Inappropriate Advertising on the Site

[roubaixtuesday]

This banner

Spoiler: Inappropriate content

With this link. I haven't followed it for obvious reasons.

Don't know what, if anything, can be done to avoid this sort of odious sexism.

https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net...MIh8ahlaKq-AIVJkfBCh0FWQiGEAEYASAAEgLy0_D_BwE

 

[classic33]

Dismiss the advert and you'll be asked why. You shouldn't see it again.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Dismiss the advert and you'll be asked why. You shouldn't see it again.

Not for my personal benefit, more how to avoid the site funding and promoting misogyny.

 

[Threevok]

Dismissing it doesn't work. Neither does reporting it (to AdChoices)

There's a couple of different ones, all on the same theme of dodgy photos

 

[classic33]

These are two of the pictures from the link given,

And for balance

 

[nickb]

Aren't these ads 'curated' specifically for the person that sees them based on the copious data that Google holds about them?

If you've seen an ad that you deem inappropriate, maybe ask yourself what you've previously searched for or clicked on that might suggest that it's of interest to you

 

[Tom...]

Just use an Ad Blocker browser extension and it won't bother you

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Just use an Ad Blocker browser extension and it won't bother you

It isn't about what bothers me.

It's whether a cycling site should be financing misogynist adverts.

 

[Alex321]

It isn't about what bothers me.

It's whether a cycling site should be financing misogynist adverts.

The cycling site doesn't actually get to choose what adverts are displayed.

And they certainly aren't financing them - in fact it is the reverse, this site is funded (at least in part) by advertising revenue.

I'm not even sure it really classes as misogynist either, although the photo you linked to could be classed that way, the photos on the site linked to are of a variety of "fails" relating to all genders/races etc. That particular photo is of a particularly poor piece of cycling kit design for (IIRC) the Columbian women's team.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I'm not even sure it really classes as misogynist either

I think using cycling kit with women's genitals printed on the front as clickbait advertising is most definitely misogynist.

 

[Tom...]

As above, the Ad's nothing to do with CycleChat.

Use an Ad Blocker if it bothers you (which it clearly does).

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Use an Ad Blocker if it bothers you (which it clearly does).

As explained at least twice above, the point is not about what bothers me, or any other individual.

The Ad does, whether we like it or not, have to do with CycleChat, as CycleChat is being used as a vehicle for misogyny.

It's about the normalising of misogyny, specifically on a cycling site, an activity which itself has a long and inglorious history of such.

Hope that helps, at risk of being repetitive.

 

[Alex321]

I think using cycling kit with women's genitals printed on the front as clickbait advertising is most definitely misogynist.

That kit was genuine .
It didn't actually have genitals printed on the front, it just looked like that from certain angles and certain lighting. It raised quite a furore when it was released and used in 2014 ( I was right in recalling it was the Columbian women's team - I didn't realise it was that long ago).

https://road.cc/content/news/130207...eam-show-little-more-they-bargained-revealing
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2014/09/16/nude-cycling-uniforms/15707777/
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/rep...ing-colombian-womens-cycling-kit-controversy/

 

[roubaixtuesday]

That kit was genuine .

And genuinely misogynist!

 

[Profpointy]

And genuinely misogynist!

It presumably wasn't mysogenistic, as it likely wasn't intended to convey pretend nudity.

It was a bad design certainly.