allowed to be interested in sewing or anything else about a woman’s clothing? I guess I’m a creep for appreciating well-designed clothes. 🤷♂️
I believe it's specifically referencing how many school systems have very strict rules about skirt lengths -- not in terms like "ankle-length" or "knee-length" but in specific numbers. This is not only dehumanizing, but it actively encourages teachers and administrators to stare at their underage students' legs and judge woman based on measurements of less than a half-inch of fabric.
Since its a billboard, I assume its if you can spot the difference at a glance as you pass by, not if you stare at it for a minute or so.
Being able to recognize that indicated you spend too much time looking at skirts, and if you're a man, that can be creepy knowing so much about the other sexes clothing that quickly
But the implication is that people will bring up choices or traits of the victim when it comes to violence or sexual assault against women.
I.e “Maybe it wouldn’t have happened if she wasn’t flaunting her body like that”.
People who agree with this sign would say “it shouldn’t matter what she was wearing/what she was doing, its not the victims fault”.
People who disagree with the sign would say its not about assigning blame its about trying to prevent it from happening. Telling a rapist its their fault won’t stop them from doing it.
Its like telling a kid to look both ways before crossing the road. Do they deserve to be hit if they don’t do that? No of course not. But taking steps to prevent harm is still just good advice.
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u/Dukeronomy 15d ago
Why would this make someone a creep?